Tree Ties

First week back after the Christmas holidays. Our orchard trees, newly planted last term have been suffering in the wind. We decided to make some new ties to attach them to their stakes. The string we used before could damage the trees so we got some old bike inner tubes and cut them up. We each made a design for our ties, the ones that seemed to work best were the ones that we plaited. They were strong because they were plaited but they were still stretchy.