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Vertical Gardening Tomatoes

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Welcome to my article Vertical Gardening Tomatoes!
This article below is going to be jam packed full of great content to help you get off to the start, you have been looking for!
No stone has been unturned!
Yes, I have added a video, transcription, article and reference links to even more really great articles,
picked by me!
There are also links to more video resources too!

Truthfully I am 100% certain that by the time you finish up here you will literally not need to go anywhere else to gather information about growing vertical Tomatoes!
Actually, let me give you a word of advice!  If you are not growing these guys straight up the you are more tan likely doing it wrong!
Unless you are growing them upside down and that's a whole other article!


How To Support Vertical Tomatoes!

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Okay, if you didn't watch the video above and prefer to read articles here is the transcription for the video below!

Photo right: Mmmmm home grown is best!  You too, can grow them just like this if you really want to!

I want to talk to you about how I’m getting my tomatoes “state” this year. I used to use these guys in tomato cages and I said, “I’m tired of them… off they go!” For I have to think about some new ways to do my tomatoes, and this really isn’t really that new, there’s a lot of expert gardeners that train their tomatoes up-string or they twine string around the tomatoes.

Here’s what I’m using to get my tomatoes trained this season. Let’s go over it, I’m using half inch conduit, I’m using 12 gauge wire, I’m using tomato clips, you can get this anywhere. I got mine at Johnny Seeds.
You need a good drill bit and you’ll need one of these T guides, this is a 3 quarter to a half inch T. let’s go over what we did. We bought for each of these. We bought 4 ten foot half inch pieces of this conduit. I cut 3 of the down to 6 feet, remember they are threaded.

I then bought an elbow joint. This elbow joint enabled me to screw in the 10 foot piece across the top to the 6 foot piece going vertically. I could’ve done 2, one I either end, but with this10 foot span I was concerned about the weight in the middle, so I wanted something to support it.

So that’s where the T comes in, because it is 3 quarters to a half, it fit nicely over this half inch pipe. And then I screwed in my third piece right into half inch at the bottom. That T piece enabled me to have that middle support bar. Next, I wanted something for the tomatoes to be trained up using those tomato clips.

For that we bought some 12 gauge wire. I drove a hole in the pipe, wrap the wire through,  secured it to the ground using landscape fabric clips, and I’m just clipping the tomatoes up as they grow. This is letting me train my tomatoes to go nice and vertical. I can also keep them pruned much easier. 

As the tomatoes continue to grow I clip them about every 18 inches. I put about 7 tomatoes along my 10 foot span and it cost me around 50 dollars to do each of these. I’ve done two. I also did the third one and I’m growing my cucumbers on that. Try it at your own garden I thinks it’s going to work pretty well.




Video Resource Links For Extra Tips

  • Growing Single Stem Tomatoes Vertically in a Square foot Garden
  • Growing Tomatoes Vertically in Containers
  • 15 Ways You Can Cage Stake Or Trellis Your Tomato Plants
  • Best Tomato Cages 
  • How To Grow Tomatoes on a Trellis
  • Put Tomato Plants on a String Trellis

Growing Vertical Tomatoes Resource links From Blogs and Websites!

  • Growing Tomato Tips From Don Bourke and Bourkes Backyard
  • Growing Tomatoes by Gardening Australia 

Grow Tomatoes Straight Up To Save Space!

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_Below I have added an article provided by E-how!  It's quite basic but if you mix together this plan with other material found in the videos and resource links you will be growing killer Tom's before you know it!
Hopefully you will be able to grow so much you will be able to make sauces, dips and give some out to friends, neighbors and family!

Photo right:  This guy would really need to go in a larger pot (container) to be more productive!

Tomatoes come in two main types: indeterminate and determinate. Determinate varieties grow in a bush formation, spreading out across the ground. Indeterminate species can be trained to grow straight up, with fruit-producing vine offshoots. To grow vertical tomatoes, you need to buy indeterminate tomato varieties. Vertical tomato plants can produce healthy, heavy crops of juicy tomatoes every season.


    •  Buy tomato seeds. Choose vining or indeterminate tomato species such as Early Cascade, Gardener's Delight or Red Pear, rather than bush varieties such as Baxter's Bush Cherry or Balconi Red.

    • Select a patch for your tomatoes. The area needs at least six hours of unfiltered sunlight every day. If you live in a cold weather area, consider growing your tomatoes in containers in a greenhouse.

    • Set up a trellis on your growing patch. Buy one from your garden center, or make one using planks of wood and garden canes. Choose a trellis with sturdy end supports, a long central top beam and wires or strings stretched vertically between the top beam and a ground-level lower beam.

    • Start your tomato plants off indoors. Purchase a seed tray and fill each pot with quality compost or potting soil. Place a seed in each pot. Water lightly every day until the plants reach a few inches in height. Transfer to 4-inch pots.

    • Relocate your tomato seedlings to your outdoor patch. Use a dibber to gently pry out the plant with roots intact. Dig a hole right next to the bottom of one of the trellis wires. Insert the tomato plant, leaving a gap of 1 foot between plants. Lightly curl the stem around the wire -- but don't force it. The plant will grow naturally around the line.

    • Water daily with a spray nozzle. Keep the soil damp at all times. If you allow the soil to dry out, then apply a heavy watering, the tomatoes will split.

    • Allow four to six vines to grow from the main stem. Clip off other shoots that appear. Try to leave a gap of at least 6 inches between each pair of vines, with an equal balance on each side.

    • Feed the plant with fertilizer every week or two. Use a high-potash solution. Your plants should grow vertically, in line with the trellis wire.
    • View original article here!



Marty's Tomato Tips!

A lot has been covered within this page, but I would like throw in my very own two bob's worth!  You see, maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anyone mention about fungus and disease.  You really must allow plenty of space to circle the plant to keep fungus at bay!  Fungus, molds thrive in humidity so, all ow the air to circulate freely!
Also, plant their friends alongside and below such as Parsley and Sweet Basil!  These guys are the perfect companions for Tomatoes and keep disease well away!
If you wish to know more about companion planting and I recommend that you do check out this great book by the well respected and loved Jackie French!
Jackie French's Guide to Companion Plan

The Right Way to Prune Tomatoes

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How to Prune Tomato Plants. This is the question?

There are a wide range of ways of how to prune your beloved Tomato plant.  Many would say there is only one way, but this is probably the best way for them, or serves the best purpose in their set out desire on what they wish to establish and achieve. 

Here we will provide you with a wide range of pruning tomato styles to help you choose one that is suitable for your garden and lifestyle.
Also remember to watch the videos and click on the blue resource links for more great content from other Authors!

Click here to visit the page How To Prune Tomato Plants


How to Grow Tomatoes in Pots

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"Welcome to Growing Tomatoes in Pots"
What a lovely past time!  If you ever tried growing these tasty little fruits in a container, but had no success well you are in the right place!
I have been applying this form of container gardening for years.
So, what I have done is compiled a load of my very own content and tips and then scoured the web for the best resources available.  Get ready, because this is going to awesome!
Yes, I get a little excited, but that just shows how passionate I really am!

Click here to visit the page Growing Tomatoes In Pots


Delicious Tomato Recipes

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Welcome to my webpage Tasty Tomato recipes!
Hopefully by now you have gone right through this website and educated yourself on how to grow tomatoes in pots!Or followed other suggestions that we have provided!
Myself I absolutely love the tasty Tom, not only for its health benefits, but also to grow at home so I can cook all these really tasty dishes.
Yes' The Potted Vegetable Garden has expanded out and we are now more than just a gardening website.

Click here to visit the page Tasty Tomato Recipes


Eating Tomato Healthy Benefits

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Welcome to the Article the Benefits Of Eating Tomato!

Below you will find a wide range of content for you to find out all you need to know about this wonderful fruit and how it can benefit your health in a very positive way!

Read below and you will find plenty of resource links to high credible sources, both video and webpages.  I do recommend that after opening a link you return back to this page to keep devouring all the content available.

Click here to visit the page Benefits of Eating Tomato


_Please Share Some Garden Info Love!

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_Please do me a huge favour and share some Garden info love!  I am quite sure there would be many who would love access to content just like this!
I searched the web high and low for the best content available about this subject  and this webpage is just like a mini course on its own.
So, please pass it on to others at your favourite website or Facebook and Twitter!
Also please remember to bookmark and follow the blog via RSS feed as there is always plenty on the way!
Happy Gardening Marty




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