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Support for a tayberry
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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
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Sueba
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| Phil L 2006-09-28, 5:25 pm |
| 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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| Janet Baraclough 2006-09-28, 5:25 pm |
| The message <Sueba.2euxpx@gardenbanter.co.uk>
from Sueba <Sueba.2euxpx@gardenbanter.co.uk> contains these words:
> 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.
Buying brand new, made for the purpose hardware is agin the allotment
mindset. Look in local skips and improvise (always ask before removing
anything; not only is this polite, and legal, but it often leads to even
greater treasures being given away).
Shopfittings are often thrown out which could make excellent frame/supports.
Janet.
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| Janet Tweedy 2006-09-30, 3:25 am |
| In article <aWWSg.26365$r61.13766@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, Phil L
<neverchecked@hotmail.com> writes
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>Don't use metposts, apart from costing £20 each, they are garbage unless you
>have heavy clay soil.
>Why not just get 3X2 timbers from B&Q (it's called scant) and a few litres
>of wood preservative? - give them a coat a day for a week and then knock
>them in the ground with a large hammer, they'll easily last 10 years before
>rotting.
Have you tried knocking in posts when there's flint in the soil? I just
can't do it in my garden in Amersham. Even the metposts need starting
off.
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Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk
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| Phil L 2006-09-30, 1:25 pm |
| Janet Tweedy wrote:
> In article <aWWSg.26365$r61.13766@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, Phil L
> <neverchecked@hotmail.com> writes
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> 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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