Snap peas need strong support if they are to grow to their full height, which can be five feet or more. I could never get the string tight enough using wooden stakes. This year I’m trying something different that I’ve seen used successfully in other gardens: metal rebar for stakes. We located our rebar at […]
I”m such a softy. I can’t even kill a plant. Take this butternut squash. It was one of several plants that sprang to life in spots throughout the garden. Although I knew even then they were not a perfect match for my cucumbers, I vainly hoped they would grow into cucumbers so I saved them. […]
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It’s become an annual ritual, the raising of the trellises. I fashioned them out of 1 1/2-inch PVC plumbing pipe, two eight-foot lengths joined together with a “T” fitting to run the length of a garden bed. At each end are 90-degree elbows. The “T” and the elbows connect to three legs, each eight feet long. […]
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