Wow, my beans are trailing along the floor and my tomatoes swaying precariously over, as a first year grower in the good life stylee I was a little perturbed to find that Focus charge £2.50 per 1.5 meter cane.

Ideally I need about 20 and there is no way that I am going to allow myself to be fleeced by these high street fat cats... any ideas to pick up some canes at a reasonable price?

Ta

"dazdread" wrote in message
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Wow, my beans are trailing along the floor and my tomatoes swaying
precariously over, as a first year grower in the good life stylee I was
a little perturbed to find that Focus charge £2.50 per 1.5 meter cane.

Ideally I need about 20 and there is no way that I am going to allow
myself to be fleeced by these high street fat cats... any ideas to pick
up some canes at a reasonable price?

Ta


--
dazdread




Are you sure you have not mis-read the price ?
£2.50 for ten - not one

Pete
www.thecanalshop.com

"dazdread" wrote from the dreaded Gardenbanter (?) a message
Wow, my beans are trailing along the floor and my tomatoes swaying
precariously over, as a first year grower in the good life stylee I was
a little perturbed to find that Focus charge £2.50 per 1.5 meter cane.

Ideally I need about 20 and there is no way that I am going to allow
myself to be fleeced by these high street fat cats... any ideas to pick
up some canes at a reasonable price?


N A Kays Horticulture.. 8ft garden canes £13.25 for 50...
http://www.kaysdiscountgarden.co.uk/1.html
Always found them a good firm to deal with.

--
Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London

In article , dazdread dazdread.1re5
writes

Wow, my beans are trailing along the floor and my tomatoes swaying
precariously over, as a first year grower in the good life stylee I was
a little perturbed to find that Focus charge £2.50 per 1.5 meter cane.

Ideally I need about 20 and there is no way that I am going to allow
myself to be fleeced by these high street fat cats... any ideas to pick
up some canes at a reasonable price?

Use any trimmings you can from the rest of the garden - supports don't
have to be straight. If your beans are in a row, use canes at each end
and along the ridge, but drop strings for all the in-between ones to
use.

/smug
This year I've been using my own home-grown bamboo canes :-)
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

Kay wrote:
[...]
/smug
This year I've been using my own home-grown bamboo canes :-)

Sometimes this group reminds me of the Fast Show.

--
Mike.

dazdread wrote:


Wow, my beans are trailing along the floor and my tomatoes swaying
precariously over, as a first year grower in the good life stylee I was
a little perturbed to find that Focus charge £2.50 per 1.5 meter cane.

Ideally I need about 20 and there is no way that I am going to allow
myself to be fleeced by these high street fat cats... any ideas to pick
up some canes at a reasonable price?

Ta


I get mine from hedgerows. A nice walk and a folding pruning saw do the
trick for me.

--
"All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right
hands."
-- Saint Patrick

"bigboard" wrote in message
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dazdread wrote:




I get mine from hedgerows. A nice walk and a folding pruning saw do the
trick for me.

--
"All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right
hands."
-- Saint Patrick


Super Idea !
Could you advise us where we can find cane bearing hedgerows ?

Pete
www.thecanalshop.com

Peter Stockdale wrote:
"bigboard" wrote in message

I get mine from hedgerows. A nice walk and a folding pruning saw
do
the trick for me.
[...]


Super Idea !
Could you advise us where we can find cane bearing hedgerows ?

If you have space, it's worth growing a few hazels to coppice in
future years for pea and bean sticks. And for the next few years,
what about odd wild patches beside your canal?

--
Mike.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...

If you have space, it's worth growing a few hazels to coppice in
future years for pea and bean sticks. And for the next few years,
what about odd wild patches beside your canal?

--
Mike.


Nothing resembling garden canes in our predominately Hawthorne canalside
hedges!

Pete

Peter Stockdale wrote:


"bigboard" wrote in message
...
dazdread wrote:




I get mine from hedgerows. A nice walk and a folding pruning saw do the
trick for me.

--
"All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise their right
hands."
-- Saint Patrick


Super Idea !
Could you advise us where we can find cane bearing hedgerows ?


I use hazel poles. There's nothing magical about bamboo!


--
Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow.
Maybe we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown:
No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday
will get better.

My wife and I grow a garden every year and when we first started gardening
we used cane and it became a hasle so we came up with using hog wire or
foundation wire. We drove a post on each end of the row and stretched the
wire tight. We planted peas, purple hull peas, cucumbers and many other
vine type vegetables. We get alot more vegetables with less place. You can
plant on both sides of the fence. Hope that help....Take a look at my
homepage ( hometown.aol.com/TexasSeedSwap) People come on there and trade
ideas and like to trade different seeds. Good Luck Mike "Peter
Stockdale" wrote in message
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"dazdread" wrote in message
...

Wow, my beans are trailing along the floor and my tomatoes swaying
precariously over, as a first year grower in the good life stylee I was
a little perturbed to find that Focus charge £2.50 per 1.5 meter cane.

Ideally I need about 20 and there is no way that I am going to allow
myself to be fleeced by these high street fat cats... any ideas to pick
up some canes at a reasonable price?

Ta


--
dazdread




Are you sure you have not mis-read the price ?
£2.50 for ten - not one

Pete
www.thecanalshop.com