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Old 29-02-2008, 05:49 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Home made cloches for raised beds.


"Trevor" wrote in message
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Looking to make improvised cloches using fleece or mesh for carrots and
brassicas. I have found steel rods for 83p per m for 12mm and found 15mm
plastic pipe at builders merchant (may be a bit slack). Has anyone done it
this way, perhaps with alkathene? I was thinking of 36 inch rods 18
inches in the ground. Beds are 5 ft across.

Would be interested to here of any success - dimensions, costs etc

Trevor
East Yorkshire


I can't offer you personal experience Trevor, but you see them often in
magazines, on TV etc...:

Google has loads of info:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ic+pipe+-clock
Jenny