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- From: "MAsteveINE" <MAsteveINE AT 207me.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Cages
- Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 09:59:18 -0500
I removed the center wire (cutting against that
wire) from the roll of re-wire leaving two foot strips wirh
the stubs attached. Then cut pieces at the 14 th
wire with stubs left to lock it into a circle, the stubs left
at the bottom make excellent anchors into the
ground.
Then with 3" wide 4 mil poly and 6d box mails used
just like common pins in sewing we covered the
cages leaving the excess poly at the top. Like
"cloches" these went out with early tuffies
like broccoli and cabbage, until time to set
tomatoes and peppers. (Mostly 2 plants per cage)
The extra poly can be opened and closedas the weather warrents, poly was removed
entirely +- mid June.
Experience here was that support for tomatoes was
only to keep fruits from touching the ground
and these 2 foot higth cages did that very
well, much sturdier than the garden store cages.
Five foot high
tomato cages were a horrible PITA , most were choped in half right there in the
middle of their
maiden season. Here at 45 north our season was
short enough that a tomato blossom was useless
after early August so I used to do a severe
pruning then just to make harvest easier, the only vine
management we did all season.
Those 40 acres of new glass house near here are
making an almost good fruit which is the
markets retailing below the wholesale I was
getting; so I am mostly happy I did not put in the
co-generation facility that was looking so
promising 10 years ago.
MAsteveINE
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>To: "market-farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org> > >I am going to make some new cages for indeterminate tomatoes out of concrete wire. If you use cages, what diameter are you using? >Mac >_______________________________________________ |
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[Market-farming] Tomato Cages,
Mac, 03/04/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Cages, Todd Lister, 03/04/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Cages,
Bill Shoemaker, 03/04/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Cages,
Todd Lister, 03/04/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Cages, grizzdover, 03/04/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Cages,
Bill Shoemaker, 03/05/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Cages, Todd Lister, 03/05/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Cages,
MAsteveINE, 03/05/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Varieties, Vern and Amy, 03/05/2011
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Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Cages,
Todd Lister, 03/04/2011
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
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Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Cages,
Mac, 03/06/2011
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[Market-farming] ATV Tillage tools,
Jay Sleichter, 03/07/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] ATV Tillage tools, Road's End Farm, 03/07/2011
- Re: [Market-farming] ATV Tillage tools, Vern and Amy, 03/08/2011
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[Market-farming] ATV Tillage tools,
Jay Sleichter, 03/07/2011
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