In article , Persephone
wrote:

I wasted time running around (or rather bussing around, as I have
parked my car due to high insurance/gas charges) to various homeowner
and garden places looking for bamboo stakes for my delicious and
high-yielding snow pea bushes.

Then a light went on over my head. Why not just cut down some
of my too-many bamboo stalks and use them?

Done!

Embarrassing when it takes forever to think outside the box!

Persephone

I've started to use our bamboo as plant protectors for when I drag my
hose around the garden. I stick them around a bed and the hose will
slide along the. They are certainly better than the expensive and easily
damageable plastic posts that I bought at the Home Despot. I bought
rubber caps from the local hardware store to put on their tops, in case
some one should fall on them. I've snapped a few by wrapping the hose
around them but I haven't lost any plants because of the hose.

- Billy
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