IRRIGATION-MART 6300FT Tomato Tying Garden Twine

I first ordered this twine 4 years ago and I am JUST now needing another box (I plant around 50 tomato plants each year, I individually stake each plant and use a lot of this twine per plant). I also used the twine for pepper plants and tying up various flowers and vines in the flower garden. This twine is awesome - +It's easy to cut. +It doesn't cut into the tomatoes' branches. +It's strong enough to hold up even HEAVY beefsteak tomato branches. +It doesn't degrade or lose effectiveness due to being exposed by the elements (Per year. I'm not sure how it would hold up multiple years). +It comes in a box that you can loop onto your belt. +I never had any trouble pulling out the twine (no knots or hiccups). +You get well over a mile of this stuff for cheap. I'm sure I will order another box in 4 years. I highly recommend this twine for gardeners.

We use this string in our greenhouses for the tomatoes and peppers, and it does its job! Love the quality you get for the price, definitely will get more in the future.

The good thing about this twine is the the amount you get will last the average home gardener years. This is the first time ordering this particular brand so I haven't had a long time of using it. My biggest complaint about the previous brand (even though it seemed stronger than this one) was that about halfway through the roll it began knotting up on me while trying to tie off plants (I primarily use it for the Florida weave with my tomatoes). It got to be so frustrating that I ordered this brand hoping for better results.

I’ve had this for several weeks and we’ve used it as light weight clothes line for drying art projects, tied between a tarp and posts to make a makeshift canopy to cover our patio from hot sun, as tent guidelines, I used a short section of it with some tape wrapped around the ends as a example shoe lace to replace a missing one in my kid’s learn to tie a shoe activity puzzle and I used it to hang a small weight from the ceiling during construction to create a plumb line. It’s strong enough to not break/fray mid-span under any of those uses and lightweight enough that it has many uses. The only instance where it preformed horribly was being used as a string/shoe lace - it very easily kept splitting lengthwise/unraveling/etc. But given I could cut through it (although not easily) with a set of keys, if it is exposed to friction from rubbing against the edge of something, it would likely fray through and break before too long. The good: it’s inexpensive, it’s strong enough for the intended purpose (and others) and it comes in a bulk roll The bad: it unravels easily - doesn’t matter if it is cut with scissors or flame, it frays/splits and unravels at the end easily. Often with similar cord the wax or similar coating on the string when heat cut will melt and seal the threads together, this doesn’t. The splitting likely isn’t a huge concern because it will likely be tied at the end or tied to something else shortly after being cut before it splits apart too much.

Fast shipping!! Reasonably priced works great

Last year we used garden twine, jute, to support our tomatoes. After a short time in the sun and the weather, the jute failed, and we ended up tying and re-tying, losing some of our crop to broken vines. This year we used this plastic twine with the plastic clips and it’s so much better. The clips work well with the twine, it is easy to use and we haven’t had any failures with broken twine. I made some wire anchors out of plastic coated fence, tension wire, tied a loop in the plastic twine and then anchored it at the base of the plant. I tied the upper end to screws in our raised bed trellises, and now as the plants grow, I can attach the clips and support my tomatoes all the way to the top.

This tomato tying twine is very prone to fraying into many strands at the ends or even in the middle of a long section. I don't have much experience with other agricultural twine but I have a feeling that I can find a product that does not behave this way. There is another review on this product that contains a picture comparing this to another agricultural twine for example. That for me is the biggest reason to give this twine a three and why I'll buy different twine next time even if the price point is more expensive per ft. Edit 6/2024: I'm currently using braided nylon mason line which is more expensive per foot by a pretty large margin but you get what you pay for. Braided makes all the difference in terms of strength and fraying. When I bought this 6300ft twine it costed $13 and change. As of editing this review it's $24 and change. You can get 1000ft braided mason line for about $15. I had used 3ply 2mm jute twine to trellis my tomatoes this year and in the last month of the growing season, when my plants were all 8ft tall packed full of tomatoes, the jute twine snapped on two thirds of my tomatoes. The jute twine had been in place from about June until late September to early October. Tomatoes are pretty strong plants and none of mine snapped the main leader when they fell. I replaced the jute twine with this tomato tying twine and trellised them up again. I went ahead and replaced the twine on the third of the plants that had not snapped yet. I only used this twine for three to five weeks before we the frost came and killed all the tomatoes after redoing the trellis. During that time frame none of this twine broke. This is the time frame when my tomatoes were the heaviest but due to the short duration of my use I can't really say how strong or resistant to breaking this stuff is. I do like that the box is setup in a manner where you do not have to open it. You can pull the twine through a hole in the box and leave the twine contained in the box. My attached picture shows the prone to fraying and the hole in the box that the twine dispenses from.

good choice