Wooden Tomato Stakes Views
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I use wooden surveyor stakes to hold up my tomatoes. They are the perfect height(6 ft.) for my plants. They are strong, rugged,and have rough sides so the tie-ups don't slip. They are pointed on one end so they go in and come out easily. They don't give you plants metal burn and they are recyclable. They cost less than a buck apiece (36 for $23)and I get three to four years use out of them. For tie-ups I use old shirts and old tee shirts and they get recycled to. I just love to go out and tie up the braches and watch them babies grow!
I use wooden stakes, reinforced with 3/8 rebar because the ground underneath my garden soil is too hard to drive a wooden stake into. (We call it Southern Maryland Cement. ) But, I'm will try Dick the Trombone Player's idea and use 1/2 electrical conduit. I grow determinate and indeterminate plants. I sucker all the plants and cut the indies off at five clusters of blossoms, because I'm more interested in tomatoes than I am in tomato plant.
Staking requires wooden or metal stakes 5 to 6 feet long for indeterminate varieties and 3 to 4 feet long for determinate varieties. Wooden stakes should be at least 1 inch square. Metal stakes can be of smaller diameter and have the advantage of lasting many years. Do not use chemically treated wood. Sections of concrete reinforcing rods (rebar) make excellent tomato stakes.
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