Does anyone know where the cheapest place to buy fleece, to keep the carrot
fly off next year, is please?


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Does anyone know where the cheapest place to buy fleece, to keep the carrot
fly off next year, is please?

I recently bought some from www.longwoodgardencentre.col.uk. It cost
about 50p a metre.

If you have a choice of quality, the cheapest will probably only last
one season, whereas something better can be kept for two or three.

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Malcolm

ok thanks

Malcolm wrote:
In article , The Devil's Advocate
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Does anyone know where the cheapest place to buy fleece, to keep
the carrot fly off next year, is please?

I recently bought some from www.longwoodgardencentre.col.uk. It cost
about 50p a metre.

If you have a choice of quality, the cheapest will probably only last
one season, whereas something better can be kept for two or three.

--
Malcolm

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Depends how much you want.

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David Hill
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Depends how much you want.

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possibly 10 metres by 2 to cover two rows of carrots comfortably

David Hill wrote:
Depends how much you want.

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Does anyone know where the cheapest place to buy fleece, to keep the carrot
fly off next year, is please?

Try alternating rows of carrots with rows of garlic too, or better,
plant a few carrots, then a clove of garlic, and so-on.

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I ha garlic right next to them and it didn't make any difference. They are
not badly affected like some years but still a nuisance

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Try alternating rows of carrots with rows of garlic too, or better,
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Does anyone know where the cheapest place to buy fleece, to keep the carrot
fly off next year, is please?


Fleece is the ideal solutions, but anything that forms a 2 ft high
baffle will work.. This is the height that most carrot fly will fly to
(according to research) so placcy sheeting, papronet old mesh curtains
or anything else will do in fact.
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Jim

They sell it in Lidle's now and then--can't remember the details--but I know
it was cheap.

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Johnsons Garden Center, Boston, Lincs is at 40p a meter. Cheapest I`ve
seen ANYWHERE and It`s one of the first things I look for.

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Johnsons Garden Center, Boston, Lincs is at 40p a meter. Cheapest I`ve
seen ANYWHERE and It`s one of the first things I look for.

Hi, Chris - I have some seedlings for you - the other lot growed a bit,
Topsy-like. I've got a lot of silver birch, from the first pair of
leaves (not the cotyledons) up to about four or five inches, but all
this year's 'crop'.

Also, if of any interest, a granadillo vine, date palms just sprouting,
cherry laurel, I might spare a lemon, but you can always grow those
yourself - maybe some tamarinds if the next lot germinate, and if
there's any British tree species which you particularly want I may be
able to find one or at least, the seeds.

I do intend to visit my brother and his family in Cheshire fairly soon,
so I'll be passing reasonably close to you. (Starting from Norfolk!)

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Johnsons Garden Center, Boston, Lincs is at 40p a meter. Cheapest I`ve
seen ANYWHERE and It`s one of the first things I look for.

Hi, Chris - I have some seedlings for you - the other lot growed a bit,
Topsy-like. I've got a lot of silver birch, from the first pair of
leaves (not the cotyledons) up to about four or five inches, but all
this year's 'crop'.

Also, if of any interest, a granadillo vine, date palms just sprouting,
cherry laurel, I might spare a lemon, but you can always grow those
yourself - maybe some tamarinds if the next lot germinate, and if
there's any British tree species which you particularly want I may be
able to find one or at least, the seeds.

I do intend to visit my brother and his family in Cheshire fairly soon,
so I'll be passing reasonably close to you. (Starting from Norfolk!)

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Hi, Chris - I have some seedlings for you - the other lot growed a bit,
Topsy-like. I've got a lot of silver birch, from the first pair of
leaves (not the cotyledons) up to about four or five inches, but all
this year's 'crop'.

Also, if of any interest, a granadillo vine, date palms just sprouting,
cherry laurel, I might spare a lemon, but you can always grow those
yourself - maybe some tamarinds if the next lot germinate, and if
there's any British tree species which you particularly want I may be
able to find one or at least, the seeds.

I do intend to visit my brother and his family in Cheshire fairly soon,
so I'll be passing reasonably close to you. (Starting from Norfolk!)

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Gawd thats got me thinking about who you are. G

And I`ll have anything thats going. I cant bear to say NO.

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Gawd thats got me thinking about who you are. G

And I`ll have anything thats going. I cant bear to say NO.

I'll start a Chris mass box then.

There are those in this group who might satisfy your curiosity, but I'll
let you think a bit more.......

I'm grooming three silver britches as a bonsai group. I found a book on
the art in a charititty shop, but I'm not altogether convinced by the
author's examples of his own efforts.

I'll be making some more spicy sauce soon, so I'll have a couple of
dozen tamarind beans to plant. I think I soaked the last lot too long as
most of them went rotten very quickly and only one grew. This time I'll
just wash them and bung them in deep seed trays. They're engaging little
trees: the leaves are rather acacia-like, but fold up in direct
sunlight, opening up again when the currant whatnot slopes off round the
corner of the house and (de)lights other windows.

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