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    Best Homemade Tomato Cages - GF Video

    by Eric · This post may contain affiliate links, its one way we pay the bills. · 1 Comment

    These are the best homemade tomato cages I have made. They hold up every year, and are easy to put away, and they don't break like those cheap tomato cages. Watch the video to see how to make tomato cages my way.

    How to make the Best Homemade Tomato Cages

    I use concrete reinforcing wire to make tomato cages. These come 9' long, and we will cut them down. There are two gauges of wire avail for concrete mesh, buy the thinner kind if  there is a choice.

    watch tomato videos 2Lay down the wire on the ground, and cut the mesh in to pieces as shown in the video. Be sure to wear eye and ear protection if you are using a power tool. You can also use bolt cutters to cut the wire.

    Best Homemade Tomato Cages

    I bend the end wires over the adjoining piece of wire mesh, you could also use wire or cable ties to connect them. If you use wire, you could dis-assemble the best homemade tomato cages for storage. Wear gloves when working with the mesh or wire, it saves your hands from cutting cut and being stained with rust from the metal.

    To keep the cages upright, I weave a 1x2 stake through the mesh once or twice. Drive the stake in and the cage wont go anywhere. If you are using raised beds (video to build them here) screw the stake into the side of the bed, works great for stability.

    Best Homemade Tomato Cages

    An alternative is to buy a roll of concrete mesh. You can cut off a length of it and tie it together. My issue with this is that the roll of mesh isn't very wide, so you get a short tomato cage, and most tomatoes do well in a tall cage, I think.

    I find these cages work really well for cherry tomatoes. Those stalks grow all over the place and tend to get taller than most other tomatoes, and these cages are up to the challenge. I like taller plants because my dogs will eat the cherry tomatoes off the vine at their level, so tall plants are necessary!

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    1. David McClellan

      October 15, 2016 at 9:08 am

      Follow up on Red Christmas Ornaments hanging on Tomato vines:

      I have had Mockingbirds that were notorious for pecking both green and red tomatoes. My situation was to purchase green tennis balls, and spray paint some red. So, I hung a collection of green and red tennis balls on my tomato cages before any fruit was even visible. The mockingbirds attacked the tennis balls. After a couple of weeks, no birds!

      Yes, it does work! I also found a free source of balls from local tennis courts. It seems when tennis balls are 'dead' they are discarded in the trash cans. Or just left on the courts.

      Enjoy the show... David, Weatherford, TX

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