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Tamzi · #15 08-11-2009, 03:53 AM

Tomatos, those red ripe fruits we tend too purchase from the store without any thought. well thats what i used too do untill Now.

as you have read this is my first year growing a small greenhouse budget grow. most of what i had learnt was as a kid growing the cannabis seeds we found in our smoke. fast forward 20 years its today.

Moneymaker a very popular hierloom tomato grown in the uk a very heavy yielding plant. sounds awesome dont it ?, yeah i thought the same nice small tomatos, oh oh how i was so wrong.

my green garden STICKS have done the job and it is time for me too build a bigger and better climbing frame for my plants. three 8FT garden canes sunk into soil about a good two foot deep and around 1 - 2 feet apart. another 4 canes 4 foot in length are used as horizontal braces.

1hour later in 91F temps, im shattered a job that would take ten mins took an hour. working inside the greenhouse had cooked me alive but my master piece was finnished. Another hour and i had tied all the tomato's up too the horizontal canes and stood back.

the break was short as i started too prune up the plants on thier new climbing frame and turned my mind too the Roma tomato's. These too had been overcome by gravity a few leaders had bent and some had split. the same had happened on the moneymakers and i was worrying. could i loose the fruit too a stupid beginers mistake, leaving the fruit too get too heavy for the plant too cope. Only time will tell now.

one old plastic carrier bag was used too tie canes too each other. my canes came held together with these plastic bag type ties, so i made myself some and they worked a treat. any growers that have a wife or girlfriend will know they wear nylon/cotton tights. the also work wonders for holding up those nice heavy tomato vines as you may notice. being soft then can be used too make a sling too hold the stems of the vines and too thold the main stalk too the canes. when fixing stalk too cane i ALWAYS use a figure 8 tie, this allows the tights too stretch as the stalk swells and grows.

So you have read the wall of text and still can make no head nore tale from it. well picture speak a thousand words my grandad always said. so take a butchers at these.

feel free too ask any questions.

Tamzi