Training Tomato Plants With Rope

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My husband has constructed raised beds for our backyard garden and we use rope to train the tomato plants instead of tomato cages. I have used cages in the past, but they get ruined and really I just don't like them much. So we found an alternative by using ropes hung from a beam above the plants to train them.
Start with some fun colored rope, you can use plain if you wish, but I like the colorful ones to make an easy way to train your tomato plants.
I used 4 different colors of Canvas Corp Rope including Hot Pink, Lime Green, Grey, and Yellow, but there are so many options to make your garden fun and colorful!
You create an "A frame" over your planter to hang the ropes on to and let them hang down.
The you wind the ropes around the plants to give them stability, this eliminates the need fort the wire tomato trainers. As the plant grow just keep training them around the rope to keep them stable.
For the past 2 years we have used this method and it works great always using the rope that you buy at the local big box garden store.  This year I thought it would be fun to shakes things up a bit and use my Canvas Corp Rope in some fun bright colors to train our plants.  So that is exactly what we did!! 
In the video I show you how to assemble the rope around the tomatoes, and also how the plants grow with the rope over time.
Suggested materials:
  • Rope   (canavs corp brands)
  • Tomato plants   (home depot)
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  • Cynthia Cynthia on Oct 12, 2019

    I love it !!

  • Sparklediamnod Sparklediamnod on Apr 13, 2020

    I have been planting tomatoes and a few other things, but the last couple of years they have not been doing good. I am 83 years old and cant get up and down like I use to. BUT---this seems like something I can do more easely. I have thought of it before but this year I will be trying out your planting ideas. Thank you for sharing.

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