If using wooden fence post consider using post saver sleeves. They are basically a bitumen/hard plastic sleeve that you apply using a blow torch or a good heat gun. They look like they are built to last. Recently got our post attached with this with a 15 year guarantee for an extra fiver. The local shop has been here for over 15 years so hoping they will be around for another 15!
I also have our pergola/trellis on a 1m spike metpost; getting them in correctly can be tricky. If using these, a half meter-long offset to hammer them in is helpful. Make sure to check with a spirit level and you may need to adjust your hammering direction from time to time as they have a tendency to rotatate around the axis.
Thanks people, but this was completed 2 years ago.
I used concrete spurs 120cm long with 10cm posts fixed to the spurs 5cm above the soil using Stainless bolts.
Used 125mm feathered boards with a 25mm overlap and 88mm x 44mm rails, everything screwed not nailed. Used wooden gravel boards sitting on a bed of gravel.
Reason for using Wood fencing as wanted to keep even spacing throughout the length of the garden and to me they more attractive than concrete full posts and boards. The smooth side is on my side.
Thanks for the replies, but as said its all completed.
South Monmouthshire stuck in the middle between George and the Dragon
The problem with those concrete gravel boards is that there’s no way of making a way for hedgehogs to move from one garden to another to feed and ‘meet’ with other hedgehogs 🦔 ☹️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
my mother has this type of fence, she's cut a hole in the bottom of a panel and then built a ramp, you'd be surprised how well hedgehogs climb, i had one in my garden this year shin up a 2 foot tall drystone wall that was almost vertical!
That’s good to hear @treehugger. I hear so many folk saying they never see hedgehogs nowadays, and then discover that their gardens are the hedgehog equivalent of Alcatraz ☹️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
i rehome and mark all of mine individually, last year I had 9 different ones in my garden, i've had three this year, one of which visited last year, my mum's just got video of three hedgehogs in the same feeding station in her garden as well this year
@WonkyWomble lives right in the middle of a large town ...a really densely populated area ... all tarmac and concrete except for a few of the Victorian houses in her street which have gardens with slightly dilapidated fences and gates etc ... last night she watched a hedgehog hoovering up some spilt sunflower seeds in her back garden ... she was feeding it last year (cat biscuits and water) ... she said this morning that now that he/she’s about again she’ll put the cat biscuits out again. 🦔
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I also have our pergola/trellis on a 1m spike metpost; getting them in correctly can be tricky. If using these, a half meter-long offset to hammer them in is helpful. Make sure to check with a spirit level and you may need to adjust your hammering direction from time to time as they have a tendency to rotatate around the axis.
I used concrete spurs 120cm long with 10cm posts fixed to the spurs 5cm above the soil using Stainless bolts.
Used 125mm feathered boards with a 25mm overlap and 88mm x 44mm rails, everything screwed not nailed.
Used wooden gravel boards sitting on a bed of gravel.
Reason for using Wood fencing as wanted to keep even spacing throughout the length of the garden and to me they more attractive than concrete full posts and boards. The smooth side is on my side.
Thanks for the replies, but as said its all completed.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I hear so many folk saying they never see hedgehogs nowadays, and then discover that their gardens are the hedgehog equivalent of Alcatraz ☹️
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.