Beware of this Garden SCAM! Build Your Own Tomato Cages.

Tomato cages sold at garden stores are the biggest gardening scam ever created! Don't buy these little tomato cages unless you plan to use them on pepper plants. It's much easier just to build your own tomato cages from concrete reinforcement wire.

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[kansasgardener]

This is a great video for any beginning gardener. I bought 30 heavy duty so called tomatoe cages when I first started gardening. Sold them all 2 years later when someone showed me their remesh cages. Something no one talks about is training your plants. I go out to my plants every couple of days and make sure all of the vines stay inside the cage. If you allow them to come out of the cage and then they set fruit they will break! So keep your plants inside of the cages just by pushing them in with your hand. Some of my plants are 6' tall and growing.

[JoeShopper]

I only eat free range tomatoes. Caging them is just plain cruel.

[sarahstogsdill]

The tomato cages are great turned upside down wire closed to a point. Then twine Christmas lights and now you have lawn decorations of little trees.

[patriotpop]

I have been using the WWF (welded wire fabric or mesh as known in the construction business) for many years. This is a method used by my dad when he began gardening back in the 1960s. There are still a few of his original cages that I use today, April 28, 2019. They will rust if left in ground contact while in storage.
For the length of mesh you want, take a look at the diameter you want and multiply by 3. That will close to your chosen diameter. Make adjustments from there. The squares are 6” sq. so the length is easy to determine. No additional tools needed.
As the tomato cages rust they can be cut to pepper height cages.
Enjoyed your video.

[ourlittlefunnyfarm]

These things are the bane of my gardening existence!! I’ve never understood the logic behind using a top heavy “cage” to try to hold up a top heavy plant.

[ajkalwaysneedsmoreinfo.]

Wow I didn't know Seth MacFarlane was a gardener too

[annemumford]

The store cages good to put around flowers for support. They also differentiate which plants are "savers" and which are "weeds" when your have a husband that weed whacks every green thing that's not in a raised bed!

[GPCster]

A man in my valley says he grows tomatoes in his orchard. He says the tomato originated in jungle areas, so it can tolerate shade. His tomatoes use the fruit trees for support.

[scottwoodbury]

Years ago I stopped using those useless cages for tomatoes. Your cages have worked well for me. I might add that straight "Cattle Panels" work well too. They require a few minutes once a week to ensure the tomatoes are trained through the squares for support, but they store much, much easier in the off season - which is important for me.

[jackzampella]

I use concrete reinforcing wire cages for my tomatoes and EVERYTHING you said is spot on the money.!!!

[philstat]

YUP! Way back in my dark and early aged past, I bought a bunch of those little cages and found them to be junk and worthless. Now in my golden age ( or is that gray age ) I have nothing to do with them. Thank You for the great video. I hope the new folks to gardening watch your video and learn.

[nancypereida]

Thank goodness I saw this video. I’m growing tomatoes for the first time and now I’m going to go buy a roll of concrete mesh.

[scottyg]

Great build 😀 Little tip.... What ever size diameter cage you want, say around 24 inches from example. All you have to do is treble ( X by 3 ) that 24 inches and it'll give you the length to cut the wire for a round cage thats about 23 inches diameter. Works for any size you like . So 12 inch diameter cage = 36 inches of wire 😀😀

[kimmanivan]

I've been searching and searching for something like this and all I got was videos of poles and commercial tomato cages. I'm so happy I found Instant follow

[bonniefultz]

Yes... Been using mine for Years... My Late Husband made mine Years ago. and they still are just as good as when New :)

[roxb]

This is the best and most economical cages I’ve found so far. I was just about to buy a cage and tying strings for 50tysomething dollars. I’m glad I checked you out first. 🤗

[Queenie-the-genie]

Really scary and dangerous to cut when rolled up as it pops up and be careful it does not hit you in the eye. Very unruly.

[rosacaneda]

Yea... I’m one of those new gardeners🙋🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

My tomato plant has now outgrown the “tomato” cage and am now planning on cutting the cage and building a trellis... I will definitely look into concrete reinforcement wire cage... thanks!

[islandgardener]

Those cages are great for supporting bug netting I put over my brassica plants

[lucasgrowsbestyt]

I made me 10 concrete reinforcement wire cages five years ago and they are still holding up perfectly to this day. Sure they are rusted, but these things are practically invincible. You can also stack 'em which is nice if you're growing cherries. Somewhat expensive though where I live, I paid about $100 CAD for the roll of CRW if I remember correctly. I grew some maters in those flimsy 'tomato cages' and they just snapped once they got over it. No good. Lately I've been using bamboo stakes and picking off the suckers and that's a nice and cheap method and also looks really neat and tidy - pretty too when full of tomato clusters. Nice vid.