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It works like this - but difficult to photograph in the greenhouse, must get an even wider angle lens one day.

Thanks Geoff - these are really helpful. One more question. It looks as if the end of the string not attached to the glazing bar is in the soil in the pot. Is it firmed in at all? Do you tuck it under the tomato plant when you are transplanting it into the pot?

If you are using rings it is easiest to bury it under the plants but if you are just using growbags you can tie it round under the bag.

Thank you all for your input, very interesting.

I thought I would use Tiggers suggestion of two growbags, but when I went to the local garden centre, I found that levington make a giant growbag, perfect, two growbags in one. I am also using some flower buckets with their bottoms cut off to give some extra depth (as Geoff showed)
This project is for home on the patio and protected with a growbag greenhouse as on page 76 of this months magazine.

Nice pictures, Geoff. Look how easy it is, everyone. I find tomato plants to be very robust, malleable to all sorts of twisting and bending.

I don't tie the dangling end of the string to anything, nor weight it under the pot, I just leave it loose. If you wind it a sufficient number of times there's enough friction for the twine to stay in place. You might find also, if your tomatoes are especially burgeoning, that you'll be glad of the string being loose in case you need to slacken it a bit.