Re: cages
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- Subject: Re: cages
- From: M*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:41:41 EDT
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In a message dated 10/17/98 12:37:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
ian@minidata.co.nz writes:
<< Thanks for the info Margaret... I'm wondering about making some tall cages
for my greenhouse tomatos. I hate tying up strings to the roof every year.
I can get a plastic mesh that would roll into a tube of, say, a foot in
diameter and 6 foot high. Appart from plant support is there any other
advantage to be gained by growing in cages.
>>
(Poor kitty, Margaret.) If you want to make some support cages for your
tomatoes, make sure what you use has openings large enough to put your hand
through while holding a picked tomatoe. Out here some people use rolled
cylinders 2 to 3 feet in diameter of metal field fencing or construction wire
which is about 4 or 5 feet tall, with openings about 4" by 5". They work
nicely from what I have seen.
Janet
