Rooftop Garden: Preparing Stakes for my Tomatoes

11 June 2011

Structure for tomatoes

My plants now have bamboo sticks to climb! This is necessary for both the tomatoes and the eggplant. There are many ways to do it. You can purchase a cage-like metal structure and place it directly over the plant: the easiest and most expensive. Or, you can use stakes or sticks of any kind and fashion a vine climbing wall that serves the same function. This was my route. I arranged the bamboo sticks and used old pantyhose to tie them together and to loosely tie the plant to the wall. Now, with the support of the stakes, the weight of the eggplant and the tomatoes will not make the plant collapse under the weight.