[Community_garden] Cage them love apples!

[Mike McGrath]

Scott--they cannot be left to sprawl or you will lose everything to slugs 
and rot. Stakes are the minimum but it gets hard to keep tying the growing 
plants to the stakes without damaging them.
    Ideally tomatoes should be staked AND caged (with the stakes supporting 
big rings of animal fencing); if you have too many plants for that you can 
use the 'stake and weave' method, but picking gets hard.

Read some of the tomato growing "Questions of the Week" in this archive of 
"Previous Questions of the Week" from my Public Radio show, where our 
alphabetical order listing makes it easy to find the topics you need!

All the best, Mike McG/ You Bet Your Garden



 PS: Don't plant running bamboo! Its The Borg!

Read the bamboo Q as well....


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Scott Kuzio" <sekuzio at msn.com>
To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:53 AM
Subject: [Community_garden] ***SPAM*** Where to find stakes for tomatoes


> This is the first year for our community garden. Do you need to stake 
> tomatoes and other vine type plants? If so has anyone one found a place to 
> get stakes cheap or another way to do this. I was thinking of growing so 
> bamboo but we need stake now.
>
> Scott
> Williamsport,PA
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