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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] tomato cages
  • Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:30:57 -0600

I've covered homemade cages (#10 concrete mesh wire) with clear plastic mulch and grown tomatoes in them. It worked very well but it needed some management. The plastic was wider than the cage so I wrapped it around the cage from the bottom up. I used duct tape to connect the end to the wrap. The overlapping edge at the top I folded back down around the outside. If I thought it was going to get too cold at night, I brought the overlap back up over the top. But it needed to be brought back down the outside during the next day or it would really get hot in there. It was nice for a small planting but it would be demanding for a commercial size planting. I know a small grower who has done some of that as well but he tends to use slitted plastic row covers over hoops for larger plantings.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html



Has anyone ever tried using tomato cages upside down in plastic rap to get a
jump on the season? Do you think this is something worth trying?





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