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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: MutantHobbit on January 27, 2006, 14:33:18
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I went into my local Poundland store yesterday and bought some Poly Cloches for a quid each. :o Can't go wrong really at that price! ::) Manager says they should be available at most stores from this weekend. ;D ;D
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Hi, what sort of cloches are they?
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I must get there. Meant to when someone posted about the canes.
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I got some a few weeks ago, doubt they'll last more than this season, but at £1.00 a pop you can't go wrong. They look pretty decent from picture, although haven't unwrapped them yet.
Poundshop is rapidly becoming one of my favourite places !
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I got some last year and were a great start for my plants . ;)
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They are excellent for the price, and Poundland has lots of bargains for the garden.
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:-\ Unless you can anchor them down well, they will blow away in a puff of wind :(
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I bought a three last year and they've been fine - will use them again this year. Also picked up a kneeling pad and garden canes, Certainly can't complain at the price. I've bought more expensive cloches in the past and these are definately comparable. ;D
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...so, thats wilko for shallots, poundland for cloches and netto for cheap seeds
Brilliant! I know where I shall be this weekend!!
Debs ;)
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yes i got some last week. they arent so bad . not to heavy duty but should be ok in sheltered places i have mine over my strawberry planters. i know las year poundland were selling bags of growmore,bone meal and blood meal for a quid each.
pete
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I got some last year did a good job and the plants came on well. After the frost i cleaned them up and put them away out of the sun .I will be putting them out again soon . (Don't forget to block off the end's, or they will blow away and it helps to keep the heat in). ;)
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Hi all, :D
Mine are now three years old with no problems. I hope to be using them in a few weeks.
Col
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went to both poundland stores in southampton.
I didnt get one :'( :'(
kind mangeress did say she will enquire to head office to see if they can get some :) :)
thats service.
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Got some quite good ones last year for £4.99 at Wilkinsons, but will take a look in Poundland tomorrow. £1 for cloches sounds a real bargain! busy_lizzie
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went to both poundland stores in southampton.
I didnt get one :'( :'(
kind mangeress did say she will enquire to head office to see if they can get some :) :)
thats service.
Good idea, thanks :) - I'll do that tomorrow if they still don't have them in Birmingham (oh! and I can tell them that they've already done it for a customer in Southampton!... ;D ;D ;D
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I think that these are the ones from Poundland, but I can't check that they are exactly the same as mine are on the allotment. What do you think? The bid is £7.50 + £2+ postage
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CLOCHE-POLY-TUNNEL-GARDEN-SEEDLINGS-PLANTS-GREENHOUSE_W0QQitemZ7743565238QQcategoryZ42153QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Yep, they're the same as the ones I bought for a quid ::) Dunno whether to stick them on eBay myself! ;D
Dave
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Some people have more money than sense, at perhaps £10+ total cost via ebay, the recipients will be paying £7 per metre, since the cloches are only 1.5 metres long?
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:o They reached £16 last year on ebay :o Talk about rip off Britain! no wonder when there are suckers like that about ::) :P ;D
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what do you reckon on this. hard to say how strong it is but could it do for my ground warming/rain protection ? VFM ??
http://www.toolstation.com/?r=k&feature=46541 (http://www.toolstation.com/?r=k&feature=46541)
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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.
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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.
;D
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quick update ......... the sandwich bags weren't far off the mark :o
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 :P) 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.
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update on the update. just had to rub my eyes there .......... not rain!! snow !!!
:o
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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 ;D
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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 !
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All I can get Irn Bru in here is plastic bottles (great for cloches) crap for taste , tastes better in glass bottles. honestly!!! ???
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totally agree 100%. ice-cold out of glass is always preferable, but i can't cut the bottoms of glass bottles. ;D
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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.
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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 ?? ::)
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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. ;D 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.
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if i was tight, i'd be rich ;D
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.
;D