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Any genius’ out there?

zy700657zy700657 Posts: 8
in Problem solving
Hey!

I am wanting to fence around my allotment but have found this is a ridiculously expensive process! Does anyone have any genius ideas of how to do this whilst keeping the cost down?


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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    genii?
     ;) 
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Even geniuses need photos😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • zy700657zy700657 Posts: 8
    What? You can’t do it from just imagination?  :open_mouth:  ;)
    I’ll post some photos this afternoon when I pop to the allotment! 
  • GreenbirdGreenbird Posts: 237
    edited May 2020
    Picket fence from pallets

    DIY Woven willow fence 

    Roll of plastic garden fencing stretched between posts. 
  • KeenOnGreenKeenOnGreen Posts: 1,831
    Are you allowed to do so, we are not at our allotments?  What do you need to keep out?  We have Muntjac deer, and they can jump over 1.2 metres.  Foxes will dug under anything not sunk into the ground.  Would it not be better to net individual crops/beds, depending on what you are planting in them?

    A fence won't necessarily keep the critters out, but this is what we see some plotholders use to fence individual raised beds.  We haven't seen it used to fence a whole plot.  I assume it's quite cheap to buy.  
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We need to know the purpose of the fence ... do you want to keep someone out ... rabbits, vegetable pirates, other people’s dogs? Or do you want to keep someone in ... your own children, your own dogs?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    I drove past some  ( closed and locked up ) allotments yesterday and there were half a dozen sheep happily munching away
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Those Mexicans would do it, now that Trump seems to have forgotten them for his wall.....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Wire fencing.
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