Tomato plants can be quite ungainly, amusing since once upon a time they were European garden ornamentals. And the indeterminates I find especially difficult to corral, as they quickly overtake any type of cage or post to which they’re lashed.
Perhaps its their collective personality, much like a petulant child’s–they don’t know what they want, just that they know they don’t want what you gave them. So I’m trying something different this year–a net. Now they can grow free from linear vertical restriction, or at least they get two dimensions instead of one.
I wonder if it will be strong enough to hold up the vegetative mass. Soon to find out, I suppose.
–Simon