Kegs as cloches?

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Kegs as cloches?
« on: December 10, 2020, 18:23 »
Good evening all,

I came by a few of these (see pic) today, they are use once plastic beer kegs. The one on the left is a 30L the other a 20L. apparently gardeners use them for cloches? We have about 30 with a promise of a lot more.
Before we get to excited I thought I would run it pass the members for their views. Looking forward to them.
Echium :)
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Re: Kegs as cloches?
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2020, 00:18 »
I guess they'd work well, but you would probably need to drill a few holes in them to let the air circulate, or otherwise they'd be too humid and maybe cause the plants to rot.

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Re: Kegs as cloches?
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2020, 07:09 »
We agree, and was thinking of 3 or 4 3mm elongated slots at the dome end and may be a couple 2" up from the base? 3mm is the width of a circular saw blade and with a jig it would easy to machine them.
As an experiment in early March we will set some your plants under a line of these with a supported thin timber frame around to protect them from wind. I will report back on how things do. My thoughts at the moment are they may make it easy to access individual plants without uncovering them all?


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