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Are these border edgings or small plant supports?

Ferdinand2000Ferdinand2000 Posts: 537
edited August 2020 in The potting shed
Another basic question.

I have found some of these things in my shed. Trying to decide whether they are intended as ornamental edgings, or supports for small plants eg either side of a row of lettuces. They are plastic covered wire.

The material is similar to some other things I have called ‘linked stakes’, which are things where each stake is an inverted L which hooks into the next one ... so 4 or 5 can make a mini enclosure to stop eg ornamental thistles falling over.

These are the smaller ones I am asking about.

Thanks

Ferdinand


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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I think it's supposed to be border edging. The only practical use I can think of for that sort of edging would be to keep a pet tortoise from roaming out of bounds. As an edging, it would just impede mowing and you'd end up with long grass at the edge of the lawn.
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Both - Lawn or path edgings which hold plants up that would otherwise flop on lawns and paths so plant supports too for lower growing but sprawling plants.    
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    I'd forgotten that those existed! 

    My gran had them around her front lawn as edging. 

    Thanks for taking me back to the 80s! 
  • Ferdinand2000Ferdinand2000 Posts: 537
    Perhaps this is why they are in the shed not the garden.

    Thanks all.

    F
    “Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Monty Don uses bits of bent wire or else woven willow or hazel hurdles to stop plants flopping over paths - just a more rustic version of what you have in your shed.  If done well they won't show under the plants but you'll notice a difference in the way the plants sit.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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