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  • From: Andy Fellenz <fellenz AT fltg.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Tomato Staking
  • Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:17 -0400

I like t-posts for field tomatoes, but do not stake individual plants, I prefer to weave the plants (stake between every 2nd plant and horizontal string every 6-12" weaving around plants and stakes). The t-posts last forever, are cheaper than wood over time, can be cleaned and even sterilized fairly easily. Conduit doesn't hold up as well as t-posts and generally costs the same or more.
Andy

Erin Bullock wrote:
What's the best (cheapest, most sustainable, etc.) material to use for tomato stakes? Do wooden stakes harbor disease year after year? Do you have to sterilize them, and could I do that with just UV in the greenhouse or something, or would I have to use chlorine? Would electrical conduit or T-posts harbor disease less and not require sterilizing?
Thanks!
Erin
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