Shiloh Acres
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I can vouch that tomato support doesn't have to be expensive.
I don't really want to post a pic (super redneck style LOL) but I had about 35 plants in rows of 4-6. I used 6' t-posts that were lying around for most of the end posts, with some wooden stakes along the middle of each row. Most of the horizontal was baling wire run along at several heights and in a box shape around the rows. Along the top in a few rows that seemed to need it I had strips that were actually cut from partial hog panels that came with the property. I tied the plants with plant tape I had from an old roll. Worked perfectly. Wasn't that pretty when the plants were smaller but they soon hid it. Plants were probably 7' or so, some of them. The cherries only got to about 3-1/2 feet.
I do LOVE the look of the cattle panel bed, but probably not this year either. Since my garden IS in my front yard, I might do it someday for the sake of my neighbors, but we're pretty country here so I don't think it's affecting anyone very much. No one has seemed to mind. The old barn is built right off the road anyway, and my PASTURE (how did my spellcheck get "lawsuits" from "pasture") runs all the way out there alongside my front yard anyway. Not so far to cart the manure to the compost pile.
I don't really want to post a pic (super redneck style LOL) but I had about 35 plants in rows of 4-6. I used 6' t-posts that were lying around for most of the end posts, with some wooden stakes along the middle of each row. Most of the horizontal was baling wire run along at several heights and in a box shape around the rows. Along the top in a few rows that seemed to need it I had strips that were actually cut from partial hog panels that came with the property. I tied the plants with plant tape I had from an old roll. Worked perfectly. Wasn't that pretty when the plants were smaller but they soon hid it. Plants were probably 7' or so, some of them. The cherries only got to about 3-1/2 feet.
I do LOVE the look of the cattle panel bed, but probably not this year either. Since my garden IS in my front yard, I might do it someday for the sake of my neighbors, but we're pretty country here so I don't think it's affecting anyone very much. No one has seemed to mind. The old barn is built right off the road anyway, and my PASTURE (how did my spellcheck get "lawsuits" from "pasture") runs all the way out there alongside my front yard anyway. Not so far to cart the manure to the compost pile.
