Tomato cages for Buckets, Grow bags, and Raised Beds

There are many ways to support plants in a garden and over the years we have used many methods for supporting tomatoes and peppers. We have a large garden, so buying a bunch of ready made tomato cages isn't very economical, and even when we have bought them they aren't as good as what we can build on our own. One of our tried and true tomato cages is the homemade concrete wire cage . This year we needed to add a bunch of cages to the garden so we bought a 5’ x 150’ roll of steel reinforcing mesh. It’s designed to be used for reinforcing concrete but it also makes a great tomato cage at a very economical price. This year we are growing tomatoes and peppers in 7 gallon grow bags, 15 gallon pots and in raised beds. We are using concrete wire cages with most of them. One roll will make about 30 of the large tomato cages or about 50 of the five gallon bucket size cages. We leave the cages five feet tall for the large tomatoes and cut the wire in half for peppers and shorter determinate tomatoes. Watch to see how we put them together and put them on both small tomatoes and tomatoes that should have had cages a couple weeks ago.

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Great info! Thanks for sharing 😊👍

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Cement wire has 5 inches square that's great for tomorrow. for as panels and cattle panel openings are smaller that isn't as handy for tomatoes.
Determinat tomatoes I prefer the horrible famous tall tomato cages. I place 4 cages space according to sizes of the plants
6 ft.T post starting with the first inside the cage and after the forth cage.
Repeating this 4 cages and the T post down the length of your garden..
After your cages and T post are done.
On the first T post connect a tiny steel cable passing through every cage near top and connect the last of the cable.
I'm doing this for the 4th season and The 6 ft T post and cable system has been great and Mid Ohio also gets summer storms and not a problem.
Craigslist you can often get the " Horrible tomato Cages" that with this system I'm finally loving my tomato cages.
Positive with craiglist bargain this can be done cheaper then any other.system unless you count failure setups.
This is the easiest way to train your plants keeping them off the ground