I use rebar. You can hammer it right thru plastic pots. I have never had a brug fall over when staking with it. I also have made a triangle around my pots using rebar. I like it because it is fairly inexpensive and it will last a long, long time. Some may ask, what is rebar, it is steel rods used in construction. It can be bought at HD & lowes.
STAKING BIG BRUGS or BRUGS in POTS ABOVE GROUND
Thank you Larry.
Last week I was chasing 20 gal pots all over the neighborhood. Looks like my Hubby has a job for this weekend...lol
I don't recall seeing a potted brug in a clay or ornamental pot. Do you guys not use that sort of pot because it's heavier and can break??
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I use basically, the black nursery pots. For stakes, I had a guy in town bend some iron so that they had a candy cane curve in the top and I just push them into the ground with the curved part over the lip of the pot. Works very well and easy to get ahold of to pull out in the fall. Takes two or three per pot.
Shirley posted: Works very well and easy to get ahold of to pull out in the fall.
Great idea. I wonder if those stakes, at Lowes, that are green plastic, with 'metal', or something that is hard to bend, would do the same thing?? That way, I wouldn't have to locate a welder. But I will find something because I hate the wind blowing them over, etc. SLike
Don't waist your time on those green coated stakes for brugs. They are not strong enough. As for clay pots, I would not use because they will absorb more water than the plant does, plus absorb your fertilizer and look [deleted].
I agree. They just bend way too easy to use for staking a brug.
hammer-nut posted: Some may ask, what is rebar, it is steel rods used in construction
Does rebar come in different lengths?? I don't get the triangle concept...do you make a triangle for each pot and how do you bend the rebar?? I really like the iron 'candy cane' stakes Shirley mentioned, but I would prefer something I could make myself. Any other ideas for stakes?? Shirley, do you have the iron stakes made in different lengths??? The only thing, except the iron or rebar, I can think of would be dowel sticks - ya think they would work??? I really need something to keep the plastic pots in place and to keep them for turning over. TIA!!! SherryLike
Do you know if there are ready made stakes, that can be purchased, to stake plastic pots? TIA!!! SLike
REBAR!
(hitting self on the head)
Why didn't I think of that!
Thanks, Larry :)
I saw Brugies Candy canes and they work great,I guess I need to start working on this before long.
Well, call me dense, I cannot picture Brugie's candy canes or how they would work. Can you post a pic for us slowbees Brugie?
LOL Larry, I was saying to myself what is rebar and then I read you answer. Made me smile. I have been buying the redwood stakes that are 5 or 6 ft but they are about $6 or $7 dollars now I am afraid to reuse them because of the SB scare. I will check out rebar. Is it visually pleasing? thanks?
Kell,I can not tell you the exact dimensions,but as I recall,it is a small piece of metal,1/8 inch steel,and about 2ft long,Shirley had a man,bend the ends,so it looks like a candy cane,then she takes about 3 and puts the around the pot,pushes them in the ground,with the curl hooking into the rim of the pot.
Thanks Root, Brugie sent me a picture and tutorial for kindergartners. LOL for some reason I was trying to figure out how it would stake a big brug up but she is using them to stabilize her pots.
LOL,And I still can not get a picture in my head of Larrys triangle.
rootdoctor posted: LOL,And I still can not get a picture in my head of Larrys triangle.
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Oh Root, we must be brother and sister!
Ya'll are to much. Just poke three in the shape of a triangle or two on either side for a straight line.
Are these Rebar stakes used for both staking the plant AND stabilizing the pot?
And you force them through the pot, into the ground?
Hummernut, is a two foot stake long enough to accomplish this -- my pots are two feet to start with.
Or is the stabilization another matter entirely --
Larry posted: Just poke three in the shape of a triangle or two on either side for a straight line.
Oh, I 'think' I get it. You put three rods in the pots and hammer them into the ground to keep them from falling over. Same thing, I guess, that Shirley does, you just leave them straight, instead of the 'candy cane' to pull them outta the ground. Ya see, I visualized you making a triangle out of the rebarb welded together, some sorta way, but I couldn't figure out how you got it on the pots tight enough to keep the plants from falling over. Duh?? Now, I think I see...right??
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You got it. It would probably be easier to remove them if you could bend the top into a loop. What I do is work them back and forth to loosen them, then pull like $#%@. Easier done after a good rain.
Shirley hooks hers on the outside of the pots.the curl holds the pot down.
Larry,some of the ones I pulled were in pretty good!I may have mumbled a few words.
I'm waiting for the pictures........
I guess I am right in assuming that you do all this stabilizing before you put soil and plant into pot?
What is the system with a filled pot?
Poly ,
Brugie posted;
"I use basically, the black nursery pots. For stakes, I had a guy in town bend some iron so that they had a candy cane curve in the top and I just push them into the ground with the curved part over the lip of the pot. Works very well and easy to get ahold of to pull out in the fall. Takes two or three per pot."
You could use re-bar or the step-in type metal fence posts the farmers use for temp. electric fencing.