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General => News => Topic started by: RSJK on April 01, 2007, 12:10:20
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how do any of you get on with untangling your bean nets, i use it to stretch over my cabbage plants etc wrapped them up last year and had to wrestle like hell with them yesterday to use them again, is there any easy way to avoid this.
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Awaiting replies, Richard ::).....nets, and Christmas lights...the two great mysteries of life. Tell you what I do...bin the things at the end of the season & buy some more....cheaper than a prescription for BP pills, so I'm quids-in :P
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You have a point, Lish. It is like my Philosophy of Sheds. It is all very well saving items that may be of use sometime, and keeping them in the shed. But only if they tick all three of these boxes:
1. you know what's there
2. you know exactly where it is
3. you can get at it
If not, there's no point keeping them at all!
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I HATE nets. Apart from the untangling it's the tripping over them - they really do seem out to get me. Is there any sort of net which is easier to use - I'm thinking maybe old fashioned cotton nets were more forgiving. ???
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I struggled with nets last year and decided to give up the unequal fight. For peas I had a vertical length of chicken wire with bamboo canes stuck into the ground. At the end of the season you can rip the foliage off, or burn it, then roll wire up..bingo. For covering rows of stuff just wigwammed (?) it over them. Bit expensive, but will last longer than any net I know of, and I didn't lose my temper as often!
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Greyhound - and if you need it?
In general, if you use nets, Simpsons Seeds' nylon nets are very forgiving.
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Bird killers-no thanks
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and if you need it?
No, Tim, because you never know what yet undreamed-of projects the future may hold.....
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I thought I'd try peas on some Wilko trellis I picked up a few weeks ago
wilko (http://www.wilkoplus.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=40119&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=16503)
- will it be too thick for the peas to fasten to?
Ps haven't grown peas before
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Owl, I also use trellis and it's fine 8) You'll need to put in twiggy bits for the peas to get established on before they start to climb up, is all.
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Stephan - just to clarify - Simpsons' stuff is 4"x4".
And silkily floppy.
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Thanks Alishka :)
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I struggled with nets last year and decided to give up the unequal fight. For peas I had a vertical length of chicken wire with bamboo canes stuck into the ground. At the end of the season you can rip the foliage off, or burn it, then roll wire up..bingo.
Katy! I did the same thing last week after a temper tantrum of the most alarming proportions ;D
I was so p***ed off with trying to unravel it I threw it at Ahmed's cat that was busy pooping in my carrot bed. I missed by the way, but it got the general idea.
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I struggled with nets last year and decided to give up the unequal fight. For peas I had a vertical length of chicken wire with bamboo canes stuck into the ground. At the end of the season you can rip the foliage off, or burn it, then roll wire up..bingo. For covering rows of stuff just wigwammed (?) it over them. Bit expensive, but will last longer than any net I know of, and I didn't lose my temper as often!
Praise be for this site. Already fed up with netting and was thinking about peas and what to do. And now i know. Saved me a year, thanks Katie. x 8)
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Come to think of it, I have a roll of it in the potting shed - great for the job - but don't grow peas any more.
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Stephan meant to say my netting is also 4" x 4"
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May be a little late posting here - Christmas lights easy. Roll up a whole newspaper, take end furthest away from plug and start wrapping around your newspaper, put rubber band over plug to stop unwinding. Next Christmas plug in to make sure they still work, turn off, then take your newspaper baton and wind it around the tree - simple.....
Netting, take quite a warm day when the netting is a little limp, get someone to help you, fold in half lengthways, and again, and again (depending on width - until it's about as deep as a bucket) then start to roll from one end and tie up. Come spring, when you need it, take a flask of warm/hot water up to the plot, place net in a bucket with water for a little while until it's a bit limp, untie and unwind - putty in your hand! Works for me, but feel I ought to put one of those disclaimer things below.... ;)
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Cor that's brilliant & so organised. :)
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I'm very impressed! Wish I'd tried that with my Christmas lights this year! ;D
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i love this site. inspirational !
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(p.s. but i'm still in a quandary about nets) ::)
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If you are still struggling with your nets you need to make new nets..... All you do is get a load of holes and tie them all together....aaahhh I hear you say.... but they have gone fishing haven't they - who - rod & anette ;D ;D ;D
Sorry. couldnt resist ;D ;D ;D
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At £25 a sheet for a 16' x 8' sheet I always use concrete reinforcing mesh. Cut to what ever size you want and stick in the ground. Tent shape for high climbers or straight in for peas etc. It even has ground spikes built in. Use it for fencing when not in use and fling it on the fire to burn off debris when the crop is finished. It should last about 15 years. A lot easier than messing about with scrappy bits of netting.
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Christmas lights - remove cats from house, trail across all the sofas and carefully wrap back into the ooriginal packaging for next year. It is an end of the festivities ritual...
Nets - currently in a blardy big mound under the buddleia, held down with a big stick. Blardy stuff is a pain in the bum at times and untangling means walking it across the carpark and trying to roll it back into manageable bundles. Am in the process of constructing wooden "boxes" with netting to be stapled all round (bar the bottom bit which sits on the ground). Easy access to plants, foiled fowls and they live on the beds all year round needing no extra storage. I'd put some photos up if I'd actually managed to make any of them!
This year I will be trying pea sticks for climbing. Next year - who knows.
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Well I'm just back from planting 200ish peas so I hope the nets work OK. ??? :P
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Someone famous said, "You can never have enough peas" - will 200 seeds be enough? ;D
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Don't have a problem here. I no longer have Christmas lights. (I am called a miserable so and so by my children) but as I no longer spend time here, children arrange my whole Christmas I don't see the need and I have yet to try growing peas, at least I can benefit from the posts about net.
Trixiebell, I have just cracked up at your post, oh dear was it supposed to be serious??
Lorna.