Home made cloche
I knocked up a garden cloche today for $10 nz and an hours work. I am quite
pleased with myself. I used some scrap 2x4, old polyethelene pipe and some old plastic sitting in the garage. The cloche is 2m by 1.3m and was bog easy. I reckon it is able to withstand a very gentle breeze and light drizzle with no problems. Interested to hear what others have used to make cloches. |
Home made cloche
"George.com" wrote in message
... I knocked up a garden cloche today for $10 nz and an hours work. I am quite pleased with myself. I used some scrap 2x4, old polyethelene pipe and some old plastic sitting in the garage. The cloche is 2m by 1.3m and was bog easy. I reckon it is able to withstand a very gentle breeze and light drizzle with no problems. Interested to hear what others have used to make cloches. I used the "Geoff Hamilton" method (he used to present Gardeners World years ago) similar to yours, using blue polyethylene water piping (available from Wickes) as hoops with a stick pushed into each end and into the ground, and with some clear polythene sheeting - quite cheap to buy if you get it on the roll from a builders merchant (it is used primarily as underfloor waterproof membrane when building houses but you need to get the clear not the blue). A roll lasts for years. I put a few screws through the hoops to provide fixing points to fasten lengths of string along the tunnel to provide more rigidity and peg the string down at each end. A few rocks on the polythene on each side and a very windproof cheap cloche. Norman Digger. |
Home made cloche
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/today...on_index.shtml -- Baal I smile and go off waving (Amiably) - for that's my way "Norman Digger" wrote in message ... "George.com" wrote in message ... I knocked up a garden cloche today for $10 nz and an hours work. I am quite pleased with myself. I used some scrap 2x4, old polyethelene pipe and some old plastic sitting in the garage. The cloche is 2m by 1.3m and was bog easy. I reckon it is able to withstand a very gentle breeze and light drizzle with no problems. Interested to hear what others have used to make cloches. I used the "Geoff Hamilton" method (he used to present Gardeners World years ago) similar to yours, using blue polyethylene water piping (available from Wickes) as hoops with a stick pushed into each end and into the ground, and with some clear polythene sheeting - quite cheap to buy if you get it on the roll from a builders merchant (it is used primarily as underfloor waterproof membrane when building houses but you need to get the clear not the blue). A roll lasts for years. I put a few screws through the hoops to provide fixing points to fasten lengths of string along the tunnel to provide more rigidity and peg the string down at each end. A few rocks on the polythene on each side and a very windproof cheap cloche. Norman Digger. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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