Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat

Chatting => Design and Construction => Topic started by: Jamie Butterworth on March 16, 2010, 17:56

Title: Cloches
Post by: Jamie Butterworth on March 16, 2010, 17:56

Would I be able to use some hose pipe cut into half a circle and have a garden fleece staple to it and then peg it to the ground. Would this work?

Title: Re: Cloches
Post by: Rangerkris on March 16, 2010, 19:36

Not sure if hose pipe will be strong enough on its own.

Title: Re: Cloches
Post by: Rangerkris on March 16, 2010, 19:38

Try and get hold of some water pipe or gas pipe, stop and ask at road work's they some times give off cuts away.

Title: Re: Cloches
Post by: Slowgrind on March 17, 2010, 14:05

I think the stuff you need is 25mm alkathene water pipe. Not sure on the gas pipe I think it may be a bit small.  :)

Title: Re: Cloches
Post by: Trillium on March 17, 2010, 14:11

And if you do get some alkathene pipe, I doubt you could staple to it, so best to use some clips on top and good weights around the bottom edges.

Title: Re: Cloches
Post by: Slowgrind on March 17, 2010, 14:27

If you slit a couple of inches of the pipe ends you could secure some dowels with a couple of twists of wire. You could then stick the dowels into the ground.

Title: Re: Cloches
Post by: noshed on March 17, 2010, 21:44

It will probably be OK, if a bit droopy. Don't bother stapling, use clothespegs. More flexible.

Title: Re: Cloches
Post by: savbo on March 18, 2010, 21:02

or drill small holes in the pipe, poke hoops of thin wire through the fleece then through the hole? or would the fleece just shred?

Title: Re: Cloches
Post by: Jamie Butterworth on March 18, 2010, 21:07

Thanks for the advice everyone :D