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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Missey on November 05, 2018, 20:06

Title: Enviromesh
Post by: Missey on November 05, 2018, 20:06: Hi - just a quick question - I've got some very large sheets of enviromesh - its a few yrs old been somewhat neglected. Anyone had any joy washing & stitching up holes??

Thanks
Missey
Title: Re: Enviromesh
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on November 05, 2018, 21:25: Not sure about stitching, but to clean mine I peg it to a few canes placed in the ground and hose it down.
Title: Re: Enviromesh
Post by: snowdrops on November 05, 2018, 21:57: Yes wash it at 60 degrees with soap powder comes up great & I patched mine with some taken off the end & zig zagged around the edges. Next time I buy some or wash what I’ve got I’m going to put ‘button’ holes down the edges to peg through like debris netting has along its length 😉
Title: Re: Enviromesh
Post by: Missey on November 05, 2018, 22:27: Thanks both - will try sneaking it into the launderette then a bit of patching - I bought a buttonhole maker and the studs when I bought the mesh but I wasn’t all that impressed with the results.
Title: Re: Enviromesh
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on November 05, 2018, 22:32: Quote from: snowdrops on November 05, 2018, 21:57
Yes wash it at 60 degrees with soap powder comes up great & I patched mine with some taken off the end & zig zagged around the edges. Next time I buy some or wash what I’ve got I’m going to put ‘button’ holes down the edges to peg through like debris netting has along its length 😉

Never in a million years would my clumsy man hands be able to do that ;)
Title: Re: Enviromesh
Post by: snowdrops on November 06, 2018, 07:55: Quote from: Plot 1 Problems on November 05, 2018, 22:32
Quote from: snowdrops on November 05, 2018, 21:57
Yes wash it at 60 degrees with soap powder comes up great & I patched mine with some taken off the end & zig zagged around the edges. Next time I buy some or wash what I’ve got I’m going to put ‘button’ holes down the edges to peg through like debris netting has along its length 😉

Never in a million years would my clumsy man hands be able to do that ;)

Which part the washing or the mending & buttonholes? Lol my sewing machine does buttonholes, talk sweetly to someone who has a machine with the same programme, but they won’t want dirty enviromesh in the house or through the machine 😉
Title: Re: Enviromesh
Post by: Plot 1 Problems on November 06, 2018, 10:39: I honestly don't know anyone with a sewing machine!
Title: Re: Enviromesh
Post by: snowdrops on November 06, 2018, 12:59: Quote from: Plot 1 Problems on November 06, 2018, 10:39
I honestly don't know anyone with a sewing machine!

Have a look in a charity shop & get yourself 1 😊 you would need to check it does buttonholes though
Title: Re: Enviromesh
Post by: sunshineband on November 07, 2018, 15:31: I found I could sew patches on by hand, using backstitch