The new tomato support structure is helping our plants reach towards the sky.

This one is already over 7 feet tall, which might require a step ladder to harvest the ones up high.

The Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County in California evaluated 11 different ways to support tomatos and summed up the pros and cons of each in an easy to read report from 2001.

They used just over 100 varieties of mostly heirloom tomatos to finally get to the bottom of which system works the best.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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