Best plant support garden stakes according to redditors
We found 47 Reddit comments discussing the best plant support garden stakes. We ranked the 26 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 47 Reddit comments discussing the best plant support garden stakes. We ranked the 26 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
If there’s enough wind to move your shed, concrete blocks screwed to the bottom of it aren’t going to change anything. As someone else said, pour proper piers with sonotubes and install proper anchors in the wet concrete. Research local building codes to determine what size/depth these piers need to be. If you don’t use piers, at least pour proper footings for each corner and don’t rely on a pile of gravel to support the shed - the gravel and dirt will settle and the shed along with it. If you use this method, use shed anchors. Again, consult local codes and possibly your insurance company.
You're not wrong to be delicate here, you live next to the guy, you cant just make an enemy out of a single conversation.
My neighbor doesn't like people parking on his grass (theres no curb) so he put these up.
https://www.amazon.com/Rebound-Driveway-Markers-Penetrating-Installation/dp/B016AEUIHE/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?keywords=reflective+posts+for+driveways&qid=1563492559&s=gateway&sprefix=reflective+posts&sr=8-4
Stick those in the ground to mark your property line until winter. Maybe make it a windmill so he thinks its just a decoration.
It would be fairly difficult to drive regular stakes into an apartment floor, so use a bigger hammer and these instead: https://www.amazon.com/Pinnacle-Mercantile-Stakes-Ground-Anchors/dp/B07N139PWF
It might be easier if you sharpen the points.
Save them from what? Let them sprawl, or get taller stakes. Use this: https://www.amazon.com/Jumbo-Thick-Stretch-Ribbon-Garden/dp/B00M8MTNVU/ref=pd_sim_86_3?ie=UTF8&dpID=21yTkJSh%2BNL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&psc=1&refRID=0SK6NM7NJS62XZQD7R2C. Staking annual plants means walking to the back of the shed, sorting the throwaway junk and being resourceful.
Thank you! To your first question: the vines that were damaged had a lot of nodes, which made propagating very easy. I basically cut the stems (internodes) below the nodes, dipped the ends in rooting hormone, and set them in a clear glass cup with water. Once they root, I'm shipping them out to my friends!
To your second question: Get a trellis instead of a moss pole!
https://www.houseplantjournal.com/home/monstera-trellis
I purchased this off of Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SHFWXQ7/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and I use green rubber ties to tame the beast into a form that I like.
Gorruck 34L GR2 Coyote Tan - a good bag, heavy, uncomfortable, probably give it to my grandchildren in like 50 years
Flip Flops - generic things
Bigblue 28W solar charger - very good, can charge my battery up during the day if i leave it in the sun which I've never really done honestly
Jakemy hardware tools - seamed useful? i've never needed this
Army glove shells - i thought i used these a lot and were indistructable but now that i think of it, i don't use them that often and are probably pretty cheaply made.
Sharpie, pen, all weather notebook - probably should switch over to a fisher space pen...
Straws - these are probably already broken.
Whistle - really really really loud
Fire-striker, matches, lighter - i'm not sure i have enough ways to start a fire
Fresnel lens - ok, now i have enough
LED flashlight - i used to go running in the middle of the night with this flashlight, its tiny
LED flashlight - this isn't the one i have but looks kinda similar? i don't remember where i got mine
Earbuds - generic cheap earbuds
Leatherman Surge - given to me by my wife for passing the bar. thanks wife!
First Aide kit - i put mine together from stuff i've stolen from friends houses whenever i go over and use the bathroom
playing cards - these look very similar to the ones i have, they are plastic so they won't get rained on
glasses/ sunglasses - i have really bad vision
personal hygiene kit - aahhhh dry shaving
Sawyer Mini / syringe, collapsible canteen (dirty), heavy duty straw - i've never used this
collapsible canteen (clean) - i've never used this either
sewing kit - i've used this a lot
ID tags - i guess if i get blown up they'll know my blood type?
garbage bag - for when my pockets are full
elastic bands - i use these when packing to keep rolled socks and things from falling apart
Salt - i have nooooo idea why i have this
cooking grate - i'm not going to hold meat over a fire with a stick like some sort of caveman
heavy duty ziplock bag - in case my mapcase breaks and other reasons
rip-patch - leftover from when i needed a pack because i bought a crummy cheap inflatable sleeping pad.
Army Fleece Beanie - i always keep this at the top of my pack
4 Bungie Cords - not the one i use but similar. to make a field-expedient shelter
Trowel - for disposal of biological wastes
Lensatic compass - because GPS should only be a backup
Pocketboy 130 folding saw - i have a bigger one for yardwork, this small one is really great
Tent stakes - for tent staking
Ravpower 26800 Battery - use this all the time can fast chage my stuff
Battery Battery holder, cables, wall charger - all fits togehter like glove!
Army Poncho - wear it, make a tent out of it etc
Microfiber towel - not the one i use but similar. i mainly use this for when the kids accidentally fall in a lake like they tend to do for some reason
Down Jacket - cheap chinese knockoff... i feel bad for not buying american
Wet weather top - not sure this is worth the space/weight
Wet Weather bottom - not sure if this is worth the weight/space
Silkweights - PJs! and warmth
Jungle Blanket - this is a lot better than the army's woobie. lighter and warmer
Gransfors Bruks Wildlife Hatchet - again, gift from wife. she wanted me to chop things and be more manly, generally. now i come home with parts of wildlife for her to cook
Map of New England - or, how i stopped worrying and love dismounted land navigation
PT belt - keeps me safe in all situations
Compression straps - i don't like lashing things to the outside but i guess i can if i wanted to
Fork and Spoon - stole these from the kitchen. i'll probably be replacing this soon with something titanium.
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EDIT: i just priced it out: $1,585.08 total
https://www.amazon.com/Bamboo-Stakes-Natural-foot-Bag/dp/B00BFIRCZW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1524585750&sr=8-4&keywords=bamboo+rod
https://www.starlinebrass.com/brass-cases/357-Mag-Brass/
https://www.amazon.com/ELMERS-2024691-Elmers-Liquid-Washable/dp/B072MHQDZR/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1524585971&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=elmers+glue+gallon&psc=1
You're right, with $60 in material you can make 250 4" tampers (.24 cents a piece) with a net profit of $2,190. Gold mine, I didn't take into account the market segment of aggressive tampers who have a problem breaking them. I'm not trying to be a dick but your argument is invalid.
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Landscape stakes. Maybe Suncast brand
https://www.amazon.com/Suncast-SS400-Garden-Edging-Stakes/dp/B06XK4XLXS
I wish my eye was that great! Thanks to you providing the name of the tent, I was able to look it up.
Okay, to set it up in high winds, try imagining it in high winds. Let's also pretend that the pin and ring system will hold securely in the end of the pole.
Pull out the end of your tent you want facing into the wind out and stake it down. Unroll the rest of your tent. Slide all your tent poles through and secure the far end. Finish pushing the tent poles through to create the arch, but leave the arches on the ground. When the tent poles are all in, pull out the other end of the tent to pop up the tent, and stake it down. Now put in the rest of the stakes and guylines.
Doing it this way kind of works with the wind instead of against it.
Bigger stakes are a good idea. Stakes pulling out is a big reason why big tents fail. Using the guy lines will also help the tent keep its shape in the wind and prevent the poles from bending to failure. I love that you can go crazy with stakes when you're car camping, so you could use these bonkers stakes if you wanted to...and there are even more extreme stakes available. That said, I usually use these stakes and 3d print new heads when the originals break.
You can get one of those metal/plastic cage trellis,
Plastic Support :
https://www.amazon.com/Support-Plastic-Climbing-Conical-Supporter/dp/B0739LPSQ2/ref=sr_1_23?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1501195143&sr=1-23&keywords=plant+trellis
Bamboo Kit :
https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Color-Bamboo-Trellis-inches/dp/B014K2TMKC/ref=sr_1_4?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1501195143&sr=1-4&keywords=plant+trellis
Bamboo Sticks :
https://www.amazon.com/Hydrofarm-HGBB4-Natural-Bamboo-Stake/dp/B0051GUQO8/ref=pd_sim_86_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B0051GUQO8&pd_rd_r=PP1M895S9SY5WETWXRFQ&pd_rd_w=tmahT&pd_rd_wg=zF6sb&psc=1&refRID=PP1M895S9SY5WETWXRFQ
Search :
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_st_price-asc-rank?keywords=plant+trellis&rh=n%3A2972638011%2Cn%3A3610851%2Cn%3A3480694011%2Cn%3A3480695011%2Ck%3Aplant+trellis&qid=1501195143&sort=price-asc-rank
and use plant tie warping to attach all of them together or to the main one. Go to any home hardware shops, and long metal ones instead of bamboo...
Bamboo because it's organic and it won't affect anything, if you would use plastic one. Chances are that there is chemicals that can affect the plant if the product is not specifically made for plants.
This spring I started a garden on my deck in Philadelphia. This was really the first time I gardened anything seriously and I’ve enjoyed myself immensely. Skip to the bottom for the album of it all.
I primarily started my plants from seeds without researching how they grow:
I quickly realized that I needed to be creative about how to manage these plants as a lot of them grow out instead of staying compact. Once the plants outgrew their medium sized pots, I needed a different solution. The major unlock for me was finding CaliKim's container gardening videos on YouTube that recommended planter bags. She also has a great method of making cage trellises that work perfectly in the bags she recommended.
With this starting point I was able to get these plants into a compact space and still be able to thrive. Because I’ve got everything on top of each other there is some inter-mingling but for the most part things stay in their cages.
My deck faces south and with the egregious Philadelphia summer I sometimes have to water twice a day to keep everything happy. I have done a lot of pruning to keep the plants reigned in and not way overgrow their plot.
As the project progressed I realized I needed bamboo stakes to stabilize the cages and my non caged plants, and a few other random items listed below:
The watermelon needed hammocks to fend off gravity in this system, pole around YouTube for different ways people have done this
In my research I got disheartened several times because many said growing watermelon or cucumber or squash in a compact space is extremely challenging and arguably not worth it. At that point I had already started the plants and I decided to give it a try anyway. To my delight things have turned out very well, and I wanted to share with any other urban gardeners who think they don’t have enough space for veggies.
Next year I would grow more cucumbers and cage them instead of stake them (or maybe both). For the winter my plan is to leave the bags and soil outside and see how they hold up. It seems like they are able to handle snow / excess moisture without too much issue.
https://imgur.com/gallery/jCqiEQH
What about something like this? You could screw it in and attach an adjustable rope/strap to add some tension. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XX3FFV3/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_2ha7CbG68EM67
I have a couple of fiberglass stakes that have a joint in the middle, similar to a tent pole. I got them from Sotabeams, but they no longer carry them. I haven't been able to find anything like it, with the joint. It's like these plant stakes, but only about 3' long assembled, with a joint in the middle.
https://www.amazon.com/EcoStake-5-Feet-2-Inch-Ecofriendly-Stakes/dp/B018TOG5FW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1500486082&sr=8-4&keywords=fiberglass+plant+stake
Landscape stapes.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NIDNOX6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_iPyUAbSWTJNQP
Hydrofarm HGBB4 4' Natural Bamboo Stake, pack of 25 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0051GUQO8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_8q6VBbFVENQVH
There are other sizes.
Winds at Burning Man can exceed 60mph and will pick up anything that isn't secured properly. At BM everyone uses 2-3 foot rebar to secure their tents from blowing away in the strong winds (or the new hotness, 18" lag bolts).
Sounds like the organizers think the winds at the location are strong enough to warrant using rebar.
If you've never used rebar before, you need a small sledgehammer to drive them into the ground, vice grips to pull them out, tennis balls to cap the ends to people don't slash their legs open when stumbling over them in the night. Also if you get rebar with a loop at the end or J hook rebar they are much easier to pull out since you can use another piece of rebar as leverage when pulling it out.
No joke there... I got these ones to use at Electric Forest and stake down our canopies with ratchet straps and I'm way pleased with them! Also love that you called them lollipop sticks.... BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Probably, but I ordered from Amazon.
I got 4 foot stakes, and now wish I had gotten 5 or 6 feet long.
Stakes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0051GUQO8/ref=twister_B011BDKNR4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Clips: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M4QHL5Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1
You can probably lower the HPS a bit, and the CFLs can be as close as you can get them without touching leaves. Looks great aside from the stretching though! You can keep them up by tying to a bamboo stake like one of these that you might be able to find at like Home Depot or Lowes or whatever or to a clean long thin stick, but you might actually want to tie/bend them away from the center instead of straight up so you can keep the light closer
Easy, cheap way to half ass fix it. Buy a piece of PVC or a PVC coupling where the inside diameter is just a little smaller than the outside diameter of your post. Let's say you buy a coupling. Saw it in half, longways, and grind away the stop inside. Encompass the post with the split coupling and stainless steel hose clamp the two halves together. Or you could make a splint out of something that won't rot and do the hose clamp thing. Fiberglass stakes.
A few highlights of Amazon coming through with some unique burn gear:
I got one of these bad boys, a ground stake, so my dogs could wander around more freely than tying them to a tree or table. They still get tangled but it occurs less.
>As you get closer to harvest. Your plants start feeding off their fan leaves first. How many weeks til you finish? https://www.amazon.com/Hydrofarm-HGBB4-Natural-Bamboo-Stake/dp/B0051GUQO8/ref=sr_1_3?crid=3QEH3Y9S6BBHS&keywords=tomato+sticks&qid=1556058543&s=gateway&sprefix=tomato+stick%2Caps%2C155&sr=8-3
Don't tie it up with twine or string. Try to find something like https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005CJ43D4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ZQ7SCb9CH
OR
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L4FWW1F/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_lS7SCbBB8A7A8
Tbh, if anything breaks in the process, don't worry too much. This plant grows like a weed!
Yes like these: https://www.amazon.com/OuYi-Galvanized-Landscape-Pegs-Securing-GardenStaple/dp/B077VPH29T?ref_=fsclp_pl_dp_6
Go to each one and pull the strands out. If you can see wood/paper then those are section that need to be replaced. When you replace a run, you replace the whole section. Thus you run from one closed in section on one side to the closed in section on the other. When you pull each run, there are pins holding it up. Collect them in bag and analyze them to see if they are rusted. As to the plastic that is on the floor take a flashlight and analyse it for moisture under it. If it feels like the thinness of a trashbag it's probably too thin. If the floor is entirely covered and has no open ground showing, you can (leaf, plastic) rake up any insulation sitting on the floor and just add another level of plastic and seal it into place.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026KZCXC
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MSINXV0
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071G3STKH
The downside to lags if travelling internationally is the need for an impact driver, which is difficult to transport and expensive to pick up here. Considering they only have a 2 person tent, I'm going to venture a guess and say they can't ship much equipment.
Pounding four small pieces of rebar is all of two minutes of work with a hammer. Really not so big of a deal that it needs to be completely avoided. It'd be different if they were building a large structure with dozens of stakes to pound, but it's a tiny tent with 4 stakes. No need to scare the newbies away!
OP - for a small tent, pretty much take your pick. I like these personally, since they have a big loop on them that makes it easy to attach tarps or whatever else you need to attach (like something to tie your chair or garbage bag to). The loop also makes them easy to remove - If you pour a little water in the hole, you can jiggle the first one out using pretty much anything (the hammer handle, thread your bike lock through the loop, anything), the rest can be easily pulled out using the first one through the loop for leverage.
For a small tent, you could also use large nails, lags are an option if you have access to a drill but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy one, playa staples, regular rebar (look in a construction supply store - somewhere you'd buy lumber), or even military stakes will do. You definitely need more than the tiny stakes that come with your tent, but there's no need to overthink it :)
This was actually my original plan, as I thought I would have the normal gravel base.
I honestly don't want to unseat any part of the stone base at all, as I feel I'm just asking for trouble by doing so.
I'm wondering if it's possible to drill a hole large enough in the stone base for the earth anchor type that requires a drive rod would work? It looks like the widest part of the anchor is 0.87", so a 1.00" hole should work.
Thanks, that sounds like a good approach.
Do you think this 18" stake would be good enough?
Or do you have a specific 2 foot long product in mind? The 2 foot long ones I've found so far look like they would rust easily (and don't look like much of a stake...).
Any nice jars - I use for my makeup brushes/lipsticks. I keep large ones for my worm bin. i.e. to store food waste before the worms are fed. And I need them to keep my worm farm legs submerged underwater (otherwise ants kill my worms).
Not yet but in the future I will collect wine bottles. Why? To store water and hang upside down for the garden to drip water, kind of like this one
https://www.amazon.com/Go-Bottle-Stake-Terracotta-Irrigation/dp/B01LLBW15I