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Plants that benefit from supports

Vining plants need something to cling to, like a trellis. Tall and top-heavy plants like many
flowering perennials require staking or cages. Saplings exposed to windy conditions need
stakes to support them.

VEGETABLE PLANTS

Get your plant supports
in early, before your
plants get very big.
Use garden ties and
garden tape to secure
your plants firmly but
gently. Then adjust your
supports as your plants
mature.
▪ Determinate tomato plants: cage

▪ Indeterminate tomato plants: stakes, trellis or hanging ropes
▪ Runner beans: hanging ropes, trellis or stakes
▪ Peas: trellis or net, hanging ropes

▪ Peppers: cage or stakes
▪ Zucchini, winter squash, melon, cucumber: trellis or netting for vertical cultivation

FLOWERING PLANTS

▪ Peonies: stake, ring or cage
▪ Sweet peas, morning glories, clematis: stakes, trellis or tepee

▪ Foxgloves, sunflowers: stakes
▪ Gladiolas, delphiniums: stakes or ropes
▪ Hollyhocks: stakes or tepee

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