Posted by bulletz64 z8 SEA (My Page) on Thu, Jun 17, 10 at 17:23

Bulletz64 posted this question on the part 6 & 7 of the post your pictures thread but the entry was lost in the shuffle, since that thread is more about posting pictures than asking questions. So I thought I would help out and repost the question in a separate post, so that one of you fine folks could provide an answer for Bulletz.

Thanks! Susan

Here's the question:


"I have 12 tomatoes in the ground: opalka, yellow pear, chocolate cherry, sweet 100, cherokee chocolate, kbx, cowlick's brandywine, big zac, box car willie, dr wyche's yellow, omar's lebanese and nar. as you can see, i've placed them in cages... do i still have to provide stakes for them or is the cage enough as a support? if i do have to provide a stake, which variety should i stake, or do i have to stake all of them? it'd be nice to know this early so i could provide the necessary stake support before they become bigger. also, which ones usually goes higher than 5'? i know yellow pear, chocolate cherry and sweet 100 does... how about the others? i only have a 5' cage, do i have to top them off when the time comes? thanks for any advice you can give, i'd greatly appreciate it."

thanks again for any help...