Ceed,

Did you check at the contractor desk of Home Depot or Lowes (if you have
them)? They can pull out the catalog.

Austin is not forest country. However, sawmills sometime will give away the
trim where they finish lumber.

Highway crews in Louisiana use the 1 X 2 stakes to mark off road borders for
road repairs, so if they use them in Texas, they have to be getting them in
bulk somewhere.

If worse comes to worse, you can get some 1X 2 rough trim in 8 ' lengths at
Home Depot or another large lumber outlet, and cut them to the length you
want. Politicians used to use them for signs they put in people's yards.
(In fact,
I arranged with a politicians campaign office to pick up all their signs in
a square mile area once, and screwed them to trees in Black Bayou Lake for
hanging yoyos.)

If this info doesn't help, let me know and I'll do some checking.



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"ceed"
ceed@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqr stuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com
wrote in message newsp.so1oq3to21xk10@bob...
Hi,

I used to buy simple 5 (or 6?) feet long 1x1 inch wooden tomato stakes at
places like Home Depot and even Wal-Mart. They came in bundles of 9 as far
as I remember. This year they look at me as if I am asking for something
totally out of the ordinary when I enquire about them. They now stock all
kinds of fancy plastic stakes and metal cages, but the good 'ol wooden
stakes are nowhere to be found. At least I do not know where to find them
now. I live in Round Rock north of Austin and was wondering if anyone know
where I may be able to get hold of the ancient wooden tomato stakes.
Please do not try to convince me some of these new staking methods are
better, I am sure they are, but I need the old wooden ones for some
special tomato growing containers I have been using for years.

Anyone?

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//ceed