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Support for a tayberry
A new allotmenter, I have planted a tayberry on my plot. The support is pretty flimsy at present (plant was planted just last autumn), but the tayberry clearly has plans for world domination. Was considering putting in sturdier fence-support-type posts, in metposts, but have read that metposts are not much cop. Anyone got any suggestions?
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Support for a tayberry
Sueba wrote:
A new allotmenter, I have planted a tayberry on my plot. The support is pretty flimsy at present (plant was planted just last autumn), but the tayberry clearly has plans for world domination. Was considering putting in sturdier fence-support-type posts, in metposts, but have read that metposts are not much cop. Anyone got any suggestions? Sue Don't use metposts, apart from costing £20 each, they are garbage unless you have heavy clay soil. Why not just get 3X2 timbers from B&Q (it's called scant) and a few litres of wood preservative? - give them a coat a day for a week and then knock them in the ground with a large hammer, they'll easily last 10 years before rotting. You can use any offcuts of timber as cross posts for extra strength, be sure to give the end grain a serious drenching of preservative. |
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Support for a tayberry
In article , Phil L
writes Don't use metposts, apart from costing £20 each, they are garbage unless you have heavy clay soil. Why not just get 3X2 timbers from B&Q (it's called scant) and a few litres of wood preservative? - give them a coat a day for a week and then knock them in the ground with a large hammer, they'll easily last 10 years before rotting. Have you tried knocking in posts when there's flint in the soil? I just can't do it in my garden in Amersham. Even the metposts need starting off. -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Support for a tayberry
Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , Phil L writes Don't use metposts, apart from costing £20 each, they are garbage unless you have heavy clay soil. Why not just get 3X2 timbers from B&Q (it's called scant) and a few litres of wood preservative? - give them a coat a day for a week and then knock them in the ground with a large hammer, they'll easily last 10 years before rotting. Have you tried knocking in posts when there's flint in the soil? I just can't do it in my garden in Amersham. Even the metposts need starting off. I live on sand! - all around this area is pure white sand 20 inches down (it must have been a beach at some time in the long distant past), although the hills around here seem to be a mixture of sandstone and clay. |
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