What do y'all use with the indeterminate tomato plants that grow 5, 6, 7 or 8' tall? For stakes or baskets or whatever you use.

I use concrete reinforcing wire that I make into baskets about 2' in diameter. I think it's 5' 6" tall. I have stacked two on top of each other but rarely do that. I drive 2 pieces of 1/2 EMT conduit on each basket. 180 degrees apart. I use hay string to tie the conduit to the upper end of the basket.

Thanks Fur, that's about what I've done in the past. I always have some of the plant sag down in the basket and then some out of the top just lay over the adjacent baskets. I just think there has got to be some way to deal with the plant that grows above the top of the basket.

I'm using 50 inch tall cattle panels down both sides of each row. 3 T posts per 16 foot panel. I also have removable dividers between the plants also constructed from cattle panel. I got tired of the cheap cages breaking or falling over due to lake of support. A little pricey but they should last the rest of my life. LOL

David

Hey Dave, I could see that working, especially if you raised the panels a foot or two off the ground. I may try something like you are doing, but with a cheaper grade of wire fencing. Thanks for the idea.

If any of you are close to Hamilton and need some taller cages I have several pieces of 8 ft deer fence drops that would make some good baskets. When we build pens we usually have 6-7ft left at the end of each roll.

this is what I do every year

I only plant 6- 12 so I just use basket's i made from 6' welded fence . I should probably steak them up with t posts but I use scrap 2×4 since its what I gotst.