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Deer damage
always carefully avoid them!  Hmmmm! If you look in deer parks young trees are protected by a circle of wire netting secured to a stake.  But you must take into account that deer will stand on their hind legs to get at tasty morsels. Better to keep them by Zaney
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06/08/2012 10:50:07
by Welshonion
Carol Klein's Life in a Cottage Garden
plants, prunes, stakes and nurtures her treasures. I'll be glued. Anyone else?  Me for definite. Gives me my gardening TV fix while waiting for Gardeners World to come back on I've set a reminder last week , I have the book and am really looking forward by Steve Taylor2
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09/01/2013 22:37:28
by hollie hock
Garden of rented property - design advice
Last spring we moved into a rented house with a garden (my first garden!) and a separate patio area.  The garden is a rectangular lawn surrounded by stake fencing and newly planted hawthorn hedging but the fencing is quite low and the hedging by nicky99
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14/01/2013 14:00:32
by nicky99
Plant identity needed
facing is best.  Give it some water when you remember (about once a fortnight seems just fine).  Then forget about it for a while.  Eventually it will produce a long green shoot, which you will need to tie on to some sort of thin stake, and flowers by tony williams2
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20/01/2013 19:39:57
by Rosa carriola
Cosmos seeds.
that the Summer was so poor as they would have done even better, as soon as they got into their own Autumn arrived. I will stake mine this year as some of them got battered by all that rain and wind They lopk really great if you plant them in big drifts and go by daydaisy
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26/02/2013 16:33:52
by daydaisy
Raspberries
against a fence you just plant them around six inches from fence and cut them down to the ground around feb or march and they dont need any staking,blackcurrants grow into a big bush unless you prune them also gooseberries you plant them the same by lorrainespooner
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02/03/2013 14:35:57
by lorrainespooner
Gypsophial
it - do you sow direct or have them in trays first?   I grew 2 different ones; one from roots bought cheaply, even after 3 years it is frail and needs staking. The other one was an expensive pot with a more sturdy variety, with slightly different leaves by Joan Allport
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13/04/2013 18:42:02
by artjak
Brussels sprouts
in the ground to avoid 'wind-shake', and I make sure the soil is well stamped on, and some of the taller plants I stake,but some of the plants still go astray. They are grown at the allotment, which is on the side of a south-facing hill, and I spread Growmore by Pentillie
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15/04/2013 20:37:05
by Pentillie
fruit trees
, back-filling the hole and firming the soil with your heel as you go.  Water well and at least once a week for the rest of the year so that the roots can become well established.  I would also put in stakes and use tree-ties to protect against  wind by Tel3
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17/04/2013 22:40:23
by BobTheGardener
Advice Needed!
be able to supply some stakes (2 inch x 2inch) for the corners and to support long sides. This invariably works out much better value than the ready made ones and is quite sufficient for veg growing. Hope this makes sense and helps. by Bridget Langham
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21/05/2013 00:08:11
by Tootsietim