Pruning Tomatoes on Cattle Panels
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Learn how we trellis our indeterminate tomatoes using cattle panels and t-posts. This economical and effective training method increased air flow, reduces disease pressure, looks beautiful and makes harvesting a snap because most of the fruit is right in front of the trellis. You can keep an eye on our tomato garden by streaming our monthly garden tours I post around the beginning of each month, or join me over on Instagram where I Story daily in and around the garden, giving informal garden tours.
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Thank you for the tip to prune on a dry breezy day!
Meg!!! Hola my friend... You should of seen my jaw drop when I seen the thumbnail... I thought you already had a bunch of ripening tomatoes!!! Hahaha.
Always love videos and thanks for the tip on pruning in the mornings. Never thought of the reason you mentioned. Your tomatoes are growing quick and looking nice my friend, crazy how time passes quick even if we don't feel it does or we only realize it when we are on this side of it passing.
Rodrigo Banuelos Gonzalez haha! Nope! That was last August. And sadly, I lost my costuloto genovese (both of them) to that late frost! Just a pretty thumbnail. It caught your eye, so did the trick. Lol!
@@SeedtoFork Ah, ok... I remember that. Well what you have growing looks fantastic! And that is for sure a pretty picture... but honestly, I would watch your videos regardless of the picture :)
Totally using cattle panels this year to trellis our tomatoes ! Thank you for this
Really great video, you covered a lot of aspects very clearly 👌
Meg! Everything looks so great! This was such a good video. I'm going to try the 3 leaders. I have the majority of my tomatoes on cattle panel, so hopefully, I'll get some success too.
Awesome! I hope it goes well. Finding the sneaky suckers in back is the hardest part! 😂Thank you!!
your video was GREAT .....exactally the info i needed !!! thank you so much !!!
Your pruning tips clearer than most. Thx. Did you ever try growing on back side alternating plants or planting a different vine, pole bean might be good since takes less space.
Great video, I'm trying this method this year instead of string twisting just for a change. Wondering if you ever tried just weaving the plant through the fence as it grows instead of tying them? Wondering if that would work.
Great video. I am guessing those Juliettes are indeterminate? I might have missed it. Well done.
Hi Meg!!! Thank you for your tutorial. It's just plain great...like always. I watched this a few times and am wondering about this scenario....what if a sucker got away and turns into a "leader" with buds and fruit forming. Do we trim off what would have been the "original" leader that was taken over by the sucker. We have trimmed our tomatoes way up from the bottom for several years and have had no disease when many other gardens were suffering from blight, etal. So...we know that works well. Also, mulching is great for preventing disease. How does this method work for the non-espalier growing methods like hoops. It's like a jungle at the Donation Garden!
the Donation Garden 2017 oh boy! So much to consider. Are there no supports at all right now? I am growing a few indeterminate tomatoes open grown and they have easily over half a dozen suckers fighting to be the leader. I started whacking down the youngest ones, keeping the older ones. And trimmed off the lower foliage a bit. And then I got overwhelmed and walked away.
Thank you so much for this helpful video! I want to try this in my garden this year. I love how you don’t have the cattle panel sitting on the ground! I am sure that helps with being able to get a hoe under there to weed! I have a couple questions, I see you have two rows of cattle panel close together, how close are the two rows? Also, how close do you plant your tomatoes along the cattle panel?
It also gives us more height for the trellis! I hope it works well for you this summer.
@@SeedtoFork Thank you! 😊
Hi there... I just had this thought to grow tomatoes on a cattle panel... searched Yt and watched this first... 2 questions... how far apart are your tomatoes, and did you do a double row, with it looks like 6-8" between the two rows? Would love to hear back, as I think I'd like to try this this year. Thanks for a great video!
Thanks for the great video Meg. Curious, you said you compost the twine. Are you worried about transferring disease if you reuse the twine?
Chad Raines that’s a great question. No, I think it’s more like by mid-September it’s a hot mess in the tomato garden and I use the fastest path from jungle to clean slate. But certainly one could painstakingly untie and reuse the twine.
Great video! Thank you for sharing. How far apart do you space the plants? We will be doing this method this year. Thanks so much.
30” on center. I offset them so that means 30” diagonally as well as along the same line. The rows end up being closer to 24” apart because of the diagonal line. Hope this makes sense!
how much space do you leave in between tomatoes on the cattle panel? thanks. great vid
28" minimum. Aim for 30" usually
How far did you plant the plant away from fence?
3rd year trellising tomatoes. First year I trellised up strings, BIG pain in the butt, 2nd year trellised up bamboo canes, still a pain in the butt. decided to try cattle panels this year.
I typically would space my plants 18" to 24" apart. Am not sure this would overcrowd a cattle panel.
Previously I would limit my plants to one or two leaders, I am thinking with the cattle panel I could go to three or more as the plant grows upwards.
Basic question, how much spacing do you leave between plants?
Hi Brian-I space them 30” apart on center and do two panels back to back. I train to 3 leader generally … it maybe sometimes gets a little wild on me in late august when I turn my back for a split second ….
Last year I had a total of 21 plants in ~34 linear feet of space that averages out to be about 19" apart. If I planted 30" apart that would limit me to 13 plants.
I canned 50 jars of tomatoes last year and would like to do the same if not more.
Why do you do back to back panels? Are you growing plants 30" apart on both sides?
How far do space each plant ???
I’m assuming you can do this with full size as well as cherry tomatoes. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
Hi- yes, these are all indeterminate tomatoes on this panel; it works the same for any type/size of tomato.
Hi Meg - just wondering if you had a incident in the past that has you sanitizing the pruners? Is there a horror story that inspired that practice?
Jamie Hinkle disease can easily spread from one plant to another while pruning unknowingly if you don’t clean your tools between plants, so it’s just one of my best practices. I also don’t use my hands for that same reason as I could be the vector, too.
Seed to Fork thanks Meg! You’re awesome. I’m new to your channel and love your techniques and philosophies.
I’ve been trellising for years but employ a different technique. Look for my post on Joe Gardeners Facebook group (the one that requires authorization to join).
Hi talk are your espalier frames ?
Samantha Bulloch 8 feet if I’m understanding your question correctly.