Re: cages
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- Subject: Re: cages
- From: M* L* <m*@micron.net>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 06:49:32 -0600
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At 10:41 PM 10/17/98 EDT, you wrote:
>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
>
I think you're referring to concrete reinforcing "mesh". It's heavier
than the fencing I use, but either can be a pain in the bonky to store.
You have to use bolt cutters to cut the reinforcing mesh or fencing (some
call it rebar, but the 3/8" thick rods are also called that), but you could
make very good, storable cages of the concrete reinforcing stuff by cutting
four panels and hooking them together with hog nose rings. There's a good
winter project for someone "up above," not down under. Margaret
