100 ct Contractor Grade 4 Inch Biodegradable Stakes Sod staples For Securing Weed Fabric Landscape Fabric Netting and

Worked great! Read more

Bought these to go along with a biodegradable erosion control blanket that we used on a hillside that was freshly seeded with grass seed. The stakes are also biodegradable and while it has only been a week the stakes were easy to use. They were recommended during the purchase of the erosion blanket and I'm happy with the ease of use, looks, and quality of the blanket that I'm sure the stakes will follow suit. Read more

Worked great for securing mesh. Easy to use and seem to hold tight to the ground. Great value for money. Read more

I use these to pin down my garden weed barrier...I don't put any mulch or anything on top of it, but rather sow seeds into holes for cut flowers. I like these plastic pins better than the wire pins because they're less likely to get lost in the grass and soil. They do have a breaking point, however. I used a metal mallet and broke a few, so I started pushing them in with my hands and then stepping on them to drive them in. Also, shortly after thoroughly pinning three 15 foot or so sections of garden barrier, we had a massive storm. Tons of rain softened the soil, and even though I had pins about every foot, the paper still came up in the wind. I had to run out in the middle of dangerous winds to keep ot from taking off into the air. Haven't had that problem since, but it was frustrating having to untangle and re-pin. Maybe just a freak incident, we had entire trees uprooted, so it may be unfair to hold that against the spikes. Read more

I saw many reviews about the gas breaking when hammering them in. I have used all but 10 of mine in our dog lot, and not one broke. As far as them being biodegradable, if they are, great-if they’re not, it will not bother me. I am getting ready to order a second bag to use in and around my flower beds to help sturdy things. I will be using fishing line with them. Read more

I live in a blackland area of Texas where the dirt gets hard as a nail during the summer. These spikes worked without a hitch. Rubber mallet, two whacks and move on. Read more

Excellent for securing landscaping paper Read more

I bought these stakes 18 months ago, to place a temporary hay mat cover over our all-dirt backyard until we could finally finish installing plants the following Spring. The stakes are extremely flimsy and routinely broke while trying to use them. Of the 200 stakes we had, we easily snapped 40-50 of them in half just trying to gently shove them into the ground with shoes or a rubber mallet. "But", I thought, "they're compostable so I supposed that's kind of understandable," at least that's what I told myself at the time. We left the stakes in the ground for about 10 months until pulling them out the following Spring and installing our backyard. The stakes that survived the installation hadn't aged or broken down at all while sitting in the soil. Seemed as new as the day they were bought. Which seemed extremely odd. After installing our backyard, I put some of the green stakes into our large composting bin to let them break down further along with yard and food scraps. 6-8 months later baking all summer in a warm humid compost bin where everything else has broken down into dark soil, 100% of the green plastic I'd put in the bin is still there, and hasn't biodegraded one bit. The larger pieces mechanically broke down into some slightly-smaller pieces (in half, etc) due to the turning of the bin (see above re: how flimsy the plastic is), but you can still see all the raised writing on the plastic, the edges of the plastic are still entirely intact, and if you rinse it off, the plastic is in exactly the same condition it was on the day I bought it. It hasn't broken down at all, not one iota. You will notice in the picture up top, they show green plastic that they ran through a shredder (probably something like a cheese grater) to create "green plastic dust" that makes the stakes *look* partially composted, but that is not a picture of anything having been composted. That's just green plastic surrounded by green dust to look like a poor imitation of compost (that isn't how compost looks). This isn't compostable plastic, it is cheap and flimsy non-biodegradable plastic being sold fictiously to consumers as "compostable" when it is nothing of the sort. I know they're cheap, but do not waste your money on these. The only two things they advertise being (stakes for ground-use, and compostable), they do not meet the task on either of them. I would either spend more $$ on actual compostable stakes from a reputable manufacturer, or just go with the metal yard staples that will actually do their job. These are a sham. Read more