Topic: Zero cost plant support

[keepondiggin]

Great idea Euronerd- how did you fasten the pieces of hose on ? screws or small bolts?

[greensausage]

Looks to me like they are nailed on.

[Hyacinth]

screws and washer? That'd be easy to do 8)

[Vinlander]

Great design and now it's got me thinking...

If you're putting a pot on top then it would work just as well with the hose bits screwed into a square or triangle cut from cheap builders' ply (which can stand the wet).

I will even be sticking some thick twigs into hose bits and using them as cane extenders on wigwams - I'm fed up of losing a foot off every cane every year - a sacrificial ground-end is just what I need!

Cheers.

[euronerd]

Sorry for the delay. I used short screws and large washers (Keep this to yourselves but I drilled holes in 1p coins). It stops the hose from tearing out when a particularly healthy plant puts a lot of stress on it.

Geoff.

[PurpleHeather]

If you need to put some plastic around I have been using clothes pegs to fasten it on to the canes to keep the plastic (or fleece) in place. Just did it with a load of runner beans and some second hand bubble wrap.

It is working for me.

[THE MASTER]

you should apply for a paten pending. bling it up abit and a kit has gotta be worth at least a £10  a pop at a garden centre

[euronerd]

I used to think about that after I'd concocted something I thought was brilliant, but people I've talked to say you need copious amounts of time and an endless supply of money when you start thinking about patents. There must be dozens of things we've all knocked together as a quick and cheap solution for a particular problem, using things we have to hand. The activity even has a name - bricolage.  ;D

[tonybloke]

well done euronerd, and welcome Wilder!!

[jennym]

.... There must be dozens of things we've all knocked together as a quick and cheap solution for a particular problem, using things we have to hand. The activity even has a name - bricolage.  ;D

Erm, isn't bricolage the French word for DIY? Sure I've seen it on shop signs in France  ;D

[euronerd]

You're right jennym - but I'm right too  8) It has a few definitions, one of which goes: "a construction made of whatever materials are at hand; something created from a variety of available things." Bricoler translates as "to putter" or potter. Anyway I like the idea that me playing around with bits of scrap iron and timber on the allotment actually has a name. Gives it some sort of legitimacy don't you think?  ;D