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How To Make The Ultimate Tomato Support For Your Garden This Year – On The Cheap!
Anyone that has ever grown tomatoes or peppers knows the importance of providing plenty of support for your plants. There is nothing more devastating than growing a beautiful tomato plant loaded with ripening fruit – only to watch it collapse during a mid-summer thunderstorm. Even more disheartening – some healthy plants can just simply fall over and break without warning from their own weight as they grow. You can go from thoughts of pasta sauce and salsa dancing in your head to an empty plate in a single day! Good support not only helps keep plants growing strong – but the added light and air flow prevents disease and pest problems, and allows them to ripen more evenly. Although traditional tomato stakes and cages both work -they both have obvious disadvantages. With stakes – it can be hard to tie the tomatoes up as they grow, and branches can become unsupported with just a single post to tie off your plants. And although cages provide a better place to tie off branches from your plants – tomatoes and peppers can be hard to harvest through the circular cage. Cages also seem to have the ability to grow right out of the ground as plants mature – not to mention [...]
Source: http://oldworldgardenfarms.com/2015/02/06/how-to-make-the-ultimate-tomato-support-for-your-garden-this-year-on-the-cheap/
