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Posted by muggridge 7NC (My Page) on Wed, Mar 19, 08 at 16:20
Does anyone have any ideas on frugal grid and/or ring style plant supports? (They stand on legs and the taller plants grow through them and are held upright in the garden). Gardeners Supply sells them for $10 or so each but there has to be a better way!
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RE: grid/ring plant supports
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| I've used wire coat hangers to make my own. Use one hanger to form the ring, and cut another couple hangers into 20" lengths to form the legs. Bend the tops into a curlycue with large needle-nose pliers. If you use wire hangers, use the heavy duty wire because the lighter ones won't stand up. One word of caution, when working with wire and pliers, for safety hold your materials away from your body and face. Cheryl |
RE: grid/ring plant supports
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| For peonies I lay chicken wire on the ground and put a metal stake on either end. As the plants grow up through it, I slowly raise the wire mesh. tj |
RE: grid/ring plant supports
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| Depends on how high you want the supports. At Lowes, they have bags of bamboo plant supports for $5 or less and you get about 25-30 of them and they are about four feet tall if I remember. And you can cut them with a good sharp pair of clippers. I use them and some green jute twine from the same section the bamboo is sold in. For heavier plants, they also carry green plastic coated metal poles, various sizes, up to 6' feet tall I think. The 6' tall ones are a couple of bucks and the price goes down from there. I used one each on each of my tomato plants last year with no problem. Good luck with what you find! |
RE: grid/ring plant supports
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When the garden catalogs, like Springhill, offer $25 off if you spend $25, I take advantage of it to order the plant supports in several sizes. They come out to be about $1.80 each after postage. And just yesterday I saw some at W-M for $1.89 that were the plain circle without the grid in the middle. Okay for some plants.
I have also cut the legs shorter on tomato cages to create a plant support.
Better sign off, I need to get outside and set up some of these supports as the garden plants are popping up.
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RE: grid/ring plant supports
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- Posted by danaoh SWOhio zone 6 (My Page) on
Thu, May 8, 08 at 12:38
| I found some really neat metal wine bottle holders at the ts - put those over my peony plants |
RE: grid/ring plant supports
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| Two things I do: I throw the cut off branches from my Christmas tree in my garden after Christmas. The pine needles become mulch. By the time my dahlias come up, I have the supports I need right where I want them. Just stick upright into the ground! Biodegradeable! Second: Ask a cemetary if you can have all the metal wreath holders. They just throw these away. |
RE: grid/ring plant supports
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| We cut the tomato cages into a couple of ring supports and they seem to work well for many perennials. They are really inexpensive in yard sales. Forgot to put one around my peony this year so DH used jute twine and a few sticks. It's not pretty but it will soon be hidden by the foliage. |
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