Hello friends!
In today's video we're gonna see
A few tomato cages or tomato supports
That you can easily buy from your local garden stores or online
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The most common tomato cage that you will find
Is the one that's made from galvanized steel that you see here
Now with these tomato cages you might want to use some additional support
Like this stake here which you can tie to the tomato cage
An that's especially true if you're in a high windy area
Where these cages might fall
And make sure you get the ones that has four prongs at the bottom
Now a lot of people get the ones with three prongs
And then there's think that it's very flimsy or it falls off
So make sure that you buy the sturdier one
So here are these cages supporting fully grown tomato plants
And as you can see here the tomato plants have been very well-contained in these tomato
cages
Again these are the ones with the four prongs the sturdier galvanize tomato cages
And the cages are very cheap
If you buy them locally
So the next step of tomato cage we're gonna see today is called
The Ultomato cage
And firstly it might look similar to the
The green takes that you use to support your tomato plants
But there is a difference
This kit comes with something called the stake arms
The steak arms basically keep all these stakes together
So it's much more compact and much more well-contained than just using the stakes alone
So once you unpack everything there are three stakes
Basically what you do is you make sure that the arms
Attach to each and every stake adjacent to it
Just like that
It might take a few tries for you to figure out the distance
in the beginning
But I've seen that it fits it really well in
this 16-inch wide container
And the stake arms can be put at any height
it goes all the way up to the height of the stake
So as you can see here
And you can also position it according to the plant that you're growing
So if your plant is growing a lot in one direction
You can add additional state stake arms in that direction
This is a MarGlobe tomato plant - produces huge tomatoes
A Determinate tomato that we've been growing in this container
And I would like to show you this is how it looks like when we started using it
And now let's look at what happened once the plant grows up
It can support a lot of these big tomatoes
That's why I like this cage it's very sturdy but it also takes up a lot less space
I would highly recommend this cage instead of using just the stakes - the green stakes
Because it just makes it a much better product
And as you can see here this product can also be used to support other plants like peppers
You can see this cayenne pepper plant easily being supported by the stakes
So definitely much better than using the green stakes alone
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So the next type of tomato cage we will be seeing today is the triangular tomato cage
This one is made by a company called Gro-Tall
I know there a couple of other companies that make this tomato cage as well
Very easy to find it then your local garden store
I got it from my local Lowes
And this is just about the perfect size for a Whiskey Barrel container
And the best thing about this tomato cage is that
It distributes the weight evenly
And there are a lot of "feet" that it rests on
The only thing that I had to do for this tomato cage
was to use some wire ties
At the corners where the gauge ends met
I couldn't secure it very well so I use some wire ties
But it was very easy to do I just had to use a few along the edge
So this tomato cages actually quite big
It can accommodate a huge plant
And that is why I chose an indeterminate Juliet tomato plant to be supported in this
cage
So that's how our cage looks like
And now it's time to find out whether it lived up to our expectations
So as you can see here our tomato cages has done really well
This Gro Tall tomato trellis
Although not very tall in height
It really can support this plant very well
I had to use a couple of rebars here that you can see
These are three foot rebars
And all they do is add some additional support because I was seeing that the
cage was leaning towards one side and the rebars help support it
And this Juliet tomato plant is actually loaded with fruits
A lot of tomatoes so I think our cage has done a really good job of supporting
this plant
So for tomato cages there are a lot of options that you have
You can either build your own which takes a lot of time & efforts
But it might be cheaper
Or you can just go to your local garden store
Like your local Lowe's or your local Home Depot
And get this really good tomato cages
For those of you who do not have access to garden stores locally
I will provide the links where you can buy these cages online
And hopefully that should help you
And I hope you enjoy today's video!
I'll see you soon!
Happy Gardening!!
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