Bamboo Garden Poles

Timeless and Practical

THE BEST WAY I’VE FOUND to support cucumbers is to tie bamboo poles together in a network to carry netting. And attaching tomato vines to long bamboo poles, rather than the usual metal cages, allows them to grow much taller. Shorter lengths of bamboo support certain other plants and mark rows. The ends of bamboo in the ground last only a year or two, bu…