How to tie up tomatoes?

Tomato can rightfully be called one of the most popular vegetables. In our country, almost all gardeners grow it and, probably, each of them has their own little secrets and tricks that allow them to grow a good harvest of tomatoes. In order to simply plant and grow tomatoes, minimal knowledge and skills are often enough, but in order to harvest a really good harvest of tasty tomatoes, you need to have some skills and have a certain baggage of special knowledge. One of them can be safely called the knowledge of how to tie tomatoes.

Tying up tomatoes is necessary so that the fruits do not come into contact with the ground and do not become easy prey for worms, slugs and other inhabitants of the beds. In addition, a tied bush significantly reduces the load on the stem and, therefore, it can give much more nutrients and energy to the fruit.

There are a lot of rules regarding how to tie up tomatoes, and each gardener, as a rule, has his own, established by him empirically. However, there are general recommendations that are valid for everyone.

One of the main recommendations is the correct choice of material for the bush garter. You cannot choose for these purposes fishing line, wire or any other material that can dig into the stem. In addition, it is strongly discouraged to use the same material for two years in a row, as this can lead to infestation of the bushes.

It is necessary to tie tomatoes as they grow and they usually do this 2-4 times per season.