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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Tomato Stakes
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 11:39:16 -0400

On Tue, 24 May 2005 07:58:36 -0500, you wrote:

>You'll find that the 5/4" decking has quite a few knots. When you rip it,
>the knots will be weak points in the resulting stakes. Many of them will
>fail. I tried it. Many of them will twist and warp as well because it's
>never dried adequately.
>
I have not been sorry that we bit the bullet and put out the
money for rebar stakes. But it might be prohibitively
expensive if you grow a whole lot of tomatoes. OTOH, they
last .. and last .. and last.

They're easy to store too, being so thin.

Pat
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