Allotments 4 All
General => Top Tips => Topic started by: euronerd on August 06, 2009, 23:10:48
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Don't know if this idea might be useful to anybody. I'm using them for determinate toms and aubergines at the moment. I was concentrating on the zero cost option as much as anything. For experimental purposes I didn't use measurements of any kind, balancing the timber on a cane see-saw fashion, to find the centres.
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Just what I need. I put the canes in the pots this year and they all kept toppling over in the windy weather, even with stones on the pots.
Thanks for the idea.
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Great idea ;)
Neil
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I've been troubled with wind too compo. :-\ It's easy to further stabilise them with a few more canes:
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this is brilliant! as with the best ideas, thanks
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Welcome to A4A Wilder :)
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you know I must be a blonde!! I'd never thought of doing plant support like this - every year I have a battle with tall plants in pots (Toms, aubergines & cucs) and every year I say right that's it I'm not growing them in pots again.... So thanks Euronerd. And thanks to Wilder for spotting this thread :) Oh, and welcome to A4A ;D
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Thank you guys! I've had a quick poke around to see if there is somewhere for new members to briefly introduce themselves but couldn't find one.
(I'm also feeling a bit of a fraud as my thing isn't strictly speaking an allotment, can I still be a member? I've built some raised beds in my backgarden??)
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plenty of people on here who don't have allotments - besides the more the merrier :)
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I think the lack of an "Hello and Welcome" section could be addressed...
but no, you don't even need to be on the waiting list for an allotment... :)
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Hi Wilder, welcome to the nut house ;)
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Hello and welcome Wilder, I'm a garden plottie gardener too ;D
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Me too! I'm Hyacynth, THE bukkit lady.... black bukkit freebies from the Co-op which supplement my veggie plotties in my garden. 8)
Hello and welcome; Im pleased you've found us just at the beginning of a Season. You need seeds? Give us a holler in Seed Swap.
You're right tho - not a designated meeting&greeting place here....was voted against, but still really dunno why :-\
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Welcome ;D I too am a fraud with only raised beds in the back garden ;)
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Me - I'm only an ol' lady - so I find it easier to half bury the pots for my tomatoes etc. and use canes pretty much the same way as pictured by euronerd.
Tricia
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Excellent! Not feeling so much of a fraud now! Thanks for the warm welcome all, really glad I stumbled upon the site yesterday. I can see where some of my rainy days are going to be spent from now on!!!
;D ;D ;D
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Welcome Wilder. There is a section in the locations bit where you can find people who are in your area as well you might want to take a look at it, you'll have to look through to find your local area e.g. East; north west etc
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thanks Kea, have just updated my profile to put my location in.
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Hi Wilder and welcome, stick with me I'm probably the only sensible one on here. :P :P :P :P :P
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Clever........... ;)
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Great idea Euronerd- how did you fasten the pieces of hose on ? screws or small bolts?
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Looks to me like they are nailed on.
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screws and washer? That'd be easy to do 8)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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well done euronerd, and welcome Wilder!!
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.... 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
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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