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  • From: Jennie Lee <tulipcreek AT dixie-net.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Bamboo Stakes
  • Date: Tue, 16 Oct 1956 02:46:07 -0600


Hi everyone -
I'm way behind schedule reading through my emails but here's my belated 2-cents worth on Jeanine's question about bamboo stakes in Florida weave. I try to use bamboo as much as possible b/c I can get it for free and its pretty in the field but it didn't work as well for tomatoes as I had hoped it would. We have a very thin layer of top soil and an impenetrably hard clay subsoil. Even when I cut the ends of the bamboo poles to a sharp point, I couldn't get it more than about 5 or 6 inches into the ground. This doesn't anchor it well enough to hold up heavy tomato plants at the end of the summer. My rows were a mess by August, even after I tried to stabilize them with metal fence posts. If your soil is such that you can get the posts in fairly deep, I think it would probably work, though you should use stakes maybe 4-6 inches in diameter. I used some that were smaller and some of them snapped off mid-summer. Good luck _ Jennie Lee
Etta, Mississippi



  • Re: Bamboo Stakes, Jennie Lee, 05/30/2002

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