These are my tomato towers. I have never grown tomatos like this before, but a very close friend of mine does it this way. She ends up with more tomatoes than you can shake a fist at. So here's what I did.
I bought Brandywine heirloom tomatoes (my friend usually buys Big Boys or something like that) and dug a hole deep enough that only the top eight inches of the plant will be above ground. I set the plant down in the hole and sprinkle a tiny bit of polymers and a tiny bit of tomato fertilizer around the plant (my friend does not do the polymer). Then I put in a layer of dirt and more polymer and more fertilzer - just a tiny bit remember! I repeated these layers until the soil was mounded up slightly around the base of the plant. Then I gave them each a full gallon of water. Next, for the towers...
I took four foot tall fence wire and made a cylinder about three feet wide out of it. Actually, I made two, obviously. Then I took a square of wire screen and wired it to the top to prevent hail damage. Next, I wrapped each tower in 2mm plastic, this helps with a little bit of a green house effect.
And....Tada! Tomato towers.
I am not exaggerating when I say that my friend's tomato plants were literally pressing out from every opening they could find. They were so prolific, and through the plastic you could see more tomatos than you could count!
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