On 24 Mar 2003 17:15:34 -0800, (cab97)
wrote:

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.

I use 8 Foot wooden long "furring strips" (8 foot by about 2 inch
wide) available at Home Depot for about $1 a piece in the lumber
section. They are cheaper than the short 5 foot tomato stakes they
sell. Also the furring strips are not pressure treated with arsenic
like the tomato stakes. I am reusing the same ones for the 4th year.
They last pretty well, they are strong and cheap.