Tom Gardner wrote:
On 1/27/2015 11:39 AM, Terry Coombs wrote:
Today I'm cutting up the rest of that roll of rewire I bought last
week and making tomato cages . I'm cutting them so I can overlap the
wires leaving about 2" between verts . The overlap gets MIGged to
the verts , two tacks per horizontal wire . If my calculations are
correct , I'll have about 20 feet of wire left to use for supporting
the pole beans . Might make those into zigzags so they'll stand
without support . Once the beans start climbing they're not going
anywhere ...


I've used cages for years, often without satisfaction. This year, I'm
going to try to "string train" my tomatoes. I saw a friend do it and
it worked out well for her and not too much work. I tried Shallots
last year and all, of them failed miserably. Maybe I will try
Cannabis...

Plant it in the cages with the tomatoes ... or so I've been told . Last
year my tomatoes were easily 2 feet over the tops of the 5' cages . My
biggest mistake was planting the pole beans too close to the 'maters . They
ended up sharing several of the cages and both suffered .

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Snag