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DigMyChicks said:
My hubby made me cages out of old metal animal(pig maybe?)panels. They work great. Good morning all!
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we have hog panels, we use them for the kentucky wonder beans but i guess we could buy more but the cages we have are heavy wire, altho not quite as heavy as the hog panels, maybe next year we will try cutting the panels and using:)
 
sharron said:
what kind are they?
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I don't remember the varieties, they are not ones I had heard of. He said there are two, the rootstock and the fruiting. He grafts EVERY plant! Apparently both are disease resistant and developed for greenhouses. I think that means commercial as opposed to a 4x8 one we might have at home.

Now he needs a variety that is hornworm resistant! He had 5 gallon buckets of those things last summer. I've been lucky so far, haven't seen any at my house.
 
bruceha2000 said:
I don't remember the varieties, they are not ones I had heard of. He said there are two, the rootstock and the fruiting. He grafts EVERY plant! Apparently both are disease resistant and developed for greenhouses. I think that means commercial as opposed to a 4x8 one we might have at home.

Now he needs a variety that is hornworm resistant! He had 5 gallon buckets of those things last summer. I've been lucky so far, haven't seen any at my house.
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too bad. would have liked to see what they were, believe it or not, not one tomato worm last year but the year before i would go out very early and pick worms and call the chickens to feed them too, rooster got where when he saw me coming he would run and wait
 
Okay, here's a plan....get a wide cattle panel. Got it? Okay, put some rocks in your pockets and each of you take an end of the panel. Arch the panel and "walk"" it to the size you want - super tall or kinda longer but flatter. When it looks like the size arch you'll be happy with, drop rocks at the end corners then lay the panel down. Pound steel fence posts into the ground at those corners. Then arch the panel again against the INSIDE Of those panels and use either twisted wire or heavy metal clips to secure them.

Now plant maters on one side, and as they grow just train them to the panels. On the other side of the arch, plant your pole beans, cukes, or other vining plants. You can harvest from inside the arch and outside it. The plants don't collapse and the fruit of the vines doesn't lay on the ground. The next year, switch sides so you aren't always growing the tomatoes in the same spot year after year. You can even plant veggies that are short and like it cooler in the shade created by the veggies under the arch with a path between the rows, like beets and such, to extend the season. That's how we grow our grapes - and how we built our run for the chickens.
 

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