Jump to content
AJuff

Compost, raspberries and cloches!

Recommended Posts

Before the cold snap I planted out the raspberries and felt delighted to put a spadeful of home made compost in with each one! :D (What a pity I don't have enough to fill my new raised beds!) :( I also put in three potatoes left over from school planting and put one of my new cloches over them. The supports seemed very flimsy to me as did the plastic. After a bit of wind, rain and snow it is completely trashed as I suspected it would. Now I'm not sure what to buy to replace it. Can anyone recommend a sturdy cloche that will stand the elements?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

buy some of that blue plastic water pipe, the flexible one from builders merchants.

cut into four equal lengths.

Now get yourself eight garden canes, stick them deeply into the ground in two rows of four, evenly spaced.

jam the pipe onto the first cane, bend it over and jam onto the first cane in the second row to make an arch.

Do the same again with the second canes and so on till you have a 'tunnel'

 

Now you can cover this with polythene to protect from frost and later, when risk of frost has passed, you can change the cover for netting to keep birds of or environmesh to keep bugs off and so on :lol:

 

This idea came originally from the late, great geoff Hamilton. The tube tunnels last for years and years....you never need take them down if you don't want to, :D

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I use tent pegs, just three each side to hold it :D

then I gather up the two ends and twist them till taught at ground level, pinning with another peg each.

Geoff Hamilton simply buried the edges with three inches of topsoil but I have found that even the slightest breeze makes this a very tiresome task

:roll:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.




×
×
  • Create New...