[CH] supporting your chile plants

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If you have a small area where you have a few plants, or you use raised
beds,  prepare ahead of time for supporting the plants.

I  use  round pole stakes, 2 to 3 inches in diameter, since this is
sandy soil, I get them 4 feet long so I can sink them in the ground
about 18 inches.
I then buy concrete reinforcing wire (grid)  which is fairly stiff and
after  planting the peppers, I fasten the grid to the top of the posts
with fence staples - horizontal - and the plants can grow up through
the  wire grid and even when they are loaded with fruit the grid
supports the plants and the fruit.  I also grow tomatos and eggplant
this way.  We get a lot of wind here, almost every day and without this
protection all my plants would be laying flat on the ground.
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