James you are the BEST gardening expert I’ve ever watched! You are INSPIRING and so full of LIFE! We enjoy you so much! And we adore Tuck! If you ever offer tours of your food forest we’d fly up to “Jersey” just to see it in person! Thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge! ❤ to Tuck!
Dude Tuck is an OG. I am really glad to see this channel flourish. I remember watching year 2 food forest updates when hardly any such thing was on YT. Much love and blessings brother
Your older bed you might want to replace the top board that holds the string rollers. I was using a 2x 12 as my top runner and after 4 years the weight of my tomato plants snapped the board in 2. This really sucked mid summer it was so hard to re do this when the plants weigh so much. Hopefully you do not have to go through this. Most of my plants didn't recover completely
I loved that you just got to the point and explained everything without making us feel like noobs and very clearly. Thank you. I've been using this method (for the most part) for my pole beans but I may give it a try with my 'maters. Quick question. Why not let the tomato only get as tall as the pole and then cut the growing tip off? Does this method produce much less fruit? I will usually let a new vine grow from the bottom when the plant isn't producing anymore and that gives me a new main vine. I sometimes even cut the original main vine off and start over (so to speak). What are your thoughts on this?
Im sorry for your loss, not to sound exclusive, only us who have had Yorkies know how special they are ,crazy little dogs but will always put a smile on your face
Growing traditional tomatoes this year at my mom's house, but really looking forward to growing tomatoes like this when I get my own place! I love the aesthetics of this, and it's effective too. Fingers crossed for a good growing season
Hi James! I love following along with you. Those tomato clips look like the ones I used on my grape vines. THEY DID NOT LAST ONE YEAR! They must not have been UV resistant and after a few months became brittle and started breaking. When I tried to remove them they would break and crumble. I hope the ones you have are better than the ones I had!
James you are a person of many talents!. You can tell that you are very good at detailed observation/ almost like a scientist, plus you are a meticulous carpenter and have keen engineering and efficiency skills that inform your gardening techniques. I know studying permaculture adds to those skills. Love seeing Tuck and you every time you post. Thanks so much! :)
Thank you James for all your knowledge and enthusiastic information! My husband, Doug and I LOVE ALL your videos🤩 We found your video on tomato clips and have loved them for these last 2 years. We have one difference though in that our garden pen had a fencing top about 2 ft wide and that is where the tomato vines grow. All the vines will lay and grow on top even the butternut squash! Also really help the heavy fruit to hang. This is just a welded wire. Again, thank you for ALL your education as we always learn something!
Love your channel! When I grow my indeterminant toms they always fruit much lower on the plant. They eventually grow over 7 feet, but so late in the season that they aren't flowering as much.
can't you just trellis in an arch? and get most of the benefit? I"m asking because I travel a lot and need the most minimal garden management ever. Putting in drip irrigation this weekend.
Tuck is a trooper, even tho it’s hot he makes himself comfortable by diggin his hole. Mine dog does the same thing when I’m in the garden for hours .. gotta have mama best friend by your side
Thank you for showing this up-close. We use cattle panels and wind the tomatoes in and out of the panels and trim lots off the bottom. We did 45 plants last year 😮
Great idea. Beautiful design. I'm on a fixed budget. I took the bench out of the adult swing I had. Used the frame & added garden netting for the tomatoes to climb. 4 years and still going great. Cost $10.50.
Thank you for sharing this and all your gardening wisdom. You're Awesome! I love your enthusiasm! I have about 50 various tomato plants in red solo-type cups, about to be needing transplanted. I'll be giving most of them away. But, i really enjoy getting them started. I have to grow in containers, due to gophers or groundhogs, and due to back problems. Next year, I'll be growing container friendly tomatoes in my new GreenStalk Vertical Towers. Go Tuck ❤❤❤
I learned about this style of trellising a 1 1/2 years ago from another youtuber. Though I much prefer the roller version and how you secure the end/soil attachment. Seriously love those clips, And they Seriously cheap.
Was the one clip of the huge tomato you cut off a mortgage lifter? I have one of those varieties and those things get huge. Any pointers on growing it? Love your vids. Love the information. Thank you
New subscriber, I've been watching for a few weeks and love the content. I only live a few minutes from you so your gardening timing and advise couldn't be any better
I heard about these a couple of years ago. I'll eventually get some because they look awesome, but I'm using the same concept, just with twine spooled on a stick that I release as required. Not quite as slick!
Love the tomato growing method, love the channel! I will say though, I've used very similar clips off of Amazon. Not sure if they were a cheaper plastic than what is shown here, but that's kind of the point, because with Amazon you never really know what you're getting. Regardless, as useful as they were for the season, by the end of the season the UV rays from the summer sun completely ruined them. As I tried to take them off they all basically crumbled and broke, leaving pieces of plastic all over my garden. I don't think anyone wants that...I was finding pieces of these things all over my beds through the next spring.
I have those same clips! Been using them to train my tomatoes and tomatillos on a 16'x4' cattle panel I have going down the middle of my two 4'x8' beds. I wanted to use the cattle panel as arch elsewhere next year. Now the hubby has another garden project to help me with next Spring! Also, I have some tomatoes in ground in separate area of our gardens. I did a sort or short version of the Florida weave. I'm 5'3" so trellises for some stuff has been a challenge! Definitely trying this next season! Thanks for sharing!
Zone 6b. Great minds think alike. I'll be planting Roma here and there. I think two stakes and lace string back and forth a few times giving a place for sucker support. You encourage us to think outside conventional wisdom. ❤ to Tuck. We will be using your pruning method again for our cucumbers. Thanks so much James.
Ordered some clips ❤❤❤ I've got some, but as many tomatoes as I grow, I need more. I'm trying the "trellis to make you jealous" this year. I hope this does better than stakes and cages. Wish me luck 🙏🤞
Oh, dear James, you and Tuck are so wonderful. There are other youtuber gardeners that I like to learn from, as well. But, you have such a lovely spirit that it's a special joy to watch and learn from you. Thank you.
James Prigioni I was wondering how you might deal with any of the number of pest that can be so devastating in the garden, slugs, tomato worms and such?
Your videos are so informative and you demonstrate and explain everything so clearly, you're an inspiration. Best gardening channel on RU-vid! And Tuck is the cutest pup.
I live in a coastal area and humidity is always a concern for me, stringing up my indeterminates greatly increases airflow and reduces powdery mildew. Maintenance is a breeze. (pun intended)
This year I tied a loose loop of twine around the base stem of my tomato plants instead of the wood and plastic clips. Worked great. I tried those plastic clip on my grapevines, the sun wore them out in a single season. I will never buy them again.
Those roller hooks are cool. Prohibitively expensive for me though. I think I'll just loop the top end of some tomato twine over a nail for each plant and unhook it to lower the plant. Maybe even leave some extra twine with another loop to hold up the plant at the lower height while i work on it. I try to keep my garden spending as close to zero as possible
The rollers are a super neat idea. I definitely need to get some of those! The plastic clips though are garbage. Bought some from Amazon and they catastrophically failed.
Your garden has impressed me again and again over the last three years that I've been following. Our little food forest is gowing more diverse each year, you have been a strong influence, and I love seeing Tuck! Your tall tomato system seems like the best way to grow healthy, simple to harvest tomatoes. Johnny Seeds sounds like the best option to me.
Just watched this video over the weekend and could not help but wonder if you are leaving those trellises in the same location, year after year, relocating them every year or every couple of years. Personally, I have moved where I grow my tomatoes every year & try not to have the in the same location even every other year.
Thank you so much James!! This information IS a game changer for me!! I’ve never known about tomato clips. Awesome, I’m going to order some supplies!! Thank you again. Always love to see Tucker in the garden.
Im in my 60's new to gardening got some great advice from you going to put it into action can you tell me what size of hooks do you use for the tomato roller thanks
Your videos are so fantastic. I love your designs too- Im making another one of your raised beds this week. Best gardening channel on youtube thank you for posting
I've used those tomato clips for a year now. They're great....however.....they become brittle and crumble in the weather. I live in Florida and our hot season (most of the year) is brutal on plastics.
James, I have been following you for about a year and have implemented a lot of your techniques with great improvement in my garden. I have been doing square foot gardening for 9 years now. I was wondering why you chose to build your trellis frames rather than using the conduit as suggested in the book. I have moved my conduit with corners to the middle of my garden boxes instead of the edges like I did previously by moving tye rebar and tied my strings to it this year to bend and drop it as it grows. I used staking last year, but my stakes could hardly support the weight of the indeterminate plants. Thanks again for all of your posts. I have really worked on learning companion planting this year and so far here in Utah zone 6B, I am getting lots of produce already. Last night I took advantage of my husbands clumsy hand planting where I asked him to put 9 seeds spots with 2 seeds each for the turnips. He scattered way too many seeds and I pulled all the extras leaving just the 9 desired plants and made turnip pesto out of the tender young turnip greens and put it on top of a still good baked spaghetti squash left from last season. So his mistaken attempts left us with a devine meal. There were plenty of leafy greens already available for a side salad using organic cucumbers from Costco as well since here in 6B my cukes just appeared out of the ground.
Идея с клипсами для крепления интересная. Будем пробовать альтернативные способы из подручных средств. В прошлом году я придумал использовать зажимы воздушных шаров для быстрого крепежа шнуров к кольям.
You make me love gardening bc you've shown me how to do it in a smaller but with bigger results. Last year i had 5 tomatoe plants that grew huge on this method. This year i planted 20 in the same location with fish parts. I can't wait to see the results. Thank you!
Great advice! I use my old gazebo to trellis most plants with mesh trellis' on the 2 sides, but THIS is a fantastic idea, I can do this on the front of the gazebo. Just in time, I was trying to figure out how to trellis my tomatoes. Thanks James!
Hey James. If you were gonna paint a picture what color would you paint the Sun and what color would you you paint the wind ? . . . . The colors would be... The Sun "Rose" . & The Wind "Blew"................... 🧔
Forgive me for being a grouch, but hear me out plz. First, I gave u a thumb up anyway despite you recommending Amazon who is a terrible employer who is a union buster as well. It would be so much better if we bought straight from Johnny seed or some other small businesses that are struggling bc Amazon is squeezing out the small guy. I know u have to make $, and you put out incredibly good content too, but Bezos is a monopoly. No one person should have that much power. Not much for the plastic either. How long can they keep their strength being out in the sun? Perhaps metal clamp would be better, esp considering the microplastics issue and govt doesn't care to do something about recycling bc apparently there is not enough profit in it for private businesses. I think we need to be cognizant of these issues, esp an influencer such as you who are trying to be self sustaining and organic. Plz consider. I do apologize, Im 50 and been environmentalist since I was 17. It's almost OCD at this point. 😄. Just a thought. But truly you do such an amazing job and I wish I had the ability to grow those gorgeous tomatoes. Have u don3 videos on antheracnose? I believe that is the fungal disease in soil that splashes up on leaves n fruit during rains n overhead watering. I thought blk spots on tomatoes were from leaf leg bug or stink bugs but i positively ID'd it as fungal. I live on the Delmarva peninsula in MD which is hot n humid and my lot doesn't provide a lot of airflow and I probably get 6-7 hrs full sun smack dab in middle of yard. If you do read this msg, let me know. Have a great growing season 2024. The lantern flies showed up here last year. 🪰🐞 - Peace, love, n happiness.
love this roller tool...and your frame structure for garden....going to show my hubs for new project on the list...LOL....but dangit..I just bought 30 of the J-hook string devices for tomato.....
Hey, I've watched your videos twice and read the comments. Did I miss something? How close can I plant my tomatoes using this method? How wide are the frames you built around the plants? How did you secure the uprights to the trellis? Sorry for rapid filing questions .
