Cage for Earth Box

ZBQ · May 24, 2006

What does eveyone use to cage a earth box?

I am thinking of just using the concrete reinforcement
mesh and making it oblong in stead of round.

Need to get this done, the Riesenstraubs are getting to that
stage where they are going to need it. Growing like weeds.

timcunningham · May 24, 2006

I make a cage using 8ft tall wooden stakes and chicken wire. Will upload photo later.

MsCowpea · May 24, 2006

You can just put the cage around the Earthbox--you don't really need to make it oblong.

Homemade earthbox with CRW cage.
Earthbox with CRW cage.

It helps sometimes if the plants get huge to wire on another 1/2 section of CRW making the height about 7 feet.

ZBQ · May 25, 2006

Looks like a plan!!
Thanks!!

MsCowpea · May 26, 2006

Forgot to mention something else I do but may not be strictly necessary--I buy those skinny bamboo sticks that are about 4 feet long (Big Lots, HD, etc) that come in bags of 10 or so. They are cheap too.

I put one on each tomato in the containers and on the plants in the ground--it helps to support them until they fill out the cage.

May 24, 2006	#1
ZBQ Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Southern Ohio Posts: 170	Cage for Earth Box What does eveyone use to cage a earth box? I am thinking of just using the concrete reinforcement mesh and making it oblong in stead of round. Need to get this done, the Riesenstraubs are getting to that stage where they are going to need it. Growing like weeds.

May 24, 2006	#2
timcunningham Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Middle Georgia Posts: 241	I make a cage using 8ft tall wooden stakes and chicken wire. Will upload photo later. __________________ Visit my site: tomatoindex.com a database of over 2700 varieties. Vote for your favorite.

May 24, 2006	#3
MsCowpea Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: S. FLorida / Zone 10 Posts: 350	You can just put the cage around the Earthbox--you don't really need to make it oblong. Homemade earthbox with CRW cage. Earthbox with CRW cage. It helps sometimes if the plants get huge to wire on another 1/2 section of CRW making the height about 7 feet. __________________ MsCowpea (aka farkee) "When we kill off the natural enemies of a pest we inherit their work." Carl Huffaker

May 26, 2006	#5
MsCowpea Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: S. FLorida / Zone 10 Posts: 350	Forgot to mention something else I do but may not be strictly necessary--I buy those skinny bamboo sticks that are about 4 feet long (Big Lots, HD, etc) that come in bags of 10 or so. They are cheap too. I put one on each tomato in the containers and on the plants in the ground--it helps to support them until they fill out the cage. __________________ MsCowpea (aka farkee) "When we kill off the natural enemies of a pest we inherit their work." Carl Huffaker

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May 25, 2006	#4
ZBQ Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Southern Ohio Posts: 170	Looks like a plan!! Thanks!!