Poly Cloches @ Poundland

[euronerd]

MrsKP, that looks OK depending on their definition of 'strong' but it's bound to be at least as strong as Poundland's cloches (Incidentally, some of mine are entering their 3rd season.) I've been paying about £2/metre for 4 metre wide black polythene sheet from the builders' merchants if that's any help.

Geoff.

[MrsKP]

Now to see if i qualify as a tradesman to order some!!!

i don't have a poundland on my doorstep so surfing is my best bet.

thanks for the advice.

p.s. just ordered and at my reckoning 12p/m2  (i got two rolls) was pretty good.  if i can't use it in the garden i'll be wrapping sandwiches with it for a very long time.

 

[MrsKP]

quick update ......... the sandwich bags weren't far off the mark 

i wouldn't buy it again, but it will do now that i've got it.  have got a 2m wide double thickness laid across the plot (it's not a garden any more  ) to keep off the rain (which has just started again) to help me dig more easily at the weekend.

just hope the wind keeps away.

[MrsKP]

update on the update.  just had to rub my eyes there .......... not rain!!  snow !!!

 

[carrot-cruncher]

I've been using empty two-litre pop bottles as cloches, some of the bottles are entering their third season too.   £1 per cloche sounds excellant value for money but my bank balance prefers my way.

My colleages at work say I'm tight, I just say I'm economic 

[MrsKP]

it's good job we drink loads of "ginger" as half are going towards cloches and half for slug protection rings (with the pinking shears) and i now discover i've got to plant the   slug protectors 4" down so rather than cutting the bottles in half and just having them surface mounted, i'm leaving them whole with half in half out .

Anyone for a glass of Irn Bru ? Cheers !

[scotch-mist]

All I can get Irn Bru in here is plastic bottles (great for cloches) crap for taste , tastes better in glass bottles. honestly!!!

[MrsKP]

totally agree 100%.   ice-cold out of glass is always preferable,  but i can't cut the bottoms of glass bottles.   

[euronerd]

MrsKP, I don't wish to corrupt the thread, but you can: put about an inch of oil in the bottle, then plunge a red hot poker in (or modern equivalent). The bottle will break cleanly at the oil level. Not a ha'porth of use in reality, but it does work. (Pause). Having thought about it, I wonder if it would work with old demijohns, scrounged from people who used to make wine. O well, just a thought.

Geoff.

[MrsKP]

but then i'd not get me 20p deposit back and i'm not sure i'd let me loose with a red hot anything .... vegetable oil or engine oil ??   

[euronerd]

Lol, you want it all ways MrsKP, your deposit and a cloche. I'm delighted that there's somebody out there as tightfisted as me.  Oil - I used old engine oil (free) but I can't see why any kind of oil couldn't be used. It's only a medium to transfer the heat.

Geoff.

[MrsKP]

if i was tight, i'd be rich 


i think the OH would have a fit if he saw me draining the oil out of the car waving a red-hot poker in one hand and an irn bru bottle in the other, but it's an interesting concept to file away under "might be useful for something later" in the memory banks.

i've just discovered interesting things to do with a bit of hose and a few bamboo canes over on the WIKI pages, i might start off with less hazardous materials first.

thanks for stimulating the grey cells though.  this could be an interesting summer.