What to Do - Securing Your Plants
Presenter: Kim Syrus
Episode: #16 04/08/07
There is nothing more frustrating than heading into the yard, only to discover that someone has helped themselves to your plants. It can really get your blood boiling. Not only have you spent good money on buying the plants you also spent plenty of time planting then. Short of having 24 hour garden security, there are a few simple ways of fixing your plants to make sure they stay where you put them.
Standard plants like roses are one of the usual suspects for disappearing overnight. Not only are they expensive to buy they are also expensive to replace. Best thing for these is a good solid stake.
The type of stake depends on what suits your garden. Wooden stakes are an old favourite although the new plastic version is well worth considering. Metal poles like star droppers and rods will be hard to shift once they are firmly in the ground. Just check where the water and gas pipes are before banging any in.
Now, normally it is recommended to avoid tying plants with wire but in places where your plants might disappear, it is the only way to go.
Thread a piece of plastic tubing over the wire, this stops the wire from cutting into the plant. Then tie at 3 to 4 points evenly along the stake. It is that easy!
New garden plants need a little bit of ‘below ground work’ to keep them from walking. Hammer a 30 to 40 cm peg or length of rod into the bottom of your planting hole tie a piece of wire onto this peg put the plant in then twist the wire loosely a couple of times around the base of the plant.
Because the wire is loose it won’t strangle and hurt your plant but it will stop it from growing legs and walking.
A row of plants is easy to keep safe dig a small trench behind the plants and lay a piece of rod or pipe and peg it down loop a piece of wire around the base of the plant and back onto the rod fill in the trench and mulch to hide the wire.
These solutions are not fool proof but they will help keep your plants where they belong in your garden.
Episode: #16 04/08/07
There is nothing more frustrating than heading into the yard, only to discover that someone has helped themselves to your plants. It can really get your blood boiling. Not only have you spent good money on buying the plants you also spent plenty of time planting then. Short of having 24 hour garden security, there are a few simple ways of fixing your plants to make sure they stay where you put them.
Standard plants like roses are one of the usual suspects for disappearing overnight. Not only are they expensive to buy they are also expensive to replace. Best thing for these is a good solid stake.
The type of stake depends on what suits your garden. Wooden stakes are an old favourite although the new plastic version is well worth considering. Metal poles like star droppers and rods will be hard to shift once they are firmly in the ground. Just check where the water and gas pipes are before banging any in.
Now, normally it is recommended to avoid tying plants with wire but in places where your plants might disappear, it is the only way to go.
Thread a piece of plastic tubing over the wire, this stops the wire from cutting into the plant. Then tie at 3 to 4 points evenly along the stake. It is that easy!
New garden plants need a little bit of ‘below ground work’ to keep them from walking. Hammer a 30 to 40 cm peg or length of rod into the bottom of your planting hole tie a piece of wire onto this peg put the plant in then twist the wire loosely a couple of times around the base of the plant.
Because the wire is loose it won’t strangle and hurt your plant but it will stop it from growing legs and walking.
A row of plants is easy to keep safe dig a small trench behind the plants and lay a piece of rod or pipe and peg it down loop a piece of wire around the base of the plant and back onto the rod fill in the trench and mulch to hide the wire.
These solutions are not fool proof but they will help keep your plants where they belong in your garden.
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