In my own yard, I discovered the tomato stakes lying where I had left them in dismay last fall.

"I could use them as tomato stakes or gate posts."

I've tried plastic trash bags tied to tomato stakes, soda cans strung up so they rattle in the breeze and transistor radios tuned to a heavy-metal station.

I got up off the ground and dodged away from the chlorofiend, but it followed me, slapping aside a stand of wooden tomato stakes with one leafy arm.

Once, when tomato stakes needed painting, she bought green paint and asked the children to do it.

Rising above the weeds various enough to fill a botanist's volume, on discarded broomsticks and rotted tomato stakes, hung sacks of human hair.

All those vegetable stakes, tomato stakes especially, can be pulled up, cleaned and stored, too.

Then he mounded leaves around the pot for insulation, anchored the pot with tomato stakes and left the pot's drain hole free to let in air.

Your fishing lines and my tomato stakes?

Assuming some farmer hasn't cut it down for tomato stakes.