Thanks for all the information! I've only used cages before, but
haven't been terribly happy with them. This past summer, I grew 5
tomato plants, total. I didn't do anything with them (since my
daughter was born in April, I was lucky to get anything into the ground
at all!), and they totally took over the veggie garden (about 12'x12').
Well, that was also probably because the one big garden thing we did
do was to fill in our raised beds with nice new dirt mixed with
compost. I had 2 Early Girl, 2 Brandywine, and one Mr. Stripy, and the
Brandywine especially were just gigantic!

I may try the Florida weave, or some sort of variation - that looks
like a promising idea from my googling, even though I'm only planning
on doing 4 plants this year.

Irene