"ge" wrote in message
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After an embarassing number of years, we've come to the conclusion
that home-improvement store type tomato cages don't work, at least for
us and indeterminate tomatoes.

Is there some recognized 'good' support? Cost is an issue;
construction (including welding) isn't.


I use a combination of cages and tee-pees. Cages are cheap -- less than $2
each -- and 7' oak or maple samplings cut from the woods for the tee-pees.

Cages provide early support, then when the vines began to outgrow them, I
lash the poles together with twine over each cage.