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What advantages!

Adequate support improves plant productivity while facilitating
harvesting. It provides good airflow, reducing the incidence
of diseases and the proliferation of mealybugs.

Your options

Stakes, cages and trellises can be large or small and made from a variety of materials. Style is personal,
so make them your own!

GARDEN STAKES
Stakes provide essential support for flowering perennials
and vegetable plants you expect to grow over a few feet tall.
As a rule of thumb, a garden stake should run up approximately
2 /3 of the mature plant you want it to support. Exception: young
trees, which will ‘outgrow’ their stakes when they are
sufficiently strong.

PLANT CAGES
Cages are a kind of fence around your plant
to protect it as it matures, to help it grow
vertically strong instead of on the ground.
Basically, a plant cage is a structure that supports
plants that are not able to support themselves.
Cages come in three shapes – round, square,
or triangular – with three or four vertical rods,
inserted into the ground like stakes, and three
or four horizontal rods.

GARDEN TRELLISES
A trellis is the ideal way to support flowering
or fruiting vines that climb and support
themselves by using twining stems,
tendrils, aerial roots or adhesive disks.
There are a number of materials to choose
from: classic wood, bamboo, plastic,
or even ropes.

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