Woven ground cover & Cages
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BlueDog
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Woven ground cover & Cages
This is our second year using woven ground cover, I’m a convert! In fact last summer I was SO sick (not Covid) that I couldn’t take proper care of the garden as I should, and the woven ground cover helped me keep it from looking totally abandoned. (Side note: Thanks to my wife for going out and doing what she could.)
The only downside of the fabric is my old faithful concrete reinforcing wire cages no longer really work, as I can’t stick them in the ground with copious amounts of holes it would take. So I came up with this alternative.
Regular tomato cages are just too short, but I can get them poked down through the planting hole. So I decided to make some two tier tomato towers! They would be too top heavy on their own, so I run a wire to suspend them.
I thought you all would like to see my contraption.
The only downside of the fabric is my old faithful concrete reinforcing wire cages no longer really work, as I can’t stick them in the ground with copious amounts of holes it would take. So I came up with this alternative.
Regular tomato cages are just too short, but I can get them poked down through the planting hole. So I decided to make some two tier tomato towers! They would be too top heavy on their own, so I run a wire to suspend them.
I thought you all would like to see my contraption.
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brownrexx
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Re: Woven ground cover & Cages
Very creative.
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bower
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Re: Woven ground cover & Cages
Where there's a tomato, there's a way. 
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Danny
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Re: Woven ground cover & Cages
Good problem solving there !
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slugworth
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Re: Woven ground cover & Cages
For short cages I used the poor mans' cage,a laundry basket with the bottom partially cut out I had from the dollar store back when things were $1
flipped over.
TV antenna parts still remember those? to stabilize the baskets in place.
Any tomatoes that form close to the ground should be protected from 4 legged critters too fat for the holes.
flipped over.
TV antenna parts still remember those? to stabilize the baskets in place.
Any tomatoes that form close to the ground should be protected from 4 legged critters too fat for the holes.
"A chiseled face,Just like Easter Island" 