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Tomatoes to Stake or to Cage
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25-03-2003, 01:44 PM
George Shirley
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Tomatoes to Stake or to Cage
Pat Meadows wrote:
On 25 Mar 2003 02:12:14 GMT,
(Frankhartx)
wrote:
From:
(cab97)
Hi all, last year i caged my tomatoes with not much success. any
other ideas to prevent plants from falling over. How do you stake
them? Thanks for your help.
Since you are virtually alone in your lack of success with caging it seems
obvious that you didn't do it right. Explain actually how you went about the
task and we may be able to set you straight. While staking is an alternative it
involves more work and care.
Not all alone. See my prior post.
BTW, I've grown and staked tomatoes for at least 25 years,
probably more like 30. Last year was the first year they
broke the stakes and collapsed the cages and fell over.
It was the accursed Brandywines that only produced two ripe
tomatoes from six plants!
I think they were out to get
me all along.... It was just a disastrous tomato-year for
us.
Pat
Shucks Pat, we get a decent crop of tomatoes about every two years. I
have never been able to teach my wife that you don't have to drench
everything in fertilizer every time you pass by the plant. Tomatoes get
12 - 14 feet tall and don't bear fruit. I now buy fertilizer in 5 lb
bags, use it a couple of times and then hide it. VBG
I might say that I used reinforcing wire cages for several years and
they worked to a certain extent. I now use stakes exclusively and tie
the tomatoes as they grow with good success.
George
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