On Apr 17, 10:13*am, Malcolm wrote:
In article , chris French
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harry writes
On Apr 15, 9:19*pm, "alan.holmes" wrote:
Should one use dozens of canes or is there a simple and cheap way to do
this?

Alan

If they are in a greenhouse you need dangling strings. Wind the string
round the plant as it grows. *Obviously you need a substantial place
to attach the strings to.
Outdoors you need canes or grow bush varieties.

I prefer canes in the GH myself.

I have a wire fixed between the end of the Gh near the roof. I clip the
canes to it with these natty clips from Medwyns:

http://www.medwynsofanglesey.co.uk/shop/SUNDRIES/Jiff-Clip/prod_6.html

They work really well, and are much , much quicker than tying up canes.
We use them for canes for the climbing beans as well.

Am I missing something here? I just push my canes into the soil and they
then don't need tying to anything.

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If you are using string in a greenhouse then the best way is to tye
the string in a loose loop around the base of the tomato plant, then
wind it anti clockwise round the tomato and take the string to the
wire and tie it with a loop, if you leave plenty of string at the top
then as the plant gets close to the wire you can undoo it and lower
the plant down a couple of feet so that the bottom which has croped is
on the ground and the plant has more roon to grow up.
Well that's how we used to do it in the old days, I must have strung
many thousands of tomatoes in my time.
David