Gardeners know that tomatoes must be tied up, otherwise the weight of the fruit will bend the plants towards the ground, which will lead to their deformation and the harvest itself will suffer.
Also, fruits that touch the ground are more susceptible to pest attack.
There are several options for tying up tall varieties of tomatoes.
Stakes
Prepare stakes and twine at the rate of 1 support per 1 bush. The stakes should be 20-25 cm higher than the bush.
This way, you can then tie new shoots to them.
Frame
To do this, you will need a prism or a cone. You can make the structure yourself or buy it in a store.
Drive the frame into the ground and tie the bushes to it. However, if there are a lot of bushes, then you will need more frames, and this is expensive.
Shpaler
Stick the spears into the ground and stretch the twine between them. The tomato stems are passed between several strands of twine.
When growing tomatoes in greenhouse conditions, a vertical trellis is suitable. The structure is made in the same way, but the twine threads are tied vertically to the bushes so that the plants do not touch the ground.
Net
The material should be 2 meters long. It is stretched between the rows. Then the bushes need to be tied to the net with twine.
As the tomatoes continue to grow, they can be tied higher.
