GARDMAN 72" Tomato Spiral Plant Support - Single Pack Product Description:
- For tomatoes and all climbing plants
- No tying and retying required as plant grows
- Heavy gauge, green PVC coating
- Green tomato spiral, 72" length
Product Description
Gardman usa r722 72-inch tomato spiral plant supports
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
By a reader
These spirals work well for supporting tomato plants but this one is very overpriced. First of all, from the picture it looks like you're getting two - I assumed a "single pack" would contain two considering the very high price, but you only get one. After it came I saw practically the same thing at Lowe's for something like $4.97 each.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
By Retired Geek
I got one of these spirals as an experiment to see how it would work. It did pretty well at first - I was surprised at how well it supported the tomato plant. It did require constant pruning to keep the plant to a single stem, but that wasn't much of a problem. Of course, pruning to a single stem does mean fewer tomatoes, but they tend to be larger, and I have more than enough tomatoes anyway.By the time the plant got to the top of the spiral, and the tomatoes were developed to full-size, the plant spiral started leaning from the weight. I ended up having to use twine to tie the spiral to various objects around it in different directions, to keep it from blowing over in strong winds, or just falling from the weight. I'm planning to get a large, sturdy stake this week, and will use that as extra support for the spiral stake for the rest of the growing season.The tomato plant I used was one that has very large, heavy fruits, which didn't help with the weight issue. This product might work better if it were used with a tomato plant that has smaller fruits, but even then, there might be too much weight to support, especially if the plant is in an area that may get high winds.The plant on the spiral was quite attractive, though, and did not take up as much space as a cage. A row of these might work well if they were all attached to an overhead support, but if you're going to build that sort of structure, you might as well just use string for the tomatoes to twine around, rather than the spiral stakes. Another idea might be to use three of them tied together at the top in a tee-pee shape.The bottom line is that if you're putting indeterminate tomato plants on these, they will almost certainly need additional support to keep from falling over at maturity.Next year I may use the one I have for a climbing annual flower instead.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By Cindy
I have tried almost everything to try to support my monster tomatoes. I bought these spirals without much hope that they would stay up and not fall over, and I've eventually worked out a method to use them that works. Make sure that you buy the 6 ft size, anything shorter would be useless. Then position four of them in a square on the ground about 2 1/2 ft apart. Push them in the ground and join the tops of the spirals and tie together with twine to form a pyramid. The pyramid adds strength and keeps the structure from toppling over. Plant a tomato plant at the base of each spiral (4 tomato plants). Prune each tomato plant to three or four stems each, weaving the main stem through the spiral as it grows. At 1 to 2 foot intervals up the spirals, use the Florida weave method to weave the twine around the spirals, sandwiching the tomato plants as they grow taller. I usually prune the tops of the plants when they grow over a foot above the spirals. I really do think that these work better than cages, even homemade ones., or regular wooden or bamboo stakes.You can try this same method by leaning individual spirals to a wall or a fence. If you want more than one stem per plant, you can also use the Florida weave method to hold the rest of the stems up.
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