Those Miracle Blade knives really work

Everything in the garden needs to be staked or tied up in some manner. I found the ideal secure manner to put up the tepees. I bought rebar stakes and they fight perfectly in the open space in the tepee legs. I will put two stakes into the ground for each tepee and the stakes will be about six to eight inches in the ground.

The last three cages from the Garden Patch people will go to the eggplants and two of the cucumber buckets. I was short one piece of the cage because I had used it when I fell in the garden.

I took the piece into the kitchen and got out one of those knives that is supposed to be able cut through metal. Well, it really worked and I improvised a part of the cage. How wonderful it is that those knives really work.

I have branches of the tomatoes that need some kind of tie up because they grew outside of the cage. This is the one that is really unusual. When I realize my stockings have a run in them and can not be worn again, I tie a knot in the stocking and run it through a wash. The knot lets you know that you cannot wear the stocking anymore. Then you can cut the clean stocking into pieces and tie up vegetable plants with the stocking strips.

The odd thing is that the nylon in the stockings attracts the nitrogen in the air when it is tied to metal. Nitrogen comes out of the electricity in the air during a rain storm. The nitrogen then enriches the plant with one of the necessary nutrients that it needs to stay green. For the novices, nitrogen is the first number assigned to fertilizer.

One of the other odd things that we use in the garden are pieces of yellow paper with a sticky substance on them. White flies love the color yellow and prefer the color of the paper to the squash plant. No bug spray works better. In California, they had a white fly infestation a few years ago, and the best deterrent was the yellow sticky paper.

You never know what other things can be used in the garden. It always brings meaning to the saying "necessity is the mother of invention".