My new lottie has no fencing around it,just a bit of orange tape to mark the plot.
I need to put up some fencing just as a temporary measure until the budget allows for a decent one.
has anyone used debris netting for this as it seems quite cheap?
any suggestions most welcome.
found it ok matey, pretty rabbit proof too. I use that orange barrier stuff (£18 screwfix)
Do the rules specify fencing? Most plots just have an obligatory pathway. If you just want a fence rather than have to have a fence then you should master the art of skipping. (Not the rope sort).
Quote from: Eristic on September 30, 2009, 22:46:43
Do the rules specify fencing? Most plots just have an obligatory pathway. If you just want a fence rather than have to have a fence then you should master the art of skipping. (Not the rope sort).
council guy said fencing is fine as long as no concrete is used.
do you mean skip diving?
if so I managed to cadge some wood yesterday,looks like scaffold board so may use for raised beds.
its a house refurb and the guy says he has a lot more stuff and i am welcome to it.
right next to where I am collecting my seaweed too so spot on.
Debris netting is about the cheapest way out to fence your lotty off, normally two metres wide, cut it down the middle and stretch it between two posts with support posts between, I'm doing doing this for next year to keep my lotty neighbours dog off my lotty, :)
I used chicken wire 4ft high its just the job, i managed to get a 50m roll for nothing , i got my posts from someone down the allotments and spaced them 1.8m apart
OH made a 56' fence from pallets & it looks great.
We got some chicken wire cheap off ebay but not got round to doing it yet - still got ours blocked off with old bits of ikea units propped up between canes. Quite a few people have used pallets on our site which seems to be a really cheap way of doing it as most big industrial estates here have them lying about everywhere for the taking. Just stake some wood into the ground and then lower the pallets over it.
thanks all
just looking for something qucik and cheap.
Wilkinson's wire mesh (probably out of stock now though as it's seasonal) and posts or pallets. Wire mesh does have it's problems e.g. you can't strim right up to the fence; weeds grow into the mesh and are hard to disentangle etc
I disagree with Eristic (sorry!) fencing depends on the site. Plots on our site are mostly all fenced probably because the site is not fenced. If they're not fenced people let their dogs run all over your plot and passers by find it more easy to help themselves.
Thanks,
I need some form of fencing even if its not permenant.
It is a site of 20 plots that has been unused for a couple of decades so there are no paths or anything to define the plots other than tape/stakes.
People are walking over everyones plots at the moment as its so difficult to see where the paths are supposed to be.
I went to my plot this morning to find a large pile of rubbish on it where someone has cleared their plot and mistaken mine for the path. >:(