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

Used these with the roll out straw erosion mats. I had the area wet first but these drive in very nice with a small hammer and held the mat down perfectly. I like that they dissolve over time and not leave wires or spikes behind. Getting ready to order my second pack.

In clay soil these went in surprisingly well. Used to tack down wire, I used a rubber mallet to drive them in. A few broke, but a small percentage of the total. Don't know about biodegradable though, but don't really care. The metal alterative are certainly not.

I used these stakes to anchor down cardboard under mulch as a weedblock at the edge of a flower bed. Pounded in with a hammer, had a drill just in case they didn't go through the cardboard, but they worked perfectly and hold strong due to the barbs on the sides. I do question if they are actually going to break down as advertized, we will see.

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.

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.

I used these for securing landscape fabric to prevent erosion. Great design keeps them from wiggling use. They go in easily and do exactly what they claim. Would buy again.

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.

As long as they actually are biodegradable these will be awesome, I guess will find out in six months!