On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:57:54 +0100, "doobydoobydo"
wrote:

Hiya

A more apropirate title would have been canes, but didn't want to attract
the nutters hehehe!

Anyway I was wondering if there is such a product as canes and join
attachments for fitting them together, having trouble explaining what I mean
here.

What I want to do is stick some canes in a row of pots, and put fleece or
bubble wrap over that, for frost protection of plants in pots outside. Was
wondering if there was such a thing as a plastic cap to join the sticks
together. Wish I could draw what I mean.

When my children were small they had a wendy house of which the frame
fitted together with sticks, plastic caps with holes in them to join the
sticks together which made a frame.


You can get rubber balls about 5 cm diameter with six holes in, all at
right angles, for poking the ends of canes into and constructing a
framework like a fruit cage, or joining canes end-to-end. Plastics by
Post do them or similar:
http://www.plasticsbypost.co.uk/pbpintroduction.htm
I have some. They are the most irritating, annoying and useless things
I've ever used in the garden (which is saying quite a lot!). The
canes, being of variable diameter, never fit the hole in the ball
(either too large or too small), and if you _can_ get a cane to fit,
it pops out at the first opportunity.


--
Chris

E-mail: christopher[dot]hogg[at]virgin[dot]net