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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

Use black locust if you can get them, they are definitely the longest
lasting post without preservative.

Not sure how long your run is or how heavy duty you want this to be, but you
may not need any wooden posts in the middle. If your ends are good, you
should be able to go about 60-80 feet using just metal posts I would think.

I would use metal over plastic. Those heavy T-posts last forever. Takes a
long time to rust.

-matt

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 11:18 PM, mike engle <speigletown@hotmail.com>wrote:

>
> This is concerning land that i will be planting grapes on this spring.
> Troy, NY Zone 5
> - - - - -
> mycorrhizal fungi -  Wondering abut people's personal opinions on treating
> my soil with mycorrhizal fungi before I plant.
> Also,
>
>
>                Trichoderma
>                atroviride.  at this website http://www.ampacbiotech.net/
> Is it worthwhile, or more of just a frill?
>
>
> Trellis posts - I keep going back and forth.  I am going to need 2 end
> posts, and 5 posts in between, if I go with 3 plants between posts.
>
> I was thinking black locust posts on the ends as there is a place about a
> hour away which sells black locust.  Then for the interior posts,
> alternating between wood and steel, but then I wondered about a recycled
> plastic post to take the place of the metal posts.(benefit of longevity)
>
> so it might look like this
> [locust] [metal] [locust] [metal] [locust] [metal] [locust]
>
> Opinions?  And if this is a decent idea, does anyone know a source for
> recycled plastic posts?
>
>
> Another wooden post I've found online is the Princeton Wood Preserver
>
>            pine posts.
>
> Michael Engle
> Troy, NY Zone 5
>
>
>
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