TIL the hard way that tomato cages are useless for indeterminate plants after my whole garden collapsed in July

I was at a community garden plot near Austin last summer and watched a guy's 6-foot plants fall over because the cages just weren't tall enough, now I use cattle panels bent into arches instead - has anyone else had luck with a different support system?

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skylerw871d ago

Started using old concrete reinforcing mesh from a construction site near me - cut it into six foot sections and bent them into tubes. Works way better than those flimsy wire cones that fold up when a tomato looks at them wrong. Makes me wonder how many other parts of gardening we overcomplicate when the cheap DIY fix works better.

sanchez.sean13h ago

I heard someone say that rebar cages work great for cucumbers too.