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Net fruit bags - tomato ties etc.
Dinah
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This summer I experimented with re-using net fruit/onion bags from the supermarket as ties for my tomatoes and beans.
They worked very well indeed. You cut off both ends where there is a staple or a plastic clip, stretch them out, and simply wrap them around the stem and cane and tie twice. They stay in position indoors and outdoors, and the stems are less pinched than with a plastic or string tie, as the pinch is well distributed without loosing exposure to the air.
Please remember, if you ever need to dispose of these net bags, to tie them in lots of knots so that birds and wildlife do not get caught in them, or put them in appropriate recycling.
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I cut up discarded tights and pop socks to tie up plants, but I'm going to try the nets, I've been trying to find a use for them for ages.
I would be very wary of using them in the garden ... I'm all in favour of recycling but I don't see how it's possible to use them in a way that removes all risk of a tiny claw being entangled in them.
Last edited: 06 October 2017 07:20:06
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I use them to support developing melons in the greenhouse but there's nothing to get entangled in the net in there.
It's widely recommended by the RSPB and many others that because of instances of birds becoming tangled, the fat balls should never be hung out in net bags but should be removed and put into feeders made for the purpose.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.