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amazing value for these  green coated metal arches.....£3.99 each ?!

I bought 2 two weeks ago & assembled them yesterday. Today decided to buy another one & create a loggia of runner beans 8)....friend came round and put in an order for SIX of them ::)

I know where I can scavange (salvage?) some surplus-to-requirement piping, so I'm going to 'rescue' this, cut it to size, knock the sections into the ground, fit the arches into them - and by that time the beans will have been seeded in peat pots, growing away happily, and ready to be shown their new home for the summer. ;D ;D ;D

That blue piping is so usefull, I managed to obtain aprox. 100mts of it and using different length canes you can have any height arch you need, depending whether you're fleecing/netting over small plants or something like taller like broccoli.

Quote from: Alishka_Maxwell on April 23, 2006, 17:54:12
amazing value for these  green coated metal arches.....£3.99 each ?!

I bought 2 two weeks ago & assembled them yesterday. Today decided to buy another one & create a loggia of runner beans 8)....friend came round and put in an order for SIX of them ::)

I know where I can scavange (salvage?) some surplus-to-requirement piping, so I'm going to 'rescue' this, cut it to size, knock the sections into the ground, fit the arches into them - and by that time the beans will have been seeded in peat pots, growing away happily, and ready to be shown their new home for the summer. ;D ;D ;D

that sounds a lovely idea Lish and has reminded me that i have still have an arch as yet unopened in the cupboard.  I know just where i'm going to put it too.  Just wish the jasmine would hurry up and grow  ;D

My friend's idea of cutting piping to size to knock into the ground to then take the arches is great. My old arch I tried to force into the soil & it's got a definite lean on it - think it was the weight of all the jasmine over it wot done it ::) ;D

infact i know EXACTLY what i can use  8)

the arch is up, very solid and so tall !  So i can afford to sink quite a bit in my tubes without the OH knocking his head.  think mine was a fiver in asda sale last year and got me a baby honeysuckle from morrison's tonight (i only went in for a pint of milk  :P) so that can gow up one side as my more mature plant can go up the other.

ooohh - you got me so excited that I went today and bought 3 arches !  Will put them up at the w/e.  Noticed they had seeds for .15p a packet as well.  Thanks for the tip

sounds like a bargain!  i don't like to miss a good buy, so where is this place?

Morrisons at Hillington on the Paisley Road West, right in front of Moss Park Heights ??  Know it ?  I've just discovered another pack of tom seeds and ridiculously am going to sow them tomorrow so will need more boxes.  Want me to get you 5 ?

Quote from: weedbusta on April 27, 2006, 21:36:44
sounds like a bargain!  i don't like to miss a good buy, so where is this place?

Dunno where you are.......Google 'Home Bargains' perhaps & see if there's a shop near you? With all these cheapo shops springing up, it's difficult to know what's called what, where........if you see what I mean? (I'm in the midlands, btw)

wow, put my first arch up today - its huuuuge !  far bigger than I anticipated it would be

mine too !  and to think when i first bought it, i was planning to put it on a balcony !!!!  good job i moved.   ;D

I assembled the last of my three today - haven't got them up yet, tho...job for Monday afters, I think.......how are you lot erecting yours - just bashing them into the ground, or what?

I dug more holes about a spade deepand wide, removed various size bricks and rocks, cut up a roadwork barrier that appeared in the garden  ::) for the tubes !!!!!  about 8" lengths, one for each leg, sunk them in the holes and refilled, placed the arch legs one in each tube and filled the inside of the tube with sand pressing it right down to firm it in.  i was going to try your readymixedconcrete idea, but didn't have any on site, so went with sand instead.  it seems fairly solid although i'm waiting to see what the first wind does !!!  three of the four tubes are hidden completely with the backfilled soil, but the one that's still sitting proud (misjudged that one  ::)) will be covered eventually when i bark that area.

it was ok just doing it for one arch, but don't know if i could have been bothered if i was having more (like your good self).  I'd probably have cheated and just done the four end legs of the tunnel, and just sinking the remainder in the ground.

must remember to tighten the screws on the arch today though as with all my messing about with it yesterday it seems to have loosened some off.