[JustaDumbBlonde]

Tomatoes are tied to one piece of rebar, no cage or trellis. Caged my tomatoes one year and decided that the cages were really good perches for birds to sit and peck the tomatoes as soon as they showed good color. The rebar works really well. I'll try to post a photo that shows the whole plant.

My pepper plants are staked the same way.

[afraidfortherepublic]

They are just beautiful. I have some cages and some twisty stakes. I don’t know which is better. The twists are neat until the tomato outgrows them and then you have a tangle.

The cages don’t need any attention, but they are expensive — $10 each for the nice ones. I don’t like those old conical wires. They fall over when the plant gets big and are a mess to store.

Again, you have the perfect solution.

Have you started a book yet? You need to.