Here are a couple of your ideas Ive tried and found very good
what are the yellow balls 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
Nice work can i ask what pegs you using to hold your mesh down over the cabbages.
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
And you could put mesh over the balls.
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
where do you get that fleece stuff from shirlton?
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
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!
that's a really cool set of cloches shirl, hope you gave yourselves a big pat on the back! :o :D
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
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!
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.