How to make pegs for tomato do it yourself

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Tomato is one of the most popular types of vegetable plants grown today in our country. The tomato has gained wide popularity due to its nutritional and dietary properties, a huge variety of species and varieties, and high yields in various climatic conditions. However, to get a good harvest requires proper care of the tomato, which includes a garter to the pegs.

Ways to grow tomatoes

Tomato is grown in the open air and in greenhouse conditions in horizontal and vertical position.

The method of vertical cultivation allows you to:

1. Plant a large number of plants on a relatively small cultivated area;
2. Receive high-quality harvest as a result of better illumination of plants throughout their height;
3. Simplify the process of nursing (feeding, watering, cutting) and harvesting;
4. Prevent damage to plants and fruits during processing;

The main types of garters

One of the many ways to get a high yield is the garter of tomatoes. There are the following main ways of garter tomatoes:

1. Peg method (using pegs);
2. Frame method (using rope or wire frames);
3. Tapestry (horizontal and vertical);
4. Pyramidal (conical);
5. Hook (using hooks).

Pegging is the most common way of growing tomatoes.

Purpose of garter tomato

The main reasons for doing garter tomato:

1. There is a high risk of damage to tall plants under the weight of fruits that increase during ripening;
2. The ability to fertilize directly under the root of the bushes, without affecting the plants and fruits themselves, which helps prevent the occurrence of chemical burns and mechanical damage;
3. The fruits are above ground level, which protects them from diseases and attacks of various pests;
4. The procedure of caring for plants is significantly simplified (pinching, mulching, pinching and spraying);
5. The degree of protection of fruits and green mass from high humidity increases;
6. The degree of illumination of plants for their full and timely development increases.

The most popular way of tying tomatoes is to attach them to vertical supports - pegs.The supports can be made of various materials (wooden, iron, metal-plastic, plastic) as factory-made, and scrap items.

Metal-plastic pegs have a metal core, covered with a thin layer of plastic. Plastic pegs are made of highly durable plastic. Pegs factory-made in various sizes with pre-applied for garter plants elements can be purchased in specialized stores.

The most widespread at the price and availability were received from pegs from a tree.

Making pegs with your own hands

You can make wooden supports for tomatoes with your own hands even without special training. For the manufacture, a pre-marked wooden board with a length of 2.0-2.5 m, a width of 10-15 cm and a thickness of 5-7 cm, is marked in width and length with the required number of stakes.

Then, using a hand or circular saw, the board is “dismissed” into bars of the selected section. The resulting stakes, if necessary, grind with a plane or using coarse sandpaper. For more convenient and easy penetration, the ends of the stakes are sharpened at an angle of 45 from one or several sides of the support.

Installing Props

After preparing the necessary number of pegs, proceed to their driving into the ground. In order not to damage the roots of the tomato, the place for driving the support should be 10-15 cm away from the main stem. If the ground is hard and compacted, the driving is done with a heavy hammer or sledgehammer.. If the earth is friable, it will only be necessary to press lightly on the support to deepen it to a sufficient depth (up to 30 cm).

Tomato garter

The garter of bushes is carried out with the help of a rope made of a strong and rotting material. Initially, the rope is tied on a support, and then the stem is grabbed and tied to a support for several knots. For a more secure anchorage, you need to grab the stem and 2-3 neighboring large brushes together.

Unusual mounting methods

In addition to the above usual methods of attaching tomatoes, there are original and, at the same time, practical variants of the garter of tomatoes with the help of scrap materials. For example:

Reverse cone vertical design

It is a structure of several hoops of different diameters, which are fixed on supports mounted inclined to each other. Hoops are evenly distributed over the entire height of the structure from the bottom up, starting from the hoop with a smaller diameter to a larger one. Such a cone-shaped design allows you to reliably protect the tomato bush from recurrent frosts.

Inclined trellised A-shaped design

It is a spatial structure made of elongated A-shaped arrays made of small-diameter tree trunks, wooden rods or stakes, elongated and inclined towards each other.

Inclined trellis V-shaped design

It is a structure resembling in its essence an “inverted” image of a previous structure. It consists of V-shaped lattices shortened and inclined to the opposite side of each other.

This procedure guarantees higher yields, longer fruiting and more efficient use of acreage.