Ashman Galvanized Garden Stakes Landscape Staples: 500 Pack 6 Inch Sod and Fence Stake - Sturdy Rust Resistant Gardening Supplies for Anchoring Landscaping, Weed Barrier Fabric, Ground Cover

Love this for my garden so far so good

These far exceeded expectations. I’ve been buying garden stakes from the big box stores for years and honestly thought these would be the same thing, just cheaper since I was buying them in bulk. These are both longer and thicker (example in the attached picture from stakes we used last year on the left and these ones on the right). They also have perfectly angled tips that are very sharp and easily pierced our heavy duty landscaping fabric. They now have us as customers for life.

I am fastening down hard wire cloth and landscape fabric. I need the staples to hammer down into the dirt. These look and feel like aluminum despite saying they are steel. I seriously doubt it. They bend like aluminum. Their weight is very light. They bend and fold over with little effort. They are close to useless. If your soil is soft and there are no rocks or sticks then you could get away with this. But why, the staples are crap? this useless box of crap shows up and you discover it is a sham. How stinking lame is that? they bend and don't work. You have been stooged and have to use them or stop and wait to get suitable replacements. What a bunch of jerks made these...

They are very flimsy and not sturdy enough to pound into the ground/dirt. Seventy-percent of them bent over and were unusable. I was hoping to use them to help secure my artificial turf to the ground/dirt underneath. Ended up having to mostly use five inch nails as the stakes would bend before I could get them go into the ground. I recommend you use nails if you're planning on hammering into the ground.

We used these staples to put down weed paper over tilled ground. The ground was very soft as it had been tilled with a tractor several times and the dirt was like talcum powder for about 4-5 inches. Only the last inch of dirt did the staple have to grab anything and about half the time the staples would bend. Also about 10% of them weren't the right size or had been cut off on one side or the other. One side would be the 6" and the other side would be anywhere from 2" to 4" long. I won't be ordering these staples again.