NEW WAY to Plant Tomatoes in Your Garden!

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Tim shares an innovative new way to plant your tomato plants that gives them the water they need as well as great support while they grow. Each spot holds 4 tomato plants!

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There are better instructional material to assist you to grow wonderful home grown tomatoes like Cherokee Purple or Brandywine. . hint, hint 8 hr of sunlight, 36+ inches between plants , a 25 cent plant placed into a two dollar hole! A two dollar hole is a hole 24 inches across 18 inches deep filled with 1/3 ea compost , old cow manure , local soil.. You will need a serious support system , over 6ft tall. Good ones are not cheep . I am cheep so I use 36inch rebar pounded down with dryed bambo poles .. Drill out the first band and stick the rebar into..... heck you can figure it out ! !! Much of the fun in gardening is improvising!!

Did you have any problem with overcrowding? Possibly more disease due to lack of air flow? Were they hard to prune suckers from?

What a good idea.

thats also a good way too grow pot . it keeps it nice and moist and keeps them hardy during the dry time of year

4 tomato plants inside one cage... how was yield and did the 4 plants crowd each other for light and space?
Thank you
Joe

Very cool.... What about placing the lids on those buckets, too - to reduce evaporation?

I prefer 6in. by 6in. concrete wire 6ft. tall i can reach in and grab ripe tomatoes..

Great idea!

Tim, you can use 3/4" rebar for posts, tie them to your fence with wire twist ties like they use in concrete work.

Cool idea! How did the season end up?

Just do the Florida weave down each row.

I m trying this method. Thanks

what do you do with the mosquitos problem?

nice idea.

I really like the way you used the buckets and wire to hold your plants up..some of my plants are enduring extreme winds that would be a great solution..

Looks like a great idea, thanks ... we will give it a try.

Are they married?

would been nice to see a follow up video, seeing the Plants at full size, so we can see if this concept works

Awesome!!! Thanks man, love your videos!!!

Did this for the first time this year but using 36G garbage cans (less than $10 at a big box) Got five plants around each one, and they're growing better than they ever have before in our garden and the can holds enough water for two or three days (and we put a cup of bone meal and ag lime in each plant hole, along with a bag of composted steer manure in the bottom of the can for fertilizer), it filters through and no blossom end rot! Finally we're going to have a full crop of tomatoes without all the fuss! Wish I had seen this method sooner, but better late than never! (zone 8b, SW WA)