Message Board - Cricket: plastic pegs for germnation sheets
21 Sep 2010 by barry glynn
Going to attempt to cover my square ffor a while with a ,mixtur of germination sheets and some debris netting Ive ordered but I need some of the above, well a lot actually, not going through the clout nail fiasco of last season again!
Anyone know where I can get them off tinternet quickly?
What do I do? I just cut the grass.
21 Sep 2010 by barry glynn
dont bother chaps, I should have looked on the Pitchcare shop first eh?
Order them tomorrow, what a clown
What do I do? I just cut the grass.
22 Sep 2010 by jlawrence
I use standard tent pegs - work pretty well and you end up finding alsorts of other uses for them as well.
Of course there's no bounce, bend your back and put some bloody effort in.
24 Sep 2010 by Minormorris64
Standard tent pegs here as well.
What goes around, comes around
24 Sep 2010 by Martin Wythe
Has anyone tried horticultural Fleece? I have used it on large turfing jobs in hot weather to stop rapid drying.It worked really well
. I would think that it would make good germination material.
24 Sep 2010 by A J
Short mushroom pegs the best i find. Enables you pull off sheets from the sides if they are damp and pegs pop off with sheets unlike tent pegs as they can pull through the sheets ive have found.
Grow in grace...........
24 Sep 2010 by Stephen Pryor
I used horticultural fleece this year for the first time, just on the ends and it has made a massive difference to germination results.
1.5m x 100m2, 30gsm cost £30 off ebay. It’s quite thick and will definitely last a few years.
To pin the sheets down I made ~100, 50mm staples from 2.5mm thick fencing wire, cost ~£5 for a 20m roll. They work a treat.
24 Sep 2010 by jlawrence
The only fleece I've tried was so thin you could see through it. It lasted one day before being ripped to pieces in the wind.
I'll have to try that one from fleabay.
Of course there's no bounce, bend your back and put some bloody effort in.
25 Sep 2010 by mackay
Roofing nails are what I use. very cheap, stay put, hard to loose and easy to push in to even hard ground.
26 Sep 2010 by Jonathan Little
that really thin italian germination matting is dirt cheap but it actually does the job really well - in terms of pegs to hold it down - if you have any kind of unsheltered ground vulnerable to a bit of wind it will tear it to pieces if you use nails or plastic pegs etc.
The fix? well after a bit of trial and error and using a couple of paladins as very expensive metal detectors after some mistakes with nails and tent pegs in the past...... if you make yourselves a few 6"x6" square washers out of mdf and space them every 4 feet overlapping the sheets it seems to work superbly. You also get good germination after 7 to 10 days even in october. Another option is using your boundary ropes to hold them down
26 Sep 2010 by philipfish
Hi
I used 30 gm horticultural fleece to part cover my tennis court (pegged down with the plastic mushroom pegs -20p each on internet). From the photo you can seen the benifit on the area covered (left) over the uncovered area (right). Photo taken 10 days after seeding. Now used same fleece for three seasons!
Phil
26 Sep 2010 by barry glynn
Covered the 5 pitches I managed to do with a mixture of Germination sheets and debris netting held down with mushroom pegs, yellow ones so I cant hopefully lose them!
What do I do? I just cut the grass.
27 Sep 2010 by amateur
If you have any old stumps paint them white,cut them into 100mm lengths and then drill a pilot hole through the length of them get some 6 inch nails and hammer them through the pilot hole make great sheet pegs.
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