From the Philadelphia Inquirer‘s gardening blog:

They grow everything big in Texas

I’m talking tomato cages here. These are 24 inches’ diameter and 6 feet tall with 2-foot extensions! I need ’em this big to accommodate the grafted tomatoes I bought last week …

Nothing’s worse than tomato season in full force, and your plants are toppling over for lack of support. It looks messy and is horrible to deal with. So we’ll see how this experiment goes. The jumbo cages come from a company called Texas Tomato Cages in Del Rio in south Texas. Free shipping.

Another in a rootin’, tootin’, calf-ropin’ series about writers who use Texas and Dallas clichés.