Member discussion regarding the methods, varieties and merits of growing tomatoes.
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June 5, 2020 | #16 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Greenville, SC
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Thanks for sharing! Love your PVC construction and use of small spaces.
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June 6, 2020 | #17 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Glendora, CA
Posts: 167
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Nope, just the green stretchy garden tape around the main stems. Same with the tomatoes.
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June 6, 2020 | #18 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Glendora, CA
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Thanks. When you can't go out, go up. I used to use those wire cages and when two of them bent to the ground, I used some spare PVC to prop them up. The PVC cages just seemed to develop from there.
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June 6, 2020 | #19 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Corinth, texas
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I bought a stick of 3/4" pvc pipe and a couple of fittings yesterday in a small, local hardware store. The cost was $14.00. I probably could have bought it at Home Depot for a lot less. I only wanted to reroute my condensate drain from the air conditioner. I thought to myself, I'm glad I'm not building tomato cages.
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June 8, 2020 | #20 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Glendora, CA
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No, I prune them to a single stem and then just tie that to the pvc with the stretchy green garden tape (which I save and reuse every year).
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June 20, 2020 | #21 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Glendora, CA
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More pictures
Here's an update as of 6/19/2020
Couldn't get good overall pictures as I've posted before, so I did individual plants instead. Cages have reached their zenith at 6 feet tall. For some reason the Cherokee Purple plants don't seem to be growing as tall as the rest. The Lemon Boy and Yellow Pear were planted a month after the others.
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