I use the small wire tomato cages from WalMart/KMart.

Alan

Yup, tomato cages are too flimsy to actually use with tomatoes (LOL, go figure), but they're perfect for peppers

If your using the flimsey cages , stake the tomatoe first then use a security tie to tie the stake to the cage, I use the stakes that they use for drying wood, as far as for the pepper plants I use ones that look like a vee and are green, I also used cane to stake them first. Wind doesnt bother them.

What kind of peppers are you staking/ caging?

Thanks,
Dean

I just use small bamboo stakes ( and not on all of them). If the peppers are healthy they don't need much support.

john

Okay, thanks ,John. I ask because I have a jalepeno and some Siling Labuyos that are falling over. I staked the jalepeno and will do the others tommorow.

Pepper plants should have good support.

If a plant that has a good load of peppers on it gets hit by a thunderstorm the plant can be utterly destroyed from the force of the wind and the rain. I've lost a few plants from strong rains before I started using the wire cages to support my plants. If you're using the cages you may have a limb, or two, to break off but you'll probably save most of them.

Alan