Florida Weave Trellis

You ll need a different trellis system like concrete wire cages if you re growing indeterminate slicers like better boy or cherokee purple as they keep getting taller and taller.

Florida weave trellis. There are many methods that you can employ for keeping your tomato plants off of the ground. If you want a cheap and easy way to trellis your tomatoes even the unwieldy indeterminate plants forget cages. A better way to trellis tomatoes. This method is known as the florida weave.

This is the same technique farmers use. Florida weave method of trellising tomato plants by mike dunton. If you use wooden stakes think about using metal stakes every four or five stakes to make the trellis stronger or at least for end posts. You can review the basket information by clicking here.

The florida weave method goes up fast and uses everyday supplies you might already have around the yard. Staking is important to reduce fruit rots sunscald and foliar diseases. There are two ways to use this method. When setting up the florida weave trellis you will need t posts wooden stakes and gro tie garden twine.

I ll share with you the process we prefer and why. To set up this trellis technique start by placing a t posts on either each end of the row and add wooden stakes. But i ll also share with you the alternate method as well. Along with the method described on this page we also use tomato baskets here on the farm.

There are also determinate slicing tomatoes like mountain pride and celebrity that are popular with commercial growers that are compatible with florida weave.