Caging Tomatoes Gone Wild!

All this time I had been removing grass and digging up the soil as quickly as I could.  The movers had arrived to deliver my household goods and I had more things to do.  Since I had gotten such a late start on a garden, I never really knew if my vegetable seedlings would grow very much.   I told myself that even if they did not grow this year, all the work I was doing now would be garden work that I would not have to do next year.  However, by July 30th I realized that the little tomato plants were really growing!  I realized that if I did not support these growing tomato plants, they would soon be sprawled all over the garden area with their fruits developing exposed and resting on the surface of the soil!  Tomatoes Gone Wild!

As I had done in the past, I purchased a roll of concrete reinforcing wire and using a pair of bolt cutters and some zip-ties, I constructed sturdy cages for the tomato and tomatillo plants.  

The method that I used for making the cages can be read in a previous issue of this blog.  I cannot figure out how to make this a link to click on to the past blog post but the date and title is:

Tuesday, July 17, 2012; Tomato Cages, Trellises and Dry, Dry Weather. 
The URL address is  http://thisgirlgardens.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html

I think if you highlight the above URL and then right click on it you can select the option that will take you to this page.  You might have to scroll down to the correct date.  


In this picture, taken July 30, 2014 you can see the cages surrounding the tomato and tomatillo plants.  You can also see that I have also planted one squash plant.  It looks a bit sickly.  That poor squash plant had been subjected to existing in a peat pot for over a month.  I hope it lives!