Planting Under Trees - Part 9: Outriggers, costs and damage

» Cottage_Garden - Outriggers, costs and damage

I'm not sure if the cost is valid in homeowner terms -- you'd need a charger, plus supports (could use trees) and insulators. The wire is dirt cheap though and at my house has as many uses as duct tape.

I have also heard that an 18 inch or so outward slanting outrigger added to the top of as normal 7 or 8 foot fence would help.

Guess who left the nongate to the veggie garden open and lost the tops off all her newly planted bareroot daylilies?

(We don't really need to go into why they are only newly planted except to comment that this certin ly demonstrates the hardiness and steadfast survivalist tendencies of said plants.)

If you add up the restaurant tab I think even $250 might be cheap. But what a waste of perfectly good plant money!!!!!!

-- posted by Cottage_Garden