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Made a bending jig like yours it worked great . The best idea yet

If you make these, make sure to put the smaller squates at the top and the bigger holes on the ground so that you can still get your hands in to weed and fertilize around the base of the plant and prune the lower leaves and suckers.

Where can I find this material? I have looked everywhere for this material. Please let know thanks.

$24 a panel at Tractor Supply...and unless you tie them down to a stake the weight of the plant will make them fall over

Hi there 👋 what are the measurements for the long garden bed

bruh nice music... holy balls that is annoying

1. Turn off this deafening, obnoxious, mind-numbing, torture background noise you call music. NO DEMO, DIY, TOUR, COOKING SHOW, OR WILDLIFE VIDEO SHOULD HAVE MUSIC. RUINS THE VIDEO. 2. Edit your video. We don't have this much time. Get to the point. 3. This cage is too small for any tomato plant. It is too narrow and should be MUCH wider. 4. This cage will topple over with the weight of any tomato plant - cherry, heirloom, beefstake, roma, any of them. This is flimsy and has no support framing. 5. You have planted your tomato plants way too close to each other. That density will create fungus and disease, and lack of sun for tomatoes. Nothing but a disaster. This is how not to make tomato cages and not to make a video. Do better. Learn before you teach.

I made mine with regular cattle fence same way only twice as round and double stack them when they get tall enough for another basket with t post supports.. I've been growing 13ft to 15 ft tomato plants for years. By far they best way to get high yeilds..

Don't waste your time & energy... Just Put a T-Post in the ground at each end of a cattle panel Then plant right next to it and tie your tomatoes to it. Easy peasy & DOESN'T RUIN THE CATTLE PANEL

Cut 3 equal sections. Cages would not be that much bigger

This guy is a dang genius!

Those cattle panels are much heavier than any cattle panel I’ve seen. Very nice! I really like your methods, jigs & tools that you came up with to speed up the process. Goodonya! Thanks for sharing!!!

Very Cool. Thank you.

Waste of time and over kill. Too much.

awesome

That is so cool

we moved out to the country last year (after suffering the big city life for as long as I could stand being "off the farm"). just a couple of acres, but am finding tons of uses for cattle/hog panels. as I watched you rolling that cage, I thought, "I wonder how well 6x6 rolled reinforcement wire would work?" True, it would be nasty and rusty, but it comes pre-rolled, so might save a lot of work for making this type of cage. In any case, great vid, love your arrangement. we had to build a 7' fence to keep the deer out of any place we want to grow something, and for the wife, grow beds have to be elevated, since squatting or getting up after getting down, simply aren't options. Thanks, new sub!

I don't cut and bend them, every cut cost 6 inches. I drive 3 T posts into the ground, one in the middle of the cattle panel the other two about a foot from each end, then tie the panel to the posts. About 18 inches away I do it again, Then I plant my tomato plants between the panels. As things get growing, I increase rigidity by connecting the two panels. I have done it many different ways, you can use sticks or boards tied in, lengths of PVC pipe with notches cut into them or heavy gauge galvanized fence wire.

Well done. That wooden bending rig is clever.

Are the panels hog panels, and what length are they cut at ?

Clever wood form to bend then.

Using a little piece of tie wire on top from cage to cage will keep them from falling over when the plants get top heavy. (Kinda like a six-pack ring [or six-pack yoke] holds the cans together).

Semper FI

I use remesh cages that I inherited from my dad. Yep they did last a lifetime.

Using a foot long ,small diameter pipe to bend the ends might be easier than the adjustable wrench. Dave in Niagara.

I have a bunch of those made by my dad 30 years ago from regular concrete reinforcing wire.

Since most people have dirt not soft ground if you cut the bottom rings off you have tines to stick straight in the ground. I made my cages of concrete reinforcing wire over 30 years ago and still using them here in NJ.

Trash. Heavy winds with crop. They are laying over. Couple snips on the bottom row fixes all that.

Those Tomato cages are too small

My husband made me several years ago for tomatoes, cucumbers and pole beans. They are great. He folded them in a circle. They are 6 feet tall towers.

I've got cattle panels mounted to a trellis between my 2 garden beds to create a tunnel of food.

This is waaay too much work. Work smarter not harder. I grow 125+ tomato plants every other year and this would not work for me and would take up too much spacein my garden. It's actually more beneficial if you would use 4 T posts in a 14' section and run 6' deer fencing against them. I did this for my tomato plants and I had used both sides of the fencing. My son & I put up 4 rows and I planted 127 tomato plants. They grew and had an abundance of tomatoes. You would get more plants into your raised bed & save space doing it the way I did. To each their own though.

I wish cattle panels were so cheap here. The cheapest I can get are $90 each, and that may have gone up.

Awesome I use cages for all my tall or vining plants.

by the time the tomatoes are ripe you can buy a bushel full for $10 ... and you spent how much to do all that?

Semper Fi!

Just drive in some 6.5ft tee posts and zip tie the panel vertical. do this all down my 75 ft rows and stagger plant on each side of the panel. tie the tomato plants to the panel as needed.

ANCHOR DOWN WITH REBAR . THESE LAST AT LEAST 3 LIFE TIMES. THANKS LIKE THE BENDING JIG YOU MADE

Great idea and they look really sturdy. My first thought was needing to anchor them. When the plants get really tall, the whole thing will blow over in a strong wind. Ask me how I know...😉

Cattle panels are great, i cut mine with a plasma cutter then use hog rings to connect the 4 pieces. That way i can store them flat. I use 1 t-post per cage for support. Great video 👍👍👍👍

Got straight to the point! Lols, nice video bro

Good construction video. This old Marine will use the Japanese wood preserving method (Shou Sugi Ban) I saw when I was stationed in Iwakuni, Japan. This will allow my timber to last up to 20 years.

Should only have to do it once a lifetime hopefully because as long as this takes for one, the tomatoes are already canned.

Oooooraaah!, Devil Dog!.

This was awesome to watch! Beautiful cedar planters and property! I really think you’re on to something here… if you could narrate, or at least connect with your audience a bit more, I believe your channel would really take off! I wish you all the best regardless of what you do though. Thank you.

I made my tomato cages out of the exact same 5 1/2 feet wide cattle panels, best way to support tomatoes there is. I did make mine differently, i bent my cages square, two panel openings on each side of the cage. I made my cuts flush with the vertical wire strands and eliminated the sharp points and having to bend them, yes it was a little wasted wire but they are much neater and avoids getting hands cut on the edges. I secured the two vertical wire ends together with black zip ties, makes very secure and stiff tomato cages that will last for decades.

Not at $70.00 a section like they are now..lol

When nukes are back on the table its time to get the garden in order.

I made mine out of concrete reinforcing wire that comes in, I think, a 50' roll. It's a lower gauge wire, but easier to work with and still very sturdy. I made my cage about 20-inch in diameter.

Or just buy and reuse the metal ones at the store and save a ton of time. 12 minutes I can’t get back….