Cages, stakes, and weave

TomatoDon · May 19, 2019

I have always had far better production with 24" diameter X 5 foot tall CRW cages that any other method for "training" tomatoes, but I wanted to ask others who have tried all three methods of growing tomatoes -- plus I guess we should add the trellis method -- which, in your own person experience, has the best production as to plant size, fruit quantity, fruit quality, and fruit production.

The cages win in all categories for me, but I wanted other feedback. I'm growing about 2,000 more tomatoes this year, and it's getting expensive, very time consuming, and impractical to use cages on all of them, so I thought if any of you had really good results with other methods I might try another method that seems the most promising. I'll be doing my own test plots for all, but again, just wanted to see what the people here at T'ville have experienced.

Thanks in advance!
DS

May 19, 2019	#1
TomatoDon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MS Posts: 1,521	Cages, stakes, and weave I have always had far better production with 24" diameter X 5 foot tall CRW cages that any other method for "training" tomatoes, but I wanted to ask others who have tried all three methods of growing tomatoes -- plus I guess we should add the trellis method -- which, in your own person experience, has the best production as to plant size, fruit quantity, fruit quality, and fruit production. The cages win in all categories for me, but I wanted other feedback. I'm growing about 2,000 more tomatoes this year, and it's getting expensive, very time consuming, and impractical to use cages on all of them, so I thought if any of you had really good results with other methods I might try another method that seems the most promising. I'll be doing my own test plots for all, but again, just wanted to see what the people here at T'ville have experienced. Thanks in advance! DS __________________ Zone 7B, N. MS