Making Tomato Cages
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Published 2010-04-19
After we put up the fence, we had quite a bit of left over fencing. They cut it into five-foot long sections. Next, they trimed off the bottom and left the spike parts that will poke into the ground. They bent the wire where it had been cut off the roll into hooks. They bent the cages into a circle and hooked the side seams together. Our wonderful tomato cage!
All Comments (9)
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Nine years later I am still using these. :)
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wow - those look much better than the ones you buy. sturdier and taller.
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Good job! :) Thumbs up from Dublin (Ireland) ! :)
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@RamFan4u I am so glad if anything i have done has helped, That makes it all worthwhile. I never had much luck with a strawberry pot but I will tell you what I did one place that I was delighted with. I used the strawberry plants to make a border on the sidewalk. They are such a pretty plant with such dainty flowers that it was very nice, particularly since they were the ever-bearing kind that flower twice during the season.
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@RamFan4u What was nice is that my husband at the time just mowed along side them which kept them from spreading where they were not supposed to be.
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@MyRealityBytes Oh, yes! These are so much better. I can also plant beans or any kind of vine plant in them for very easy picking. I ended up with 11 like that and one a bit bigger around that I am using just for beans. I already had two from a friend last year! Three of them have cukes growing in them, three have assorted kinds of limas and seven have different kinds of tomatoes. This year we eat!
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@RavenBlaze That's the plan! We do eat a lot of them. I have seven varieties planted.
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@RamFan4u LOL!! You don't even know the half of it. I planted seeds saved from all my friends best tomatoes last year. Of course, I planted twice as many as I really wanted just to be on the safe side. Now, I have dozens of tomato plants in every kind of spare container imaginable. I plan on giving them to anyone and everyone who can't out run me. Well, after all the seeds were free!
