Thanks Lovely lady, I have watched several on netting and you were the first to show exactly how to put it in. Very thankful❤❤ I live in windyville as well. God bless you! Thanks for all the flower tips 2.
SO TRUE ABOUT PROTECTING YOUR INVESTMENT (GLADS) ETC. I HAD ALOT OF "FUN" WATCHING YOU PUTTING THOSE POSTS IN. I WATCH YOU WHEN I NEED TO BE CHEERED-UP. YOU NEVER LET ME "DOWN". BLESSING TO YOU NICOLE!
I feel you on the rocks. The property we are in the process of taking over has what feels like a slab of rocks about 8-12". Everywhere you go to stick something in the ground, rocks!
This is the vid I’ve been looking for! Great! Thank you! Side note on T posts: those pointy parts have gone through my shoe sole when I tried stepping them into the ground. Be careful!!
First of all, I'm too short to use a T post driver😂, so my men folk do it for me, but my hubby highly recommends wearing ear protection when you are driving them. 😊
Wow - a mini post-rammer! I didn't even know they existed... I have been using hubby's great big one: what a mission raising that thing over my head to get over the top of a t-post! I set up my first length of netting like you did: I measured 1m between posts and rammed them in...and then found there was too much tension (or not enough), and had to move posts around. I also realised that if my posts weren't plumb, then the tension changed depending on how high I set the netting. In the end, I drove in one end post, making sure it was plumb, and then threaded the netting over it, sliding it to the ground. Then I pulled the netting taught widthways across the bed, made a mark, and then drove the other corner post through the netting into that mark - VERY awkward without help, but doable. After that, I rolled out the netting, and pulled it taught lengthways to mark the ground for the remaining corner posts, and repeated the process for driving them in. The tension is so much better with a timber batten (or length of plastic conduit piping, bamboo stake, or similar) threaded through each end of the netting; it also prevents the plastic netting snapping against the posts. I just weave a batten - a little longer than the width of the netting - in and out of the grid squares, and then sit it behind the corner posts. Extra supports halfway down the bed (or every 5m or so), helps maintain the tension and height for the length of the bed. The whole process is much faster with an extra pair of hands ;)
11/22/21- now Watching FHF day 22 straight and playing continously in the background noise, and until I can I buy some merch to support FHF , I hope I can push the algorithm BECUZ ALL GARDNERS NEEDS A FAIRY GARDEN LIKE YOU IN THIER LIVES!!! 💚🤎💚🤎
OMG, It’s great to get this technique demonstrated but my nerves jangled every time you banged down on that post driver thing!!! But it was helpful, thank you!
Have you tried step in posts? They are about half the price here in TN and a lot easier to put in but I’m not sure about how they would hold up in your wind/climate but it might be something to look into. I love your channel! I’m a newbie to flowers but you’ve inspired me to start 🥰
@@FlowerHillFarm Great Idea! My feet aren't as wide as regular Crocs, so my fave style are the Freestyle Crocs....more streamlined and no straps to deal with! :)
That “turning up” is called Apical Dominance 😉....just in case you wanted to know.Can you reuse the netting year to year? Just bought a 50’ piece and am hoping to use it again...hubby vetoed to 300’ roll 😂😂
Do you save your glad corms for the next year.? Or can you save them... And thus just keep ordering some replenish stock or add an extra single variety or two every year to just keep expanding..?..ps thank you I love your informative videos...your time is much appreciated...
I pry underground rocks in my soil out with an old hops bar. I'm a half hour south of Utica so think we may have similar soil. A hops bar (or digging bar) is a heavy steel bar about 5-6 feet long with a pointed bulb on its end. It's heavy enough to drive into the ground when dropped and the pointed tip is used to pry under the rock. An old neighbor farmer showed me how he uses it for post-hole digging. Works like a charm! I couldn't do any planting or fence post digging without it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digging_bar)
That is so cool, now I don't have to stake every stinking dahlia like I have done for three years. Where were you and this info? LOL thank-you so much.
Ohh, my bad, it’s phototropism, I got my terms confused. Apical dominance is what we break when we pinch back to let the side shoots start to produce. 🤷🏼♀️ lol