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?

Sue

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.

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

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.