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| Start small, grow tall.. not DOWN! |
This is a tag-along post with my entry about things I learned while gardening. One very good lesson is to always stake your tomatoes. I put those metal cages around both of the plants but the cages only went about 3 ft tall and the tomato plants grew to about 8 ft tall. Next year I will use gardening twine and keep training the tomato plants up the railings.
So, how to deal with this problem....
Well, cut off all of the dead branches and get your husband to stand down below and help you wind the plant over the top of the railing. Like so...
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| You saw the before- this is the after. |
Turns out that letting a plant grow towards the door to our basement (away from the sun) isn't good for photosynthesis. About 50% of the branches died. Oops.
I was able to trim back and re-train the plants and got an additional dozen tomatoes before the first frost rolled in this past October. Not too shabby.
Do it to it,
Christine
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