Here's what I use them for. It's only to get the plant into the garden and give it some support protection from wind. And this is only for the time it takes me to get a larger stake in place. But, I never take the skewers out. They get tilled up the following year.
Note the size of the plant and the skewer is still down there. I twist one end of the plastic coated wire around the skewer and simply take the other end out around the plant and back to the skewer where I form a "hook". This allows the increasing diameter of main stem to not get "strangled". The wire simply slips away from the skewer as the plant gets larger.
They come 100 skewers to the package for 99 cents.
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Ted
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Owner & Sole Operator Of
The Muddy Bucket Farm
and Tomato Ranch
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