How to Build a Hot-House Tomato Cage
- 1). Form a cylinder out of the pasture wire by bending it in a circle. Bend it so that the 5 1/2-foot length of the wire makes up the circumference of the cylinder. The 5 1/2 feet of wire should create a cage with an 18- to 20-inch diameter.
- 2). Attach the two wire edges together into the cylinder shape with twist-ties or wire.
- 3). Stick the cage into the soil around the tomato plant. Use a pot that has a diameter slightly greater than 20 inches, so that the cage can stick down about a foot into the soil, even as the pot tapers inward toward the bottom.
- 4). Stick three wooden support stakes into the soil around the edges of the cage to help hold the cage up as the tomato plant grows and leans on it.
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