Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Chatting => Design and Construction => Topic started by: GardenShed on January 12, 2014, 22:16
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I want to put some form of fencing around the boundaries of my plot and whilst I guess you can use lots of different types of materials to cobble something together, I would still need to have some form of fence posts at intervals to which I could for example, nail battens of wood or run wire across etc. But fence posts seem expensive - are there any cheap alternatives for something fairly sturdy and that can be banged into the ground and used to attach wood / plastic / wire?
I did think of using the round fence / tree stakes, which would definitely suffice if using something like wire, but even these seem to cost a lot of money - I think they cost about 7 pound each. Then again, Perhaps I wouldn't need lots of them just a few spaced out... Any ideas for cheap fencing would be appreciated! Thanks.
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hi try a farm supplies company for 3 inch round 5 foot high fencing stakes last ones i bought where £2.00 each +vat you can nail pig or rabbit wire to them or 3x1fence rails to make a boundry marker jezza
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Also try sawmills, I got fresh milled posts 8ft x 3" x 3" for £2 each
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We are not allowed to fence our plots on our allotment :(
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neither are we .............. mind you I don't really see the need, people seem to respect paths and plot boundaries, here.
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Our allotments look like colditz....minimum 8 foot fences everywhere....
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Great for stuff then need shade but what about stuff than need sunlight?
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I'm only in my first year but the campaign to lower fences is in full swing!
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Part of our tenancy agreement is to fence our plots against rabbits -- there are quite a few that are surrounded by herris fencing, or creations made of old corrugated iron --yuck!!
Mine is fenced with posts made of cut offs of timber and chicken wire with smallish holes. Some posts now need replacing and I ma going to try the thick pieces that make up the frame of long pallets.
Mind you, if agricultural suppliers have posts ate £2 I might change my mind ;)
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I'm looking to fence off my beds from Basil Brush that seems to want to dig everything up - Yesterday it was my bean trench
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wooden pallets can be found free and recycled to make a cheap strong fence
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Hello , i made a fence around my pile of fym with pallets and was told by the man who runs the site that it's starting to look like a farmyard :mad: so i pulled it down now i got this big pile of muck on full display, there is also other people with pallet compost bins not been told :mad:
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My OH made our first little sheep shelter pen out of pallets with half-round fencing stakes (with the bark still on). The pallets were held upright and the stakes were "threaded" through the horizontal boards at the back which were then hammered into the ground with a lump hammer. If the pallets needing replacing, you just lift them up and put a new one in.
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Chat to a few local scaffolding companies for scrapped scaffold pipe. Cut down they make solid galvanised fence posts through which you can drill to feed wire strainers of fix timber straight to them using self drill fixings. put around 800mm into the ground for a solid post
Buy some black plastic caps to tap into the open top and it finishes off a treat