schoolsout
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How many seasons can one expect out of the poly netting?
And that's a mighty fine looking garden, BP
And that's a mighty fine looking garden, BP
Erecting garden fence in the country
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Lloyd_E
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It's a mixture of spruce and pine. Essentially they are battens 3/4"x2.5" 8' and 4' alternating with about 6" for spacing. My daughter is helping me. She traces the finial pattern I cut with a jigsaw and she gives it a quick sand. The rails are spruce and pine and the posts are round spruce. The small garden section(in pic) is for herbs/lettuce etc and has a gate between the two sections plus a gate to get in. The larger section has a gate 8'+ wide that I can get the tractor through to till, add manure etc. It is in a corner but I think I will move it centrally along the long length of fence - easier to turn in and out with the loader.
It's a lot of fun to do and really adds a nice look to the property.
Go for it.
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bp fick
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Thanks for the kind words. As for the life of poly netting, the websites all say 5-6 years. That sounds right, I'd guess. We're on year 4 and it is in pretty good shape, I'd say. I'm just not sure how fast the UV rays eat it up. We shall see.
JamesHW
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I'd be interested in how you set and remove your poles every season (unless I misunderstood your first post). Using zipline like you do, I guess metal poles could be used, making setting and removing pretty easy if you had holes ready to receive them, like a larger pipe set in concrete. Painted black they would be near invisible from a distance.
Got to agree, that is a fine looking garden.
bp fick
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The netting weighs NOTHING. So there's no particular pressure or weight on the poles. We just use cable-ties and use those el cheapo landscaping 2x3 timbers the Big Box stores sell for $1.99 this time of year. Some of mine are now 5 years old and look like new. I think they'd easily last 10-12 years.
Once you've dug the holes and if you don't change your garden, (I've expanded twice
) the holes are, for me, easy to locate the next year. Oh, I may have make a quick clean out with the pole hole diggers, (manual), but that's it. Our soil doesn't "suck" onto the poles, so pulling them is a snap.
The reason I take down the poles and fencing for fall and winter is to enjoy the view, watch the deer, etc. It also just makes it easier to run my tractor and equipment in fall and spring, re-establishing the edges of the garden, cutting back the ever encroaching sod.
JDgreen227
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I currently have a 28X60 garden plot, It uses (for the fence) treated 3X5 landscape timbers that are 8 feet long and are buried 3 feet deep, set in a bag of redi mix for each post. The 5 foot high fence is simply 2X4 mesh with a second 2 foot high rabbit mesh at the bottom. We have deer everyplace but they never seem to care about what I have planted in the garden. Sometimes I wish I had used T-posts instead of landscape timbers as I could have just driven them into the ground vs. digging a posthole.
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schoolsout
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That's longer than I thought it would last. I've got a lot to do before I can get a good sized garden going, but will probably go the poly route.
