Florida Weave Trellis

If you want a cheap and easy way to trellis your tomatoes even the unwieldy indeterminate plants forget cages.

Florida weave trellis.

To set up this trellis technique start by placing a t posts on either each end of the row and add wooden stakes. You can review the basket information by clicking here. When setting up the florida weave trellis you will need t posts wooden stakes and gro tie garden twine. 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.

The basket weave or florida weave is a common way to stake field tomatoes. This is the same technique farmers use. There are two ways to use this method. Staking is important to reduce fruit rots sunscald and foliar diseases.

There are also determinate slicing tomatoes like mountain pride and celebrity that are popular with commercial growers that are compatible with florida weave. There are many methods that you can employ for keeping your tomato plants off of the ground. I m also going to share with you a cheap homemade approach to creating a trellis for your cucumbers and squash too. I ll share with you the process we prefer and why.

This method is known as the florida weave. The florida weave method goes up fast and uses everyday supplies you might already have around the yard. On this week s episode travis explains the easy florida weave trellis technique for tomatoes. 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.

But i ll also share with you the alternate method as well.