Plastic Edging Spikes | Spiral Nylon Landscape Stake | Plastic Anchoring Stakes

Divide your straight metres by 1.2, multiply your curved metres by 3.3, then add about ten per cent for stony ground. Curves need roughly three times as many spikes as straight runs.

Usually yes. The kit supplies three per metre, which suits a straight run in decent soil. A curved bed needs a spike every 300 mm, and stony ground bends or swallows a few.

Heavy duty plastic composite. They do not rust, corrode or peel, and they will not stain pale edging orange the way a steel peg eventually does.

The thread has to be rotated out of the soil rather than simply pulled. A smooth peg relies on friction alone and lifts under winter frost heave.

10, 50 and 100. The larger packs exist because a curved job or a long run gets through them quickly.

Start the spike by hand through the tab so it is upright, then drive it with a rubber mallet. No pilot hole is needed.

Not on these. A steel face splits the moulded head. A rubber mallet spreads the blow and drives them without damage.

Pull it out, move along a few centimetres and start again. Hitting it harder bends it, and a bent spike will not go straight.

The spiral thread grips better in loose soil than a smooth peg does. In very sandy ground, space them more closely and firm the soil against the edging properly.

The spiral is specifically there to resist heave. Walk the run each spring anyway and tap back anything that has lifted.

Yes, if you pull them straight rather than levering them sideways. Plastic composite does not corrode into the ground the way steel pegs do.

No. The same spike anchors weed fabric under gravel, holds artificial turf at the edges, secures tree ties and pins down lawn ornaments, inflatables and tents.

They are sized to anchor edging strip properly rather than just to hold it in place, with the spiral running most of the length.

Black, so the head disappears against black plastic edging and against dark soil.

For edging, in most gardens, yes: no rust, no staining, and they still lift years later. Steel is stronger in very hard or stony ground where plastic can bend.

They can if the ground is dry and stony. Water the line the evening before an edging job and the difference is considerable.

The steel ranges come with their own 100 mm steel spikes, which suit the heavier strip. These are for the plastic kit and general anchoring work.

Yes, and it is one of the most common uses. The spiral holds fabric down where a smooth pin works its way loose.

Once driven, almost all of the spike is underground and out of the light, which is where plastic ages fastest.

No, they are supplied as spikes. On edging they pass through the moulded tabs on the strip, which do the spreading job a washer would.

With supervision and a rubber mallet it is one of the easier parts of the job. It is still a striking tool.

All the way, until the head sits down against the tab. A partly driven spike is a trip hazard and it holds badly.

Yes. Clay is easiest to work a day or two after rain: bone dry clay is hard going for any peg and waterlogged clay smears.

Usually, with a twist. That is the trade off the spiral makes: harder for frost to lift, and slightly harder for you to remove.

No, they are sold in packs of 10, 50 or 100.

Do the sum first. A 20 m straight run needs about 17, so the 10 pack tops up the kit. A curved bed of the same length can need 60 or more.

Yes. They are a stock item, not cut to order, so they carry the full right to change your mind, extended to 15 days from delivery, in resaleable condition.

Send your order number and a photograph and we will replace them. We cover the return postage on damaged goods.

Free across Europe on orders of €60 or more, and a flat €22 below that. Most people add spikes to an edging order where delivery is already free.

They are a plastic composite, so they are not accepted in most household kerbside collections. The practical answer is to lift and reuse them rather than replacing them.