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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carole Olkowski who wrote (595)	5/29/1999 10:29:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 3496

I don't really have any great solution for that problem either. I find that most glads seem to stay up well until a rainstorm and then the wet flowers pull the stalks down and they won't stand up again. I usually put the glads in behind some foot-tall type of plant that helps to hold them up a bit. I've even cheated and put a piece of that green wire garden edging stuff around clumps of glads like a corral to help hold them up. That's where the plants in front come in handy because they conceal the wire edging. I've seen people stick those thin green-coloured bamboo sticks in strategic places amongst the glads but that doesn't look too hot either. Also have seen strands of thin wire strung across glad beds between stakes. But now that I think of it, why do we grow these things anyways?!! (-:

To: Carole Olkowski who wrote (595)	5/29/1999 11:30:00 PM
From: somethingwicked	Respond to of 3496

Use spray starch on the stalk, Carole. Whoops, sorry about the wise crack. I didn't put enough tomato juice in my bloody marys tonight (too much vodka, hic).