[Market-farming] 1. Am I crazy? re: tomatoes (Beth Spaugh)

Bill Shoemaker wshoemak at illinois.edu
Thu Jan 29 08:09:02 EST 2009


Sorry, I meant to say indeterminates in the first line. Makes no sense for determinates. Just before bed when I wrote it.
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>I find you can make nice cages for determinates by using #10 concrete wire. Use the full 5' width to make tall cages. Put one on each plant, drive a tomato stake in the ground between them. Bind two cages to each stake with a cable tie about 4' up. It reinforces them sufficiently that they won't blow down. The indeterminate will grow right up to the top and over but the cages manage them well for us in northern Illinois. They'll work in a tall tunnel too.
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>Bill
William H Shoemaker, UI-NRES
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St Charles Horticulture Research Center
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