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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 18:33

Title: Has anyone got pics. of?
Post by: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 18:33: A tunnell made from the blue water pipe you can get from Wicks etc. We have brought some today along with some bamboo canes, we inted to cover with netting or enviromesh and grow our cabbage, cauli, swede in. I am trying to explain to my husband what I have in mind but he dont get what I am trying to explain. Thanks in anticipation. Mandy.
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:37: (http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1p4Oa_rrZoFAWSOwWVwTV2Jv0vevZaCb7GkMDyaPAJ0YpMcvKDzWNEodQTC2g26SwaHUFRJe4Ngy4mQ9wtkOAtsg/DSC_1357.jpg)

Does this help
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Post by: BostonInbred on March 21, 2010, 18:39: :ohmy:

I got told off for posting links :wacko:
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:40: Opps now i am in trouble.
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:42: (http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1p4Oa_rrZoFAWSOwWVwTV2Jv0vevZaCb7GkMDyaPAJ0YpMcvKDzWNEodQTC2g26SwaHUFRJe4Ngy4mQ9wtkOAtsg/DSC_1357.jpg)
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:42: doh more trouble.
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:43: (http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1p4Oa_rrZoFAWSOwWVwTV2Jv0vevZaCb7GkMDyaPAJ0YpMcvKDzWNEodQTC2g26SwaHUFRJe4Ngy4mQ9wtkOAtsg/DSC_1357.jpg)
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:44: oh dear i cant get my head around this windows 7
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Post by: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 18:46: Hi ranger the link doesn`t work. ???
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Post by: sunshineband on March 21, 2010, 18:47: Leave it for Aunty, Kris -- she's on the way :D :D
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:47: So some help needed i used to right click on the image and save the image ulr now i don't have that option. I got a picture for you lupin of what you looking for i think.
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Post by: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 18:48: AW bless your heart.
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:49: (http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1p4Oa_rrZoFAWSOwWVwTV2Jv0vevZaCb7GkMDyaPAJ0YpMcvKDzWNEodQTC2g26SwaHUFRJe4Ngy4mQ9wtkOAtsg/DSC_1357.jpg)
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:50: Opps im really not sure how to do it now argghhhh im in trouble already hahahah so might as well try and get it right Sorry Aunty
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Post by: sunshineband on March 21, 2010, 18:57: Leave it alone!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:58: Ok Sorry. hahahaha well i have run out of options now so asked in chatting.
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 18:59: Might be easier to drive over to you lupin and show you the picture hahahah as your not to far away.
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Post by: galen on March 21, 2010, 19:01: There's this :

http://organicgarden.org.uk/?page_id=2292

The original bbc link to the "Geoff Hamilton Cloche" appears to have been cut :mad:
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Post by: JayG on March 21, 2010, 19:04: Would this link help you Kris (last post)?

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=53352.0 (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=53352.0)
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 19:06: Don't know if i dare try hahahaha
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Post by: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 19:09: Thanks Galen, not quite what I have in mind tho. Jay So if I go metal detecting on sheerness beach I will find the pic. then. LOL.
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 19:10: (http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1p4Oa_rrZoFAWSOwWVwTV2Jv0vevZaCb7GkMDyaPAJ0YpMcvKDzWNEodQTC2g26SwaHUFRJe4Ngy4mQ9wtkOAtsg/DSC_1357.jpg)
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 19:11: You don't want to hear the bad mouthed rangerkris right now hahahah
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 19:12: (http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1p4Oa_rrZoFAWSOwWVwTV2Jv0vevZaCb7GkMDyaPAJ0YpMcvKDzWNEodQTC2g26SwaHUFRJe4Ngy4mQ9wtkOAtsg/DSC_1357.jpg)
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 19:13: Lupin can the whole thread be deleted and started again :blush:
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Post by: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 19:16: Thank you SO much ranger I apprciate that very much. Its exactly what I have in mind. Will show hubby tomorow. :) Mandy.
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Post by: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 19:18: Ever so sorry to trouble you again, but how do you get in to weed.
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Post by: BostonInbred on March 21, 2010, 19:19: Quote from: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 19:18
Ever so sorry to trouble you again, but how do you get in to weed.

you hire a dwarf
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Post by: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 19:20: :lol:
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Post by: digalotty on March 21, 2010, 19:26: it looks like you could get a good supply of netting off the flats kris when it comes down ,
with permission of course :)
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 19:27: The one with the wooden rail along the top can be lifted, the others i just roll back the netting as i use old metal scaffold pole's to hold it all down
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 19:28: They didn't let one bit go to the allotments i think they got the hump with people asking for it. We got a roll from ebay.
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Post by: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 19:36: Thank you once again RangerKris, you are a star. Mandy.
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Post by: JayG on March 21, 2010, 19:50: Quote from: Lupin lurcher on March 21, 2010, 19:18
Ever so sorry to trouble you again, but how do you get in to weed.

Hang-out with students? :blush:
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 19:53: (http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pJ_CkHATZeeLIG7kBGi0J_YvDJiQW3BLw0Zo9peKRGgpoDvHesKvIz-nn9EXtPQx23dyeISetqH4MLN4yY2KgBg/DSC_1356.jpg)
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 21, 2010, 19:54: Woo hoo its was deleting one of the [ for some reason but i cracked it now i thinks Sorry for me being stupid again.
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Post by: gardener247 on March 21, 2010, 20:18: is that blue netting expensive enviromesh or can i buy it cheaply? where??
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Post by: Beetroot queen on March 21, 2010, 20:23: Quote from: gardener247 on March 21, 2010, 20:18
is that blue netting expensive enviromesh or can i buy it cheaply? where??

Its scaffold netting see your local builders and see if you can get some for free :D
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Post by: gardener247 on March 23, 2010, 17:31: does it keep away the carrot fly?
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Post by: noshed on March 23, 2010, 18:12: I don't think so, you need enviromesh for that.
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 24, 2010, 06:06: Not done carrots yet this year will be my first. I did think if a double layer of mesh for carrots. The blue is just scaffold netting from flea bay.
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Post by: bigben on March 24, 2010, 09:45: I have seen the same picture so many times now -I wonder - is this protection against groundhogs perhaps?
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 24, 2010, 10:24: Ok Ok Ben i was having problems Ok :tongue2:
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Post by: bigben on March 24, 2010, 10:48: Sorry Rangerkris - I could not resist it. You have done more than I have - I have never got round to posting a picture.
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 24, 2010, 11:46: No problems, sleep with one eye open tonight ;) I only had problems with the new windows 7 on my home puter but its all sorted now.
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Post by: Beetroot queen on March 25, 2010, 20:20: I used enviromesh for the carrots and scaffold netting for everything else ;)
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Post by: Jamie Butterworth on March 25, 2010, 20:54: Is the blue piping expensive?
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Post by: Starling on March 25, 2010, 21:11: MDPE pipe at Wicks is 84p a meter. I hope this is the right stuff because I am off to get mine tomorrow.
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Post by: barbarella on March 26, 2010, 01:36: I know I have seen an article on this in Kitchen Garden a few months ago and we are planning to exactly the same and cover with netting to keep the pesky pigeons off. We are in Oz at the moment but I will look it up when we get home and post the details .
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Post by: Rangerkris on March 26, 2010, 06:05: Not paid for any of the pipe yet, its all been donated or swapped. We had a new water main fitted at work and there was a few meters left over.
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Post by: Lupin lurcher on March 26, 2010, 09:20: Gday Barbarella, I brought mine from wicks it is MDPE blue waterpipe 20mmx25m it cost £15.31. Hope you are enjoying your holiday you lucky thing. Regards Mandy.
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Post by: barbarella on March 26, 2010, 09:35: Quote from: Lupin lurcher on March 26, 2010, 09:20
Gday Barbarella, I brought mine from wicks it is MDPE blue waterpipe 20mmx25m it cost £15.31. Hope you are enjoying your holiday you lucky thing. Regards Mandy.

Not lucky Mandy, sick relly I'm afraid, though normally Victoria, Australia is my idea of heaven.

TOH thinks he might be able to salvage some discarded bits at work, but if not we know where to go. Thanks for that.
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Post by: Lupin lurcher on March 26, 2010, 09:45: You are very welcome.
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Post by: Jamie Butterworth on March 26, 2010, 10:05: Quote from: Starling on March 25, 2010, 21:11
MDPE pipe at Wicks is 84p a meter. I hope this is the right stuff because I am off to get mine tomorrow.

This stuf? http://www.wickes.co.uk/MDPE-Pipe/invt/425072 (http://www.wickes.co.uk/MDPE-Pipe/invt/425072)
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Post by: Starling on March 26, 2010, 21:04: Thats the one Jamie, I didn't get it today as I thought I would try B and Q and homebase first as they have 15% some things this weekend.