How do I install an arch?

[kranser]

I have just bought a cheap steel-rod arch to grow plants on.

However, the instructions I got with it do not say how I should install it in the ground - and particularly, how I can protect it from falling over in the wind.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Kranser.

[Angi]

I just pushed mine into the ground. I have a very windy plot and my arch seems to have stayed put. Once plants are growing on it they will help to anchor it.

[kranser]

Thanks Angi.

How far did you need to push it in? About a meter (to the first horizontal bar)? Or not even that far?

Kranser.

[Chantal]

Hi Kranser

I have a couple of wrought iron arches which I pushed into the ground. I pushed them down until they felt reasonably stable and I would guess the depth would depend on the soil structure. Mine are only in a couple of inches, have clematis and roses growing over them and have never moved in years.

[Gerry]

Hi Kranser,

When I received a couple of cheap oblesks as a present I bought some gavanised tubing, into which the oblisk tubes would fit (as I considered that the cheap tubing would rust through very quickly when in the ground). I knocked these galvanised tubes into the ground until firm, inserted the thinner tube, drilled through both tubes and inserted a nail which I then bent over. I then painted the oblesks with Hammerite and they are now into their seventh year and looking good.

Hope you can understand this.
Regards, Gerry.

[Angi]

Hello again. I pushed mine in as far as the first horizontal bar; not a metre, more like 60cm.