I've tried staking my peppers with wooden stakes, using the inexpensive wire tomato cages, and doing nothing ... and I've had the best luck using the wire tomato cages. Last year, doing nothing worked through most of the summer for me, but come early fall, when the vines were long and the fruit most plentiful, I had entire vines (with nearly ripe peppers) snap off in thunderstorms. So this year I'm going back to the wire cages, just to be safe. I hope you'll come back and post pictures of your tomato bed this summer. My experience with cherries is that they get gigantic and take over everything, so I'll be curious to see how yours do and how you end up pruning them. :)

WOW so that's what the food i'm "trying" to grow looks like!!! LOL ummmm mine don't quite look like that, hmmmm..... LOL i can't wait!!!! tabor, my son (12) is building me 2 so far boxes, i think the measurements are 10x5 something like that. next will be to fill them in. we are so anxious!!! LOL i still have lots of winter sowing stuff that has to be placed into them. but next year i'm going to sow into place. i think that will turn out ok. (ya know, winter sow) i don't care for the jugs to well. ohhhh ya, your gardens are soooo beautiful!! i'm easily sidetracked!! LOL ~Medo :')

Granny If I can buy chick pea flower here you should be able to find it. I get mine at the Bin Store, which is store which carries bulk candies, spices, baking goods etc. I am celiac which means I am not supposed to eat wheat so I have lots of different flours. You can also look in the organics section of the supermarket and health food stores. It has a bunch of different names: From Wikipedia: Gram flour is a flour made from ground chickpeas.[1] It is also known as chana flour (Indian), besan (Hindi), kadala maavu (Tamil), "Senaga Pindi" (Telugu), kadale hittu (Kannada), chickpea flour, garbanzo flour and harina de garbanzo (Spanish). Used in many countries, it is a staple ingredient in Indian cuisine, and, in the form of a paste with water or yoghurt, a popular facial exfoliant in India and Pakistan. EG. We get a lot of snow and wind and storms but it is not actually that cold as far as actual temperature. Snow is strange as we get a lot of it but then we can get a lot of rain and it goes quickly. What is really bad is 2 feet of snow that turns into rain at the end. It is really miserable to move. Many years snow doesn't stay on the ground until the middle of January. The biggest gardening problem is that we also never get real hot and not a lot of sunshine so stuff takes a much longer time to grow.

Not the greatest look with the dying tomato plants in the back, but maybe my garden will help From 073010