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Old 15-03-2012, 08:06 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Jim Chisholm wrote:

I think that I am going to give up and fleece my carrots, but I
can't find a reasonable source of small hoops. Does anyone know
of one, or shall I need to get some heavy gauge wire and make
them myself?


I didn't use hoops. I just had mesh loosely laid over them, and held in
place with half bricks at 1-2m around edges


Interesting. I tried that once, and it didn't work because they
failed to push it up. That could have been because of heavy rain
at the wrong time, of course.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.