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miketaylor
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How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 10:29:07 »
Hi - perhaps I'm being a bit thick again - but how do you hold down weed control membrane? I've just laid 20 metres of the stuff between the raised beds that I built, but at the moment I've got half bricks pinning it to the ground. Are there any pins you can buy to hold it to the earth? It looks like one good strong wind will carry it all away. Any help from the team here would be most welcome. I intend to cover it with bark chippings but they aren't very heavy...
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Derekthefox
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 10:31:17 »
I would be inclined to tuck the edges under the soil, I have done this with other sheeting materials and it seems to work ...
Derekthefox :D
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Jesse
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 10:44:44 »
You can buy pegs to hold it down, I think
these
people do them. I use bricks and old concrete slabs, if I run out I use a layer of soil around the edges, not the tidiest way but it works. I'm not sure how well the pegs would work at a windy allotment like ours.
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wardy
Hectare
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 10:52:05 »
My sheeting has just blown off for the second time so I need to get more
peg
s!
I got some from the internet - from the Garden Superstore - 21 p each. They look better than weighing it down with bricks, water-filled bottles, sand bags, wheelbarrow, pallets etc as mine is. Looks a right mess. The spikes are more efficient and don't look a mess :)
You could make your own but if you look at the ones on the above site it will give you a good idea what to do. When you put them in don't bang em in hard with your foot or they go out of shape :)
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miketaylor
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 15:59:29 »
Thanks team. Exactly what i was looking for. Although having now had a browse around I've also spent another 20 quid on must have stuff... ho hum...
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MaryM
Quarter Acre
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 16:02:14 »
Our local wood recycling company in Brighton gives allmonteers free pallets and I use these for holding down the membrane
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wardy
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 16:43:24 »
I've put some one mine but they don't look very smart ;D Mind you once all the weeds are dead then the black plastic all over the place will be a thing of the past. I hope :)
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vee
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Ashton-under-Lyne, near Manchester
Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 19:07:10 »
I use the wire coathangers you get from the dry cleaners and make them into very long u-shaped pins with a pair of pliers. One coathanger makes a few. I have only done this where I have put bark chippings on top but it has worked very well so far and costs nothing. None of my fabric has come up again so far. I have seen plastic pegs at the garden centre but they are quite expensive.
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Derekthefox
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 20:57:41 »
I think we are all living in hope Wardy, I certainly am ...
Derekthefox :D
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BAGGY
Hectare
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 22:20:45 »
They replaced the chain-link fence roundour lotty and i 'found' some of the wire so bent that into u shapes and that works well too.
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miketaylor
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 22:54:07 »
coathangers or "borrowed" wire - brilliant ideas. I can see exactly how that would work. 10/10. Thanks.
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wardy
Hectare
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 19, 2005, 23:00:04 »
I bought some but then realised the cheapo dry cleaner wire coathangers would work well so have been scrounging round the charity shops :)
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John_H
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 21, 2005, 19:06:55 »
I use a mixture of tent pegs, bricks, knitting needles from charity shops, heating bricks from old night storage heaters and supermarket carrier bags full of soil and soya milk boxes re-filled with water.
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wardy
Hectare
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 21, 2005, 20:04:20 »
You don't care what yer lotty looks like either then ;D
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Derekthefox
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Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 21, 2005, 21:54:08 »
Well it is a lottie Wardy, not a show garden !!!
Derekthefox :D
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jennym
Hectare
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Essex/Suffolk border
Re: How do you hold down weed control membrane?
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December 22, 2005, 16:13:40 »
You can also buy fixing pegs from Kays:
http://www.kaysdiscountgarden.co.uk/cgi-bin/site-editor.pl/14/-search?eid=297739&pid=32782&q=fixpeg100
They do packs of 100 for £8.40, or 1000 for £59.33, but their minimum order value is £15 and delivery is £5.50.
I have bought pegs from them along with strong porous ground cover for weed control (not landscaping fabric which is flimsier) and they seem good quality.
They take orders by telephone and online.
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