good advice taken

[shirlton]

Here are a couple of your ideas Ive tried and found very good

[shirlton]

[Mrs Ava]

what are the yellow balls shirlton??

[shirlton]

play balls from asda. you just cut a wee hole in them and put them on the end of your canes. Stops ya pokin yer eye out

[pete10]

Nice work can i ask what pegs you using to hold your mesh down over the cabbages.

[supersprout]

If you're looking for the Perfect Peg pete, try searching on 'pegs' here - lots of different ideas over the last year or so :D

[tim]

And you could put mesh over the balls.

[shirlton]

Hi there Pete, I just roll the edge of the mesh round a cane then hold the cane down with tent pegs, I got them from wilkinsons I think they were 20 for a pound. If I use fleece I do the same but then I fasten the fleece to the cane with a wooden clothes peg. The hosepipe idea was great though. It's one of the best ideas Iv'e seen

[baggieboy]

where do you get that fleece stuff from shirlton?

[pete10]

Thanks for the info.I just wanted to tidy mine up .Have gone a different root to you with the blue pipe.

As for the fleece Baggie try here.  http://www.garden-supply.co.uk/index.php?cPath=7_31

[shirlton]

If you have a poundland near you then you can get the fleece there. I didn't expect it to last very long being cheap but it's ok. The full length you aee here is a pouns worth and the wire also cost me a poun. Not bad eh!

[supersprout]

that's a really cool set of cloches shirl, hope you gave yourselves a big pat on the back! :o :D

[baggieboy]

got several pound lands by me shirton , and thanks for the link pete.

100% gonna make some of these and to think i was gonna order something very simular for £12 each

1 last thing and i now this is stupid . But do you just water through the fleece?

thanks again for posting

[shirlton]

I hope my spellings a little better this morning. I've just re-read my posts and thought "omg". Yes you water through the fleece. I found that if I watered it with a fine spray when first put up it helped the fleece to let the water through.  After a  couple of showers it seems to become porous. Just don't let it fly into any brambles though as I did cos it rips it to pieces. If you want something a bit more substantial say to cover a bed of cabbage or carrots I found the enviromesh very good. Its the cloche on my pic using the hosepipe idea. They cost me about £26 for two from Suttons seeds. I ahven't been to poundland for a few weeks now so let me know if you find anything useful there when you go eh!

[pete10]

The mesh is a god send protects my cabbages very well even the old foxes are put off by the tunnels.
The best money spent so far.