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[Nu2chicks]

If you need movable netting...but won't pay the Omlet £68.06 price inc postage, you might be interested in what I've found.....I've been thankful for everyone elses tips, so thought I should follow suit (my Eglu sports corrugated PVC top and am v happy with it!)

 

Knowles netting = 38mm sq mesh 1.2 high x 25m = £15

Wickes safety fencing stake 13 x £2.19 = £43

 

Saving £25...I do like a bargain....

 

Of course, you can get fewer stakes and netting to suit your garden and save even more

 

Apologies to Omlet....

[rabbitfluff]

Hope you don't mind if I add another little tip here as it seems an appropriate thread?

 

If you need extra poles/stakes for your Omlet or other netting, Morrisons do a garden lantern hook thingy for £1 that you poke in the ground to dangle your lantern off, but which handily is just the right height for the netting, with the netting sitting nicely in the hook part.

 

Aaaand they're a bit too long for your trolly and protrude from the front so you get to "accidentally" poke ditherers up the bum!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

That is a very good tip, Tim . Might be worth a trip to Morrisons especially (for the hooks, not necessarily poking ditherers ).

[FiggyPudding]

I've just bought the knowles netting, but can't work out how to attach it to poles

 

I bought bamboo poles, taped the netting on (just one) & when I stood it up, the take broke.

 

Wickes didn't have any of the stakes mentioned here, so will try morrisons - will the netting be easy to attach, or am I going to have to shell out for the real thing ?

[Falkor]

Cable ties!

 

I have used bamboo canes as extras with my Omlet netting and I cable tied it on!

[Cooks]

I love the morrisons tip! why oh why do we not have a morrisons!

[FiggyPudding]

 

but how do I fix the top & bottom ?

 

I'm very cross (with myself!) that I can't work this out !

[tom123]

Or use omlet poles, I use these and they work perfectly, they have a slot at the top and you put the pole on top of the bottom row of netting to hold it down...

 

http://www.omlet.co.uk/shop/shop.php?cat=Search%20Results&sub=netting&product_id=1886&sort=relevancy&start=0

 

Work a treat!

 

Good Luck

Tom

[Plum]

I have omlet netting and poles but bought a few of the morrisons lantern holders as extra. You just thread it down through a couple of squares and push in the ground, loop it over the hook at the top and then use a tent peg at the bottom if necessary.

 

I used some bamboo poles as extras before. I put a paper clip on the top wire and then stuck a prong of it in the top of the bamboo pole to hold it up. I threaded it on the wire first and used a tent peg at the bottom as well.

[Jennyhenny]

Does anybody have a picture of the netting held up by the Morrisons Lantern hooks

 

It would be great to see them in "real life"

 

Jennyhenny

[rabbitfluff]

Erm if you squint really hard you can about make one out in this pic - I use them in conjunction with the Omlet poles.

 

 

 

Or this is the linky to the same pic but bigger

 

If I remember when I get in tonight I'll take a better one of them in action!