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General => Top Tips => Topic started by: MikeB on February 26, 2006, 12:37:04

Title: Corrugated sheets
Post by: MikeB on February 26, 2006, 12:37:04
Used as a cloche
Title: Re: Corrugated sheets
Post by: Larkspur on February 26, 2006, 13:13:46
Nice one Mike B :). Someone on my allotment has about half of their plot covered with a version of these at the moment. I was immediately inspired to follow suit ;).
Title: Re: Corrugated sheets
Post by: MikeB on February 26, 2006, 15:11:50
Just remember when you are done with them for the year to stow them away out of the sunlight, this extends their life, sunlight makes them brittle.
Title: Re: Corrugated sheets
Post by: amanda21 on February 26, 2006, 15:37:22
Brilliant - do they come the right size like that or have you cut then down?

Also notice the cage behind - is that a dolls house frame I spy with the white plastic junctions??   ;D
Title: Re: Corrugated sheets
Post by: MikeB on February 26, 2006, 16:05:19
The sheets I brought were 8' long, the bed in the picture is 10'.  The frame is from one of those cheap gazebos, modified
Title: Re: Corrugated sheets
Post by: mc55 on February 26, 2006, 17:24:22
would you need to drill ventilation holes into the plastic ?
Title: Re: Corrugated sheets
Post by: MikeB on February 26, 2006, 17:39:39
No, just remove the glass at the end when you want to ventilate
Title: Re: Corrugated sheets
Post by: amanda21 on February 26, 2006, 17:39:51
I would guess not as the ends are obviously removable.  There wouldn't be vent holes in the soft plastic cloches - would there?   :-\
Title: Re: Corrugated sheets
Post by: John_H on February 26, 2006, 21:49:44
Here is a nice link to a set of allotment construction projects

http://www.powen.freeserve.co.uk/Projects/projectsindex.htm