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How do I bury trellis supports without poisoning my soil?

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How do I bury trellis supports without poisoning my soil?

I’m currently planning on making a trellis for a hardy kiwi but the only location I have for it prevents me from using anchor cables to help support the verticals. My current plan is to bury 2 3m 100x100mm red cedar beams (treated with some eco friendly wood preserver) 1m deep with some steel U beams screwed either side going 50cm or so deeper. The verticals would be joined by horizontals supported by steel brackets but my main concern is how well what is in the ground would hold up long term to fairly clayey soil. I’m in England so it can be damp for quite a bit of the year.

Any help would be appreciated

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Sebastian Moreno: Backyard birding elevates underrepresented voices in protecting urban biodiversity

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Sebastian Moreno: Backyard birding elevates underrepresented voices in protecting urban biodiversity

In this ‘Postcards from the Field’ blog post, Sebastian Moreno – a researcher and PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst – discusses the remarkable intersection of human behavior with ecological conservation, and the importance of bringing underrepresented communities to conversation. Profile: My research area combines my passion for birds and the intersection of human behavior with ecological conservation. Studying how urban environments influence …

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“We are in a very good place in the Netherlands and that is why we are here”

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"We are in a very good place in the Netherlands and that is why we are here"

At tomato grower The Valley , they are testing a harvesting robot. Joost van der Voort talks about it in Elsevier, as the magazine fires eleven questions at the grower. Among other things, Joost explains how different the job of a tomato grower is nowadays, compared to Grandpa’s time. “We say we work…

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