We put a basketball hoop in the back alley-way and the ball would smash the plants in the planters box. Kinda like plants vs. zombies, but the other way, basketballs vs. plants and the basketballs dominated.
So, I beefed up the planters boxes and added a deflector rod for the ball. Needless to say, the deflector rod vibrates like mad, but that vibration does a great job of suppressing the force from the basketball and it doesn’t bounce to high or hard off the deflector. I do worry someone will step on it and break it. I might add a support in the middle, but for now it works well. See pics:
I did have an issue with the ‘deflectors’ cracking. Why? Because I didn’t pre-drill a pilot hole for the wood screw. Lesson learned: Always, always, always, pre-drill a pilot hole for wood…
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