Greenhouse: Crickets Greenhouses 2007, 0 by CricketsGarden

CricketsGarden wrote:
An easy way to trellis your tomato plants that are in EBs is to set up a clothes line method.
Just like in the old days when women had to hang their clothes out to dry on a clothes line.
Make it as long as you need it. Set your EB under the clothes line. Tie a long string with string to spare to the bottom of your tomato vine and twist that string around the vine to the tip and run on up to the clothes line, tie it off like slip knot. A Knot that can be easily untied when your tomato vines reach the clothes line it self. Then you can untie the string and lower the vine down and retie the string again.
I keep the main vine and trim all the other sucker vines off as it grows taller. A sucker will grow in the each leaf joint and they get cut off when they are about 2-3 inches long.
As the vine grows taller, I wrap the vine around the string. The new tomato growth at the top of the vine is flexible but tender to break. Do it carefully.

Hopefully you can see the string wrapped around the tomato vine in this picture. These tomato vines are approximately 6 inches apart from each other.