I use a velcro tape to tie the plants to the rebar. It is reuseable from year to year. I am going on year 4 with some of the pieces.
Posted on 03/09/2012 10:51:08 AM PST by JustaDumbBlonde
Please add me to your weekly garden thread. I’m a newbie but would like to grow some tomatoes in a container this year. Thank you.
I use a velcro tape to tie the plants to the rebar. It is reuseable from year to year. I am going on year 4 with some of the pieces.
Thanks.
I know a better way to set those tomatoe plants in the ground.
Make a furrow and set the plant in it laying down on its side. Have some of that stalk in the furrow too. The entire length of plant in the furrow will turn into root structure which will increase the capacity of the plant to get nutrients.
Go Tigers!
Howdy, howdy. It’s 55 and overcast in my corner of the DelMarVa Peninsula, after being in the 70s yesterday. It was supposed to clear up by now, but it looks like it wants to rain again. The ground is still over saturated from the rains we got last week, and last night’s rain didn’t help any.
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In our divided house, it is always the Tigers ... me with Auburn and my husband with LSU. I’ll yell for LSU if they aren’t playing Auburn. :)
Hey! We are thankful for the rain after last year’s drought, but it has been an awfully wet winter. Thank goodness my husband and son got several hundred acres of corn planted earlier this week. It’s not too late yet, but it is getting close and we have hundreds of acres yet to go.
Here’s a tomato stake ‘horror story’ for you. My elderly aunt has had a vegetable garden all her life. Back ‘in the day’ (depression years), you had a garden or you starved. Anyway, even in her older years, she has always had a small garden in the back yard. When she was 81 or 82, she was pushing wooden tomato stakes into the ground (from a standing position) and when they didn’t go in easily or deep enough, she was really pushing hard and leaning into the stake. Well, a stake she was leaning on broke and she fell head-first into the dirt. As she became aware of where she was and more or less what had happened, she realized she couldn’t move …. not her arms or legs. She laid there for quite some time and, in her usual calm manner, had decided that she was probably going to die, right there, lying in the garden.
As time went on, she began to feel tingling in her hands and then her feet … gradually she was able to move her arms and legs. She tried to get up, but her neck was hurting so she took both hands and held her neck and tried to get up again. Being an older woman, she always wore cotton dresses and even though she was able to get to her knees, the dress was keeping her from walking on her knees or getting up. She started trying to call for help. Her neighbor had a side porch where he stored junk on the side of the house facing my Aunt’s house. She said he NEVER came out on that porch ….. but that particular day he did, heard her weak cries for help and came to her aid & called the Rescue Squad. It turns out that she had a broken neck …. they put her in a halo brace and the doc told her that it would be a ‘wait and see’ …. at her age, he wasn’t sure if her bones would heal on their own or if she would need surgery. She recovered just fine – neck healed up, no surgery needed and no adverse affects. February 1 of this year, she turned 92 and is doing fine, if a little forgetful these days.
I guess this illustrates another REALLY good reason to use rebar! :-)
Excellent article.
Even though we are having a mild winter here in CNY, I can’t wait to garden.
Wow ... I am so thankful she was okay in the end. What a trooper!
Holy cow. What a story!
LSU is playing Kentucky, but they are falling behind...
For me, tomato cages ended up being nothing more than a perch for the birds that enabled them to ruin ever tomato they could reach. I haven’t had a bit of damage by birds since changing to rebar! My tomato cages always bent and collapsed or fell over. They are okay for smaller varieties of peppers though.
Thank you so much!
Your tomatoes are nearly on top of each other. How do you avoid disease? Isn’t your crop yield low? You must water alot for such dense planting.
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