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steve.k
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joanne
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tahir
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Behemoth
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This year, time allowing, I'm going to try a cloche made out of a sheet of clear corrugated roofing sheet and some wire hoops made out of 5mm wire. The rough idea is to bed the wire, using a template of nails hammered into a board, into and arc equivalent, to the outside arc of the sheet bent into a semicircle, with some legs for pusinng into the ground.
As the roofing will be trying to push outwards and straighten itself, I'll need to put some 'restrainers', a length of wire hooped around each leg, across the bottom of each leg of the wire to hold it in, equivalent in length to the diamre of the semi circle.
A cane along the top to joing the wire arcs together should keep them stable and make it rigid but very easy and light to pick up and move. It'll need to be firmly anchored but should be more durable that plastic sheeting. For the ends I've got some more clear rigid plastic filched from a skipped sunbed.
You should be able to get two rows of carrots or similar under each cloche. The roofing sheets only cost �5 (ar B&Q slightly less from roofing supplies) for a 6ft length and the wire is pennies per metre, copared to �15 for commercially available products.
If this doesn't make sense please ask and I'll try to be clearer. |
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wellington womble
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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
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mrutty
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Behemoth
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mrutty
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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mrutty
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alison Downsizer Moderator
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Sarah D
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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
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