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Home made cloches for raised beds.
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| Trevor 2008-02-28, 9:25 am |
| Looking to make improvised cloches using fleece or mesh for carrots and
brassicas. I have found steel rods for 83p per m for 12mm and found 15mm
plastic pipe at builders merchant (may be a bit slack). Has anyone done it
this way, perhaps with alkathene? I was thinking of 36 inch rods 18 inches
in the ground. Beds are 5 ft across.
Would be interested to here of any success - dimensions, costs etc
Trevor
East Yorkshire
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| JennyC 2008-02-29, 3:25 am |
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"Trevor" <trevor@nospam.woldsweather.plus.net> wrote in message
news:5576e$47c6d18f$50e5af86$12369@news.eurofeeds.com...
> Looking to make improvised cloches using fleece or mesh for carrots and
> brassicas. I have found steel rods for 83p per m for 12mm and found 15mm
> plastic pipe at builders merchant (may be a bit slack). Has anyone done it
> this way, perhaps with alkathene? I was thinking of 36 inch rods 18
> inches in the ground. Beds are 5 ft across.
>
> Would be interested to here of any success - dimensions, costs etc
>
> Trevor
> East Yorkshire
I can't offer you personal experience Trevor, but you see them often in
magazines, on TV etc...:
Google has loads of info:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...tic+pipe+-clock
Jenny
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| George.com 2008-02-29, 9:25 am |
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"Trevor" <trevor@nospam.woldsweather.plus.net> wrote in message
news:5576e$47c6d18f$50e5af86$12369@news.eurofeeds.com...
> Looking to make improvised cloches using fleece or mesh for carrots and
> brassicas. I have found steel rods for 83p per m for 12mm and found 15mm
> plastic pipe at builders merchant (may be a bit slack). Has anyone done it
> this way, perhaps with alkathene? I was thinking of 36 inch rods 18
> inches in the ground. Beds are 5 ft across.
>
> Would be interested to here of any success - dimensions, costs etc
>
> Trevor
> East Yorkshire
I made one of these.
http://www.eartheasy.com/cloche.htm
I cut some corners & simply nailed together 4 pieces of old 2x4, drilled
holes both sides of the frame for old water plastic water pipe & warpped
some old plastic packing sheet across the top. Cost me about $8 I reckon. I
found these types of tool clips are very good for securing the plastic sheet
to the water pipe.
http://www.springmasters.com/sp/spring-clips-open.html
http://www.springmasters.com/sp/spring-clips-super.html
http://www.springmasters.com/sp/spr...ips-closed.html
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| Donna \(UK\) 2008-02-29, 9:25 am |
| I have just brought a pack of build-a-balls and some bamboo canes. So far
cost me £15 for 12 build-a-balls and £2.80 for the canes. Already got some
material to cover it that I brought last year...
"Trevor" <trevor@nospam.woldsweather.plus.net> wrote in message
news:5576e$47c6d18f$50e5af86$12369@news.eurofeeds.com...
> Looking to make improvised cloches using fleece or mesh for carrots and
> brassicas. I have found steel rods for 83p per m for 12mm and found 15mm
> plastic pipe at builders merchant (may be a bit slack). Has anyone done it
> this way, perhaps with alkathene? I was thinking of 36 inch rods 18
> inches in the ground. Beds are 5 ft across.
>
> Would be interested to here of any success - dimensions, costs etc
>
> Trevor
> East Yorkshire
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