The excellent Shayla ( http://shaylas-journal.blogspot.com/ ) has posted today about using vine eyes and wire to make use of vertical spaces in the garden. This struck home as this morning I was using just this system to secure a rampant Iceberg rose to a fence in one of my customers' gardens. The idea is that vine eyes are screwed into fence posts or a wall, wires are then passed through them and climbing plants tied onto the wires for support. the usual way to screw in the vine eye is to drill a pilot hole then screw in the eye passing screw driver through then hole to use as a lever....
Vine eye
However I have found that rather than sticking a screwdriver through the hole even easier is to use a "Gator" wrench.
This will grip the head of the vine eye and screw it in easy as - well just easy! The splines in the wrench grip anything, any shape up to about half an inch which can be really useful, I always Carry one in the tool box in the back of the van (Gloria) since it can save me having to carry half a dozen sockets and spanners. Other than this little bit of technique I have to endorse every word of Shayla's comments. Indeed I hope to grow a peach or nectarine against a wall in my own garden using this system, when I have the time.Next week how many uses are there for a pencil..............
That looks a real handy gadget, with one of those in my handbag I would never need another man ever again!!! I'm going to go back and link this post to mine if thats ok.
ReplyDeleteThanks, yes it is realy usefull, but we men do still have some uses.....wait I will think of something soon, Oh yes if it wasn't for us there wouldn't be so much washing up and irioning to keep you all busy
ReplyDeleteAnd WOW my first link!
"Next week how many uses there are for a pencil..."
ReplyDeleteNot including marking up music???