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Old 15-03-2012, 09:46 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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On Mar 15, 8:06*am, wrote:
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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.


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