Hello all
Well this year has been quite a learning experience. With 6 rows and 260 plants in the field I had to increase my learning curve substantially to support all those plants. I was going to use the Mittleider T-Post until time got the best of me and I realized there was no way I was going to get them built and installed in time to keep the plants off the ground. I searched around the web and the Florida Weave seemed like the most feasible. I found some 5 ft stakes locally for 50 cents a piece and already had a large ball of twine that I used with the T-Frames I have at the house. Unfortunately the 5 ft stakes aren't high enough which I already knew. Since I have a sawmill I will be cutting some 8ft white oak stakes this fall to accomodate the height for next year. Once they reach about 6ft I can just let them cascade back down rather than try to weave any higher
I've found a couple of good descriptions of the weave and several other methods which I'm posting here
http://www.extension.org/article/18647
http://www.foogod.com/~torquill/barefoot/weave.html
A good video from Johnny's Seed
http://www.growingwisdom.com/index.a...&sid=1&cid=341
Bob
