Bring on the tomatoes!

Something about the soil in our garden turns tomato plants into raging beasts. They end up as 10' x 10' mats of tendrils, covering whatever was unlucky enough to be planted nearby.

I'm trying something new this year--no more laissez faire tomato gardening, with tomato vines sprawling all over the place. I've made a sort of uber-cage for all four of my tomatoes. It's about 8' x 8', and has chickenwire (or "poultry-fencing," as my coworker insists it is properly called) to about 5 feet in height. I've got plants in each of the four corners, and I intend to train all of the vines up onto the wire.



Right now the cage is filled with pride and optimism. Once it fills up with the full weight of four unruly tomatoes, we'll see how this idea actually turns out...

How do you manage your tomatoes? Leave a comment. Predictions of how my uber-cage will fall short are also welcome (especially now, when it's not too late to make adjustments!)