Tomatoes and ties

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Tomatoes and ties
« on: June 09, 2011, 12:30 »
Instead of using rope or wire to tie tomatos to the poles i tried this time turn them around the poles during growing  :wub: like french beans  :D

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #1 on: June 09, 2011, 12:39 »
And?
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #2 on: June 09, 2011, 12:40 »
Tried that once, they were okay until top got heavy and they unwound!  :(

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #3 on: June 09, 2011, 12:44 »
some of my tom stems are so sturdy this year, that you couldn't wind them around anything! I have seen them grown up strings before though.

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #4 on: June 09, 2011, 12:55 »
Tried that once, they were okay until top got heavy and they unwound!  :(

You could have tied them up to stop them unwinding.

Oh hang on - that defeats the purpose.

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #5 on: June 09, 2011, 13:44 »
Old nylon stockings or tights pulled tight and cut into 1" lengths with kitchen scissors make excellent soft tom ties , you can loop two or more pieces together for tying long branches up.

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #6 on: June 09, 2011, 14:06 »
At moment all going good enough, but no idea when tomatoes will appear  :blush:

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #7 on: June 09, 2011, 14:07 »
It's going to be hard winding the stems around poles when they start to thicken up. You're more likely to snap them.

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #8 on: June 09, 2011, 14:43 »
winding around little by little, when they are growing, so will looks like french beans

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #9 on: June 09, 2011, 17:45 »
If the stalks are not kept fairly straight (or supported from above) they collapse with the heavy crop of toms.
If the stem is spring shaped it will act like one but only in the downward direction, no bounce back up!

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #10 on: June 09, 2011, 18:01 »
The 'spiralling' tomato plant stems will of course be much more supportive if you ensure that when you force them to spiral round the poles you do so in an anti-coreolis direction so the tendency to straighten up will to some extent be countered by the coreolis effect force, albeit very weakly.

Or is the theory that you should make sure they are not in a counter-coreolis direction?

Possibly one of the two theories is right, or at least has elements of rightness somewhere in there, but probably neither.

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #11 on: June 09, 2011, 18:09 »
Why not just plant them upside down and let gravity sort it out. :closedeyes:
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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2011, 23:36 »
So... sounds like you want me to get some stockings  :D

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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #13 on: June 10, 2011, 00:12 »
Not as such...
Any soft material will do. I use brown garden twine. My plot neighbours use bits of old material.
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Re: Tomatoes and ties
« Reply #14 on: June 10, 2011, 00:16 »
Old nylon stockings or tights pulled tight and cut into 1" lengths with kitchen scissors make excellent soft tom ties , you can loop two or more pieces together for tying long branches up.

Well done that person!!!!

It is the bees' knees in recycling and the best soft, stretchy material for keeping tomatoes tied to canes or stakes.

My mother has made tomato ties this way for years.
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