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Stake or no stake tomato
"FDR" wrote:
For the past few years I have used only cages, an this year I wanted to try a staked vs. caged trail but both plants died. For some reason this year most of my cages fell over and crushed other tomatoes, so it's been a mess. It's made me really consider doing all staked next year, but I have reservations since your posting. You may have better success...lots do use stakes. The only problem I had like that was with one trough container that tipped over three times during windy weather. The whole trough+cage fell over. I had some very tall plants there and it blew over repeatedly. Another cage on top of a container never blew over. Maybe that plant just had good aerodynamics. I didn't experience cages coming out of the ground and blowing over, not even when stacked 5+' high. These cages have 8" spikes that sink into the ground. That was enough for them--although we didn't get any tropical storms or hurricane-like weather here. DiGiTAL ViNYL (no email) Zone 6b/7, Westchester Co, NY, 1 mile off L.I.Sound 1st Year Gardener |
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