Are you looking for a way on how to steak up all your plants in this video
I'm gonna show you a very simple way to say cup your plants called the Florida
weave
hi this is Jeremy Sakia from green thumb gardener here to give you some tips
tutorials reviews for all your gardening needs in today's video we're gonna go
over what's called the Florida we've I know it sounds like a dance or something
but but in actuality it's a way to steak up your tomato plants and it's very
simple to do the cost of a of doing it is not very much and it's really simple
to do if you have a bunch of tomatoes really this method is for somebody that
has really a bunch of tomatoes maybe in a row garden or if you have in
containers you have them kind of lined up because this way actually depends on
putting up two poles then you're weaving some string in between those between
your plants to get in there it's really simple it's very easy to do there's not
much to it the poles you just have to buy once
there's a another thing that you have to buy it a little Smasher thing and that's
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now let me get that other way let's get right into it
hello gardeners back here we're gonna actually get started I'm gonna show you
actually how to string up your Tomatoes here now if you're not familiar with
with you know what you need to do for some of these Tomatoes you you basically
have to stake a lot of the indeterminate tomatoes because they're gonna get very
large and once the fruit starts the tomatoes
start development then gonna they're gonna basically flop over so you have to
have some type of way to to you know keep them sturdy in the garden there's
several different methods there really isn't a right and wrong method it really
is just a matter of just doing something so they are able to keep the plants up
but I wanted to show you before I show you the steps on how to do this I wanted
to show you an idea of what this one actually looks like so just so you can
get an idea of what it looks like for it so as you can see I got two different
poles I got one over here and I'm not sure if you can see in the camera I'll
bring the other camera round and have another poll over here and I have a
maximum of four plants in between the two polls and then what I have is just
some twine that I'm wrapping in in between the plants and I try to keep it
as tight as possible because that helps keep the plant out so the other thing
that I do and you don't have to do this is I have these little mini stakes I put
them in because I don't necessarily do this right away I let it grow a little
bit so I do stake it up I get a very very simple bamboo stake and I use that
in there just you know right at the beginning so let me give you a little
little walkthrough on on this just so you can see the actual way that I do it
so as you can see here these are the polls that I use these are actual fence
posts that you can get at most stores I go with the six and a half I'm probably
gonna get a 7-foot one the next time because they do get you know the some of
these plants we get very large so I think seven feet will just give me that
extra little space but it's still gonna be fine on these will be fine to grow so
the other that's the other material that you're gonna need is you're gonna need
this twine right here and I'll show you exactly you know where you can find this
you can find a link in the show notes below and I'll show you exactly which
one I use nothing really fancy you know you're just basically weaving the plants
in between that so the mostly you want to have if you have a containers or if
you have other plants you can do this in the garden is you don't want to have
more than four plants and the reason is is because you want to keep this taunt
so that it's you know that it's tight and everything for it so you want to
make sure that you don't have too many plants doing this because you want to be
able to keep this tight so as you can see over here I have the post right here
the other thing that you're gonna need is this this really helps although it's
it's not it's not necessary a hundred percent but I definitely recommend this
is a fence post I don't know what they call it I'll put a link in the show
notes but it basically smashes the posts down into the ground so that you're able
to you know smash it in there so it's one of those kind of smashing
thingamajig ease alright let me show you exactly how this is done with with
somebody somebody tomatoes here that I haven't started alright so now
that you got you want to make sure you have these poles in here what I suggest
to do is you want to actually line up your plants in a row so I already got
this one this one already started over here so I put this in and I basically
put it up at the edge and I try to get it as close as I can to the tomato plant
if that possible now on these things you also want to notice that these they have
kind of these two things that they use for the plants I like to keep these on
the outer edge so in other words these gonna be facing out away from it so when
you actually do this string they have something to kind of catch on - I did it
the other way the before so the other thing if you never use these before this
is actually what goes in the ground this part right here so you'll see that
there's a white part at least on most of them that's the top that's actually the
top part so what I like to do is I just kind of line both of them up you know as
best I can I get the containers kind of way they're
gonna be because I don't really want to have to move too much stuff around when
I'm done with this so I kind of do my best to kind of judge what this thing is
this thing's a little bent and then so I have an idea of where I'm gonna put this
in there so one of the things that I did I found one of doing this is that this
thing is so heavy so what I suggest is is actually putting it on before you
kind of laying in here into the ground because it does it's really hard to get
on especially the 750 get a 7-foot one as well so once you get it lined up in
there the next thing to do is to just smash it in so let's see how this goes
all right as you can see this is in there and these are fairly sturdy it's
not gonna be you know let's say I wouldn't hold up too much weight on here
but the tomato plants are not gonna weigh that much so you don't really need
to have it too much so you got this in here
and you have your plants all situated now ideally this really works best if
you have all the plants roughly around the same size now I have just I did
another plant right here so this one is not going to be quite the size of these
ones right here but it'll still I'll still do what I need to do is weave in
the minnow but generally you want to start with something that's roughly
about the same size for each thing so here's what you do is you need to get
this type of string right here and like I said I'll put a note in the thing and
what all's I do is is you want to have basically enough that you're gonna be
able to string this through twice you're gonna wrap it in so what I do is I first
I measure it because I don't want to kind of weave this thing through here so
let me make sure I got my so first what I do is like I kind of want to measure a
bunch of these strengths cuz I like to do everything all kind of in a group so
I'm gonna do probably with this one as tall it is is is probably four so alls
I'm doing is I'm just measuring the length across right here so as you can
see alls I'm doing is just basically measuring the length so I give myself
enough enough string here cuz you're gonna pull this a little tight and it's
gonna not be totally in here so I try to just do four all at once because then
I'm ready to go makes it a little bit easier when I do it but you want to do
it one at a time you can and that's what I was saying the the two
things on here they're actually really helpful when you're putting this up in
here alright so I'll do this again this method is very simple to do it's it's
really you know the only thing you have to store at the end of the air is these
things right here which is not really much space I mean if you have the big
cages those are great but if you don't have a lot of room or money I guess
because some of them are kind of expensive to you these posts run I think
like five bucks six bucks or whatever a post so it's not too much money and they
last I mean these things not going to I think these things will last me you know
they're not - not too shabby so this is the third one right here we'll get this
one going here
all right so it got pretty pretty close to where I want to have this my first
plan is not gonna make it but that's alright
we'll get them weaved in afterwards so all you doing is basically is you're
taking the string and you're gonna go in and then you're gonna go around so
you're gonna kind of do like an S around each plant so obviously if you have the
more and then what you're doing is you're gonna circle around again and go
the opposite way so you're looping it around this pole and then you're gonna
do basically the opposite you're gonna weave in between right here and the
whole idea is that you're gonna you're gonna basically get it so it's taunt
enough that it's gonna stay up and you know hold your plants up when they're
when they start growing so it's really good to get this you know kind of before
they get really too big so then the next one I go I usually go up maybe about six
inches seven inches maybe from it you know it really depends you know you
could do it as many as you want but then I go the opposite way so I'm gonna go
this way and then I go this way and you're pulling it tight against the pole
because you want to have some some tension between it to keep it up
and you see this one's getting this one's getting big but when I when I do
the rest of the weave in here you'll see you'll see what I mean you can also
position these too so see how that kind of changes that shifted it down there so
don't be afraid to move your containers if you really have to to make sure that
you get it in there so I want to make sure I pull this tight enough not enough
to rip the plant but enough to make sure it's tight and then you're just tying it
off here all right let me do the other ones and show you what it looks like at
the end here
so what I would do is if you have the plant and it's not quite as grown as it
starts growing I would I would gently you know put it in between the existing
ones that you have and now I'll Snug it in and keep it upright I haven't had any
problems and I've done that before all right then we got the last one right
here
so as you can see them this is pretty simple technique it's really not much to
it I mean it's not very complicated to do this but it's definitely good to you
know to get it in there as the plant is growing you know I don't mind do it it's
you know at this point but I wouldn't I wouldn't wait any much longer in my
situation because you don't want this thing toppling over or during a storm
and then you'll be scrambling to do something with it
so and when you pull this tight you don't you need to pull it like so it's
like we're really tight I like to just kind of get it a little bit taunt as
much as I can but not like overly tight and as long as the string stays on it'll
stay up for this as you can see I got four different strings on here the
length and I basically just tying them in and I'm weaving them in between the
actual plants so as you can see this is not gonna go anywhere
I gotta water this guy but as you can see it's not really going anywhere
they're not gonna move fact I even kind of looped around this little stake right
here and then as they grow you're gonna do more you know you're gonna weave it
up you know as well more in there hopefully that helps you out so if you
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