I made tomato cages from concrete reinforcing wire this year, and they worked well. Unfortunately my tomatoes acquired some sort of fungal infection and died a slow, horrible death
How can I sterilize the cages for next season? They're 5' tall and 2' in diameter, so they're a bit large to submerge anything.
I thought about filling an old trash can with a weak bleach solution and dipping them twice (flipping them over in between) but that leaves me with a problem of disposing of a lot of bleach solution.
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Yeah, the tomatoes are going to the far end of the garden next year, as far from their present location as physically possible.DoubleDogFarm wrote:I like the propane weed burner idea, but I'm pretty sure none of it is necessary. I would be more concerned with the soil. Crop rotation if you can.
I do have a propane soldering torch in my garage; I can try that. I suppose a few passes over the metal should be enough, no?
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