Did you make a Jardine tarp? If you are camping in normal earth, you can get away with hand inserted wire stakes, just buy better ones. I like to add a few hook ones, they are about 3-4 inches long, and look like a coat hanger that had the hook cut out, then one of the ends was cut back to about on inch from the bend (of course that would make a giant version of what I am talking about, you need to reduce the size to 4 inches. They will hold where nothing else will, in solid ground. Be sure you are using a half hitch with a release to tie off short pegs so they don't end up getitng levered. There isn't much point in an ultralite tarp, but 10 pounds of pegs, you could just use a North Face Dome.

The problem is, if you are chanelling Jardine, he will find an anchor no mater what. He is possibly the world record holder for anchor finding. You climbers know why I say that. So when you see on old dude like that just sticking pegs in, it may look like he isn't doing anything, and I am sure that is true 99% of the time, but the guy is a legend for finding anchors where they don't exist, so at some level the problem won't always be the gear.