Re: cages
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- Subject: Re: cages
- From: A* D* <a*@crwys.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 04:59:02 +0100 (BST)
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> 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
Thanks Janet. That's a good idea for bush (determinate) tomatoes in my
polytunnel.You can start them in heat, plant a crop, they come early,
all at once, fantastic crop, then you clear them. I grew Red Alert this
way but they sprawled everywhere. Trial booked for '99. I do have Stock
Fence offcuts.
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Allan Day Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
