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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: jo9919 on April 22, 2009, 20:02:29
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Can anyone tell me the best place to buy netting from and what size I should get?
I've got strawberries, brassicas and peas which will need to be netted.
Thanks,
Jo.
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Hi,
Try ebay. Search for scaffold net. £31.65 delivered from a company called tarpaulinstogo. 50 metres long 2 metres wide.
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Thanks, I've found it.
Is the netting ok once it's been cut to size, it doesn't unravel or anything?
Is this ok to net everything with?
Jo.
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Yes it's fine, won't unravel, lets enough sunlight and rain in, and stops every pest getting in. I use it to cover everything on the plot. I had to after last years fight with the caterpillars. Just make sure it touches the ground on all sides.
(http://i433.photobucket.com/albums/qq56/STEVE69OOO/S1050466.jpg)
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In the top picture i've used two pieces stitched together with rope to make it 4 metres wide. Easy enough as it has small eyelet holes along the edges. Best to leave it off your strawberries while the insects are pollinating the flowers, cover them up once the fruit has appeared.
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if you have a lidl near you,this is good stuff, we got some last year :)
http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090423.p.Garden_Netting_.ar7
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The link is asking me to put in my postcode, when I do so there are two different types of netting, one is 8m x 2m for £6.99 and the other is 10m x 2m (two lots) for £4.99. Is it one of these?
The ebay netting looks really good.
Jo.
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Both prices you quoted are for the lidl netting (two different types).
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sorry, it's the first one,8x2, the other's a bit flimsy..we use this for strawberries, the debris netting from ebay, we use for cabbages etc as they need a big cage over them and the strawberries need the bees to be able to get in :)
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Great. Thanks for that.
Jo.
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I am exactly the same as manicscousers (net wise as I am from Warrington stock so not a Scouser at all!!! ;D) and I use debris netting to keep the insects out and the stiff netting with gaps of about 1cm2 to keep birds off me strawbs but allow the bees in.
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near enough, redclanger, our plot's classed as warrington, golborne ;D
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Ikea 3m x 3m net curtains £2 a pack :D
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Gobby you've raised a point there - where have all the net curtains on allotments gone? you used to see them all the time. Change of use, change of price or change of taste ? :-\
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ikea you say never thought of using net curtains you mean a voil type i presume if so thats a good price
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Have used net curtains for my brassica beds one of the net through a hoop as it's already sown then stretched over 2 further lengths of plumbers tubing (no idea what it's actually called / blue stuff)
that made 3m x 2m protection for each of my brassica's at around about £7 each. Holes are too small for strawberris though.
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The lidl netting is the same as wilkies only twice as long. Same price per m.
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Used my old net curtains to net my redcurrants one year and found them OK. The netting I have now is continually getting caught in my shoe laces or zip on my jacket and spend ages untangling it, I also tend to trip over the ends if I don't see it. Have asked the local charity shop to save nets for me that are too rubbish to sell as they only bin them, I know cause I used to work in one. Didn't realise that there is good netting and bad netting, I think the holes in mine are too big, I probably just bought the cheapest but will do more research before I buy anymore.
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Juist been to Lidl. The 8m x 2m is the stiff black scratchy net, the type you can buy by the metre in garden centres. The 2 pack is the fine stretchy grren stuff.
Noticed in Wilkos as well as thier usual nets, they also have a soft black 'knitted' net for £4.99.
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Been today and got 2 nets from lidl. They are just the right size to go across the plot. I know what you mean about catching your buttons in them though. I haven't got the patience or the eyesight to untangle myself so I just give a sharp tug and what do you know. It only breaks one square.
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What a useful thread this has been. I am growing Sprouts and Calabrese for the first time and was wondering whether I need to put netting over them. They will be going in the ground as young plants (6 inches tall), so if netting is required, when should I net them? :)
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asap, two choices, pigeons and we've seen 3 cabbage whites this week :o ;D
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Ikea net curtains - of course, it hadn't even occurred to me! We have some in our house that looked pretty grey when they were new & now def need replacing. What better excuse - thankyou ;D.
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Ikea 3m x 3m net curtains £2 a pack :D
I'm not having a dig at you Gobby..................but I thought you'd like to read a little German humour............yes, they have humour, and they are serious about it!
1. IKEA stands for "Idioten Kauft Eben Alles"........idiots buy almost anything.
2. The recent IKEA marketing slogan in Germany was "are you living beautifully, or are you just living?". In popular conversation this became "are you liviing beautifully, or are you still screwing screws?" ;D
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I too got debris netting from ebay 50m for about £30 including delivery, (or they sell it by the metre so you can just get what you need) I got black though :-)
Hubby has built me a lovely big cage on the allotment it's nearly 4 x 2m and tall enough for me to walk in. At home he has adapted some rose arches and made another smaller cage for me, both designed to keep the sodding butterflys off my brassicas.
I prefer the black to the green as it isn't so obvious and sore thumb ish. I haven't got buttons caught in it but I have snagged my hair clip a few times .......
Helen x
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Cant agree more with Ikea, we went round to have a look at the new store in southampton............ it took us 3 hours to wander through and ended up coming out with a wok and 2 new lamp shades.
But we went back specificaly for the nets as they were a perfect size and cheapy cheap! :D
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Thanks everyone for your replies. I'm going to go to Lidl at the weekend to try to get some of their netting for the strawberries and I'm going to get some off ebay for the brassicas and peas.
I just can't face going to Ikea for their net curtains. Once you're in there you can't get out until you've mastered the 'maze'.
Jo.
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Just picked up the pack two 10x2m nets from Lidl for 35. The mesh is 1.5cm, which I think should be ok to cover sprouts and calabrese. I know it sounds daft, but do you just cover the tops and drape a little over the sides, or do you need to completelty enclose them right down to ground level?
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too ground level as the moths will lay eggs and the catapillers will destroy the whole plant like a deluge
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Thanks for all the advice. Job for the weekend is to get the plants in and construct a frame to support the netting.
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If you get the flimsy thin stretchy netting - make sure you keep it really tight or it is a deathtrap for birds like blackbirds and robins.
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Well said, i removed a song thrush from some not long ago from some flipant, irrisponsilble netting >:(
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i got some netting from ebay 10m x 4m and it cost me £13 including postage
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280336490841&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123