How best to hang these planters on fence panel

Hi,
I bought some planter baskets last Autumn but haven’t managed to put them to use yet.
I have attached a few pics
There is a two hooks on the basket which does sit on the top of the fence panel, but I feel if the wind picked up or the hook just slipped the basket would come crashing to the ground.
There is another hanging part at the back of the basket but it doesn’t fit properly onto the fence d panel either.

Any suggestions on safest approach to hang them on the fence panel or am I overthinking it and the hooks won’t slide down off the panel?

Thanks

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Will the hooks fit between the uprights so that they rest on the horizontal part? That might be more stable, if the spacing is right for them to fit in.

 

Hi Jenny,
Unfortunately not as the horizontal piece has no gap at back and is actually nailed to the back fence panel.
Hopefully this pic explains it better

 

My feeling is that the baskets, once filled with compost and plants, will be too heavy to hang on that fence, particularly when watered - sorry.

Hopefully another poster might come up with a solution.

 

Is it your fence?
My neighbour often hangs things in mine and tend to rip the boards off as they get heavier.

It should be ok, concrete posts and looks fairly solid, the last picture looks ok, maybe put a couple of screws in the vertical slats where it meets the horizontal, so that it doesn't rip it off, as its probably only nailed on.

 

Yes, on these side of the garden it’s our fence, the other side of the garden it’s a shared fence.

The weight with compost and water I hadn’t considered as my primary concern was the hook slipping, which is the still the initial concern.

When you mean to put in the screws is that purely to strengthen it?

I don’t think there is a way around the risk of the hook sliding down off the top of the fence. I have included a video which shows what I mean about it slipping off.

 

OK, yes the idea of the screws was just to stop the weight pulling the fencing upright off the horizontal.
You could either cut a V in the top of the upright to take the hook, or again use two screws either side of the hooks into the top of the uprights where the hooks are going.

 

Thanks, good suggestions!

The screws either side of the hooks will presumably catch the hook if it slides down and prevent it sliding off.
I may try that approach first rather than cutting a V into the fence panel upright.

 

You could drill holes through the fence panels and push the hooks through.

 

Yes obviously you don't wind the screws right in, leaving an inch sticking out.
Maybe drill pilot holes so that you don't split the timber.

 

This is quite a simple fix. Two battens - vertical, attached to the fence. Make sure the width they're placed apart will cover the distance of the hanging hooks. Then attach another batten, or a fairly narrow piece of wood to those battens, horizontally. You can also attach one lower down to support the bottom of the troughs. Then hook them over that horizontal. Just measure carefully so that it all fits correctly, and the hooks themselves will be accommodated properly.
I don't know what the other piece of wire is, but I'm guessing that's to go at the back near/at the base to push the basket/trough out and make it more vertical?
If you put them a bit lower down the fence, that also makes them more secure, and less likely to pull any timbers out, although there would have to be something very wrong with the fence verticals if that happened! The troughs don't look that big.

I've done this kind of thing many times, and currently have 2 much larger troughs on a trellis attached to my new pergola in a similar way. I just push a piece of spare batten in behind the troughs to push them out and make them more vertical.

 

You could have them sitting on L brackets to take some of the load. They come in different colours and sizes.

 

Thank you, I’m struggling to fully visualise what you mean. Do you have a picture of something similar?

As the planter currently sits/hangs, I’m happy with that positioning, it’s just ensuring the hook doesn’t slide down the fence panel.

 

I'm just looking at your pic. There's no way that'll stay in place when the tops of the planks are rounded. I didn't realise that's how you intended hanging them!
The easiest solution, in that case, is to put a horizontal batten on the fence, around a few inches from the top. Personally, I'd put it level with the supporting one behind your side of the fence, and then put the hooks in the gaps between those vertical planks. It looks like they'd be in the right place for that. The higher you put the troughs, the more weight you put on the planks, so a little lower would be better. It also depends on what you intend growing in them. The higher they are, the less you'll see the planting, so it would really need to be trailing plants. If they're a bit lower, you have more scope.
If the gaps aren't suitable spaced, my original solution is the one to go for, and this is a rough idea of what I meant:
This is my pergola, which has 2 quite hefty baskets/troughs with nasturtiums in them. Imagine the 2 posts at the back are the vertical battens I mentioned. The trellis in the pic is attached to those, and that equates to the 2 horizontal battens in my earlier post.
Your troughs have hooks, so they'd just fit over the top, whereas mine have a section at the back with holes, so I have screws in the trellis that they hang on.
There's a fence behind this, but it's a dreadful one- squint and unstable, so I decided to rip out all my raised beds etc in spring, and do something different.


I also have a batten just shoved under the base to keep them more upright, but that isn't vital, and again depends on what's being grown. You could forget that and it would allow the troughs to tilt a bit more, enabling you to see the plants more easily.

This is it just taken a few days ago

 

Thank you @fairygirl, I think I understand now.

If I purchased a single piece of wood similar to the below:


I presume I could cut that into two smaller pieces, one piece each to hang the hooks off as they are placed horizontally on the front of the face or would you suggest putting a full batten all the way across the fence panel?
Then presumably I will just need to buy a few screws long enough to go through the batten and the fence.