What a great idea ... Love it! I have a pattern someplace for making a Snowman with a tomato cage but I love the idea of the trees ... looks great with those lights you have added but it would look nice with the teeny ones also! Love this tip and I plan on trying it next Christmas!

Yeah, but what can you do with them for Halloween???

Snort.

What a cool idea!!

All kinds of uses for tomato cages when they aren't being used for what they were made to be used for. I dry my socks and other small items on mine... But the Christmas lights are nice too, good idea !

sheryl said:Yeah, but what can you do with them for Halloween???

cover with a sheet.. and make a ghost

here is what it looked like before putting the garland on

sheryl said:Yeah, but what can you do with them for Halloween???

One type of tomato cage (like the one Allison is showing) I stick into a container with a Hummingbird plant inside so that the Hummers have a place to rest on. A couple of years ago I found a red tom. cage!

For the other type of tom. cage (boxy looking), I tied two of them together to make it taller, stuck it into a larger container with a Hummingbird plant inside and had Hummers using it all Summer for a tall 'look out' perch! They loved it!

I'll have to round up some pics for you (w/o Hummer).

Here's some pics of the second tomato cage I was referring to. This was the first year I did it.

It's taller than shows in the pic and the Hummers tiny feet can wrap around it easily. I used those green tomato velcro strips on all four sides between the lower cage and the upper cage to secure them together.




I'll try to look for some pics of the other type.

Other type of tomato cage......I used to use the 'silver' type until I found a red one.

love that.. thanks for posting.. they love the hoop I put on rebar for the glads as well

Thanks Allison!

Clever idea!

Wow, love all those plants! I've never seen a red tomato cage.
Hey, you could put a kid's bouncy ball on top of the tomato cage before draping a sheet over it for a Halloween ghost, and paint a scary face on it.

KyWoods said:Wow, love all those plants! I've never seen a red tomato cage.
Hey, you could put a kid's bouncy ball on top of the tomato cage before draping a sheet over it for a Halloween ghost, and paint a scary face on it.

Or drape the sheet & then put a pumpkin head in top.


Cool idea Marilyn with the hummer set up!

Oh, all you clever people. What wonderful imaginations!! Never saw a red tomato cage either, but would love to have some for my tomato plants.

The Rural King farm store has tomato cages in several colors including red.I think Menards also had cages in colors this year.