Tomato outgrowing cage

Joined
May 15, 2016
Messages
847
Reaction score
360
Location
Miami, FL
Hardiness Zone
10b
Country
United States
CED8D224-3377-4524-B986-CDDD38BDE157.jpeg


I have a bigger tomato plant that outgrew the cage, so I ziptied another cage upside down to extend it. Only problem is that it gets so top heavy that the entire pot keeps falling down.

How do you stake indeterminate tomato plants?
 
Joined
Oct 8, 2017
Messages
6,997
Reaction score
5,128
Location
Birmingham, AL USA
Hardiness Zone
8a
Country
United States
View attachment 47937

I have a bigger tomato plant that outgrew the cage, so I ziptied another cage upside down to extend it. Only problem is that it gets so top heavy that the entire pot keeps falling down.

How do you stake indeterminate tomato plants?
I use cattle panel. It costs about 20 bucks for a 54"x16 foot piece. It has thicker zinc coated steel. Since the tomato likes cool feet, I thought "hey make a horizontal trellis" and it worked out well. You can cut cattle panel to 24" and bend it 90 degrees in the middle and make a tall, up to 16 foot, two piece square cage that is zip tied together that would help your plant. Get a ladder! If the stems do not bend over and pinch themselves off, it will grow up more vigorously. You can also spread it out horizontally, and if that is the case put the panel on the sun side with the pot on the shade side. You need to train it as low as possible though, the panel is only 54"wide so that becomes the height on a horizontal panel.
 
Joined
Feb 2, 2014
Messages
11,585
Reaction score
5,665
Location
La Porte Texas
Hardiness Zone
8b
Country
United States
Indeterminate plants can get unruly. You can do as @DirtMechanic says or you can do it the cheap easy way. Line your tomatoes up into a line. Then get two 5 gallon buckets (or more if needed). Get you a 2"x2"x6ft board for each bucket. Center the board in the bucket and fill with something heavy like playground sand. Then run gardening twine down both sides of the plants. The following pictures can explain if you look closely. Pretend the rebar is your board.
IMG_0011 (2).JPG
IMG_0006.JPG
IMG_0004 (2).JPG
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Members online

Forum statistics

Threads
27,868
Messages
264,624
Members
14,601
Latest member
JimBob123

Latest Threads

Top