Staking

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 418, 9 November 1889, Page 6

Staking

It irf almost impossible to get a good supply of pea stakes in most of our suburban gardens, and cultivators areof ten puzzled to know how to support the tall-growing-vaiieties. When the peas have attained the height at which they require support, get a number of pieces of rough scantling from six to seven feet long. Drive these into the ground about two feet deep and four or five feet apart, having a row on each side of the peas. After the stakes are all driven, take a piece of strong cord and tie from stake to stake (even flax will do) about eight inches from the ground. As the peas grow they will lean either to the one side 01 the other, and the string will support them till they grow a little higher, when another piece of string can be tied from stake to stake. This course can be followed till the full height of the scantling has been reached, and that should be sufficiently high to support the highest vaiiety of peas grown. The above is one of the best ways of supporting the tall vai % ieties of peas. Although dwarf peas' are mostly grown when stakes are not easily procured, T am sure if the, above plan were more generally adopted more of the tall varieties would be grown, and I also believe that the tall -growing varieties, although they take up more space, are the most profitable vaiieties to grow.