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Buy a roll of 6” concrete mesh and hog ring yourself some cages. It’ll be they last ones you ever buy.
This^^^^ I have about 150 of them stacked. They take up a lot room in the off season. 150 of them . . . ? ? ? ? Heck we can just go to Slummie's for tomatoes. It's the new way don'tcha know?
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We have the tomato cages that you buy from Home Depot and Walmart with the three legs on them you punch into the ground.
No matter what size you buy even the biggest... they are never tall enough.
EMT or electrical metal tubing... basically 1/2" metal conduit is cut off with a grinder three or four feet long and driven into the ground in a triangle pattern around the plants... three pieces. Sticks out of the ground 2 feet or 3 feet depending on the variety of the Tomato we are growing. The top of the three EMTs is level and even. Then I put the tomato cage legs inside of the conduit. Now my tomato cage is 5 to 7 feet tall at the top.
We have had cherry tomatoes that went 10 ft tall but I never bothered beyond seven.
If the cages are get overloaded and I start to worry about them I drive another piece of conduit 6 or 7 feet long beside them and wire tie it to the cage for stability.
Clever and thanks for that. One of the things I do like about the circular cage type is that they are stackable when being stored. 18 of them stacked in 6 apiece only takes up a footprint of maybe 4' under the deck.
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Buy a roll of 6” concrete mesh and hog ring yourself some cages. It’ll be they last ones you ever buy.
This. Cut the bottom wire off so the remaining "spikes/ pins" can anchor into ground. If necessary one "T" post can give even greater stability. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Oh, tee posts are great, but a very economical alternative for this "light" application, is get 1/2" EMT conduit, comes in 10' lengths. You can cut them in half, or any length you want where you can use a long and a short. Hammer one end flat and drive it in. They work in many places!
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Buy a roll of 6” concrete mesh and hog ring yourself some cages. It’ll be they last ones you ever buy.
This^^^^ I have about 150 of them stacked. They take up a lot room in the off season. 150 of them . . . ? ? ? ? Heck we can just go to Slummie's for tomatoes. It's the new way don'tcha know? I run 3 different cage gardens. This is my main set for my Determinates. Then a cherry sweet-100s and tommy toes on 3 cages beside my kitchen deck just for quick grabs. Run a subordinate garden for my Indeterms, half as many for that section, (not planted in this pic) Then my in-laws across the farm, I do some of theirs sets too. But I also run crookneck squash in cages to keep them from going buck wild ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/bJsrtG0m/1566-A744-AFB6-41-B0-8-A6-A-82-D9-E119-C806.jpg)
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Hog panel. Cut if you need to and use baling wire to tie it into cages if you want.
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It works.. I like making a grid of twine inside a chickenwire cage for six to eight plants But two poles with a ladder works well too. Possibly better where you need elevation for late season light..
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That R2D2 on the porch? organic or miracle gro? That’s my grow house (if youre replying to my other pics) 2 MH. 1000W 1 sodium vapor 400W ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/KcWtcTSp/7-E6-AF44-F-1-A88-4-E1-B-90-FF-6-A30-AB031467.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/T1BbtzJv/1-C5-DEDB4-075-C-4-FF3-A5-CD-4-FDE1-EA93966.jpg) Pulled out for hardening-off and wind tempering 2nd transplanting to bigger pots, won’t set out till May 5th or so ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/wM1JcqJk/E3-D61-A8-A-AD5-B-4-BC3-88-C9-BD4-FB97-AC6-F3.jpg)
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Pound in three T-posts and spiral them with fence wire. What I was gonna say but two posts are plenty
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If you're buying a roll of wire anyway, get some
lightweight posts and put one post down at the
end of the row and roll out the wire on one side of
the row, skip over to the other side of the row about
18 inches, put down another post and roll out the
wire down the row of maters on the opposite side
back down to where you first started.
The maters will be inside of the 2 rows of wire that
has now become a long narrow cage, and you
didn't have to cut your expensive fence wire.
You can take it loose at the end of the season and
roll it back up and stow it away easily. No need to
cut up your fencing to make individual cages
( hopefully this was explained clearly)
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cattle panels, woven wire, whatever works. Enjoy the matters!
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Buy a roll of 6” concrete mesh and hog ring yourself some cages. It’ll be they last ones you ever buy.
This. Cut the bottom wire off so the remaining "spikes/ pins" can anchor into ground. If necessary one "T" post can give even greater stability. I used 6x6-10x10 WWM cages for about 20 years (moved and didn't bring them along 20 years ago). I made mine about 18" diameter (about 5' length before bending) x 48" (or 60") high and placed in groups of 4 so the top ring tangent points touched then wired or zip tied them together. The 6" x 6" spaces allowed me to easily reach thru to the far side for harvesting.
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Put up a fence of 2x4 wire. Tie to wire. It makes pest control much easier. I put up a 6' by 100' a foot off the ground. Best thing I ever did for the garden.
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Hog panel. Cut if you need to and use baling wire to tie it into cages if you want. ^^^ same here, and it's galvanized
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I use cattle panels, 4 plants per panel.
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The reason I use individual circular cages is so I can move the cages each year and keep a substantial distance between each one. The blight can spread too easily in tight spacing.
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The reason I use individual circular cages is so I can move the cages each year and keep a substantial distance between each one. The blight can spread too easily in tight spacing. I got blight bad for a couple years in a row with some Bradley pinks I pulled all my cages one fall and while I was BBQ’ing about 15 butts, I slow-rolled all my cages through a scattered bed of hickory slab coals on the ground. I switched up varieties also. Not sure if helped anything but I had a hunch those rusty cages might be holding virus too.
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