Presents

Some girls get perfume, some get jewelry and then there's me.  I get 45, 6 metre steel reinforcing rods and a bolt cutter, and I am delighted. Its all Monty Dons fault. Last year on Gardeners World he demonstrated how easy it is to make plant supports using reinforcing rods. As ever with my garden I need loads and buying proprietary ones would be totally price prohibitive. Not that our supports were exactly a give away.

First find a strong man - well in my case John had to do!
Measure and cut.

Find the right size tree and hug it.

Next put rod between two planks and pull up.

Hey presto a plant support - only 95 to go.