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    Forum: TomatoesReplies: 19, Views: 818
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    Sparks42
    Lexington, NC (Zone 7a)

    June 16, 2003 1:51 AM

    Post #556476

    Hi all,

    I was asked to post this with a photo. It is my way of staking tomatoes. I don't like using on stake going down through the roots so I use four stakes made from rough cut oak lumber that I can very inexpensively and binders twine. I do not rap the twine around the four stakes, I find when I support the branches that way the weight of the tomatoes will either badly bend or break the branch. Now I run the twine between two stake on a diagonal keeping the branches growing upwards and the flowering buds inside the four stakes. So far it has worked well. I hope you can see the twine, a pointed oval.

    Sparks

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