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Re: What do you like for tomatoes?

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The three ring tomato cages are only about 30 inches tall, after having the 
projecting legs shoved into the ground.  They will not hold a 6 foot tall 
tomato plant.  They fall over, then you stab yourself on the now-projecting 
legs, etc.  IMO the best thing to use are cages cut (with boltcutters) from 
concrete reinforcing mesh, cutting off the bottom ring so that there are 
projecting legs to shove into the ground.  I used fencing with large holes 
(I think it's called hog fencing) and cut  it into cages. Vigorous 
indeterminate tomato vines will pull them over at times, so I have metal 
fence posts that can be driven into the ground inside the cages to hold 
them upright.  I was growing about 70 different tomatoes at that time, and 
the concrete mesh was much more expensive per cage than the 
fencing.  Margaret L



>  Dear Margaret L. and all other SQFT. Friends,  What do you like for 
> tomatoes
>if you don't think the three ring cages are good?  What is it you don't like?

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>Thanks in advance, Kimberly
>
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