Tomato Tomatoe

My two Roma tomato plants are getting pretty heavy with fruit. The larger one keeps overwhelming its tomato cage. A few weeks ago I sat some rocks on the lowest wire of the larger one because the whole cage was starting to tip over. Yesterday I noticed that the wires in the middle of the cage were bending and the whole thing looked like it was getting ready to tip over. I needed to build some kind of trellis or support. This morning I looked in the rafters of the garage at the misc. lumber and found three 2x4's that were plenty long enough. I didn't have a saw, but made them work as two of them were nearly the same length and I just let the top one hang over on both sides. One was twisted pretty bad, but it worked. They all had some nails in them still and I was able to remove them and reuse all but one, which was just enough for the job. I used safety wire to support the cage itself and then used narrow ribbon material to hold up various branches that were now sitting on the ground.

There are a lot of tomatoes for such a small plant (about 3-1/2 to 4 feet tall). I have no idea when they will be ready. They are all still pretty green and lots of different sizes. These are supposed to be determinate, which means they should all ripen at the same time. So I need to be ready and should start looking for salsa and sauce recipes that I can freeze. This should be interesting.