{"id":4,"date":"2009-05-06T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-05-06T03:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T03:15:00","slug":"how-to-make-a-cheap-tomato-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"How to make a cheap tomato cage"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can buy the small and flimsy one at the store. Walmart, HomeDepot all has 42″ tall for $2. The strong one are selling online for about $20. Or you can make a super strong one for about $4 each. What I got is a wire mesh from Home Depot. $7.65 makes 2 cages that fits the inside of a 15 gallon plastic pots perfectly, or the outside of a 5-gallon bucket. Steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Use bolt cutter to cut it in half<\/li>\n
  2. Roll it into a circle (in small segments, need patience and a little strength)<\/li>\n
  3. Secure the two ends<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    You might want to cut the bottom ring so they become straight stakes to drive into a filled container. Or if you put the cage into the container first then you don’t have to cut the bottom ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You can buy the small and flimsy one at the store. Walmart, HomeDepot all has 42″ tall for $2. The strong one are selling online for about $20. Or you can make a super strong one for about $4 each. What I got is a wire mesh from Home Depot. $7.65 makes 2 cages that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}