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To: sockmonkey

Cattle panels - I haven’t tried this but my vet swears by it he is quite the gardener and homesteader. He plants his tomatoes all in a row and instead of stakes or cages he has a cattle panel anchored behind the row and leaning at about 60 degrees. The tomatoes vine up the panel and need no tying. The tomatoes hang through the panel holes and you can just go under the panel and down the row picking the tomatoes without damaging the vines. Sounds like a neatest up.


129 posted on 04/07/2015 1:58:42 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Please support efforts in your state for an Article 5 convention.)
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To: MomwithHope
I likes me some cattle panels. Build a greenhouse, grow veggies. Today I planted some tomatoes against one.


130 posted on 04/07/2015 3:23:30 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: MomwithHope; sockmonkey
MomwithHope:" He plants his tomatoes all in a row and instead of stakes or cages
he has a cattle panel anchored behind the row and leaning at about 60 degrees."

It sounds like the best of vertical gardening, and easy homesteading .
The heavier fruits will hang down as they mature, and are easily found .
Good idea !

139 posted on 04/19/2015 10:26:38 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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