I'm pretty sure "the strings from above" technique is the final technique for supporting my plants, it is at least the easiest I've used so far (and I went through most of them : spirals, tie and sticks, tie and cages,...). There is no knotting involved here you just sweep the growing plant around the string (inverse spiral). The tomato is 'hanging in the rope' (like a bad boxer) but since the rope is spiraling it doesn't harm the plant. I tend to use a double string per plant starting from bottom of plant, over the top support down again ending the string in a knot on the other half below; this way you can lower the plant somewhat when it outgrows your greenhouse for instance (you just slide the knot up, lengthening the string - the tomato keeps hanging on to the string, hardly knows it is moved).
Really, "throwing" the top growth around the string is the easiest of techniques I've seen ...
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