Florida Weave Trellis

The florida weave method goes up fast and uses everyday supplies you might already have around the yard.

Florida weave trellis.

On this week s episode travis explains the easy florida weave trellis technique for tomatoes. This method is known as the florida weave. There are also determinate slicing tomatoes like mountain pride and celebrity that are popular with commercial growers that are compatible with florida weave. If you want a cheap and easy way to trellis your tomatoes even the unwieldy indeterminate plants forget cages.

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. A better way to trellis tomatoes. The basket weave or florida weave is a common way to stake field tomatoes. But i ll also share with you the alternate method as well.

There are two ways to use this method. I m also going to share with you a cheap homemade approach to creating a trellis for your cucumbers and squash too. 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 method of trellising tomato plants by mike dunton.

When setting up the florida weave trellis you will need t posts wooden stakes and gro tie garden twine. Staking is important to reduce fruit rots sunscald and foliar diseases. To set up this trellis technique start by placing a t posts on either each end of the row and add wooden stakes. There are many methods that you can employ for keeping your tomato plants off of the ground.

This is the same technique farmers use.