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Preventing accidents with cane markers?

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Thanks @Ceres, that's jolly useful.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We've got a carrier bag full of these package fillers. I'm thinking they'd work on the small/medium canes. I was going to use them in the bottom of containers

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    edited February 2021
    Butterfly66 said:rs.

    @Rubytoo @Helios I have a bag full of corks 😳 but can I ask how you fastened them onto the canes?

    If anyone else wants to build up their cork collection for purely gardening health and safety reasons of course- they are still more common with french wines and Prosecco/cava are good sources
    I do not use many corks anymore, but used them for the smaller diameter sticks. \i am afraid you need to predrill a bit of a hole as trying to push them onto a bigger cane is not really possible.
    But it does work out a cheap alternative to "proper" posh ones if you do not mind making a pilot hole. Sober with drill in hand of course.
    If you set up on a workbench with a small bit pilot hole them all, then a larger one for your general average sized poles/bamboo.
    Put a piece of tape around the drill bit so you can set the length you need to drill without going right through.
    Or give grand children serious  elasticated goggles to wear B)

    Not keen on Cava prosecco but Asti has wires on the corks so could tighten the wires on the canes :D
    ...Cheers!
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    edited February 2021
    B3 said:
    We've got a carrier bag full of these package fillers. I'm thinking they'd work on the small/medium canes. I was going to use them in the bottom of containers

    Are they the polystyrene ones?
    They do come in a variety of styles and a couple of different materials.
    Just asking as some (though usually a pale breakfast cereal brown/beige) melt in water or the rain, being corn based.
    Packing peanuts we call them.

    We used to get some that are like half circles.  You can rather appropriately for the topic stuff them over your eyes. You cannot see but it does protect your eyes.
    I used to do a fair impersonation of the master in the old 70's  tv series Kung Fu. Kwai Changs master who was blind. Oh so culturally and physically challengingly inappropriate these days, but by heck it got some laughs :D
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They're polystyrene and about the diameter of your finger and two inches long.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    Just didn't want you to be disappointed if they melted B3 :D
    Containers for drainage but if you compost old stuff you do have to consider separating them later.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I must admit, it's easier to pick out broken polystyrene plant trays. Being lazy, when the time comes, I'll probably just pick out the ones I can see and assume the rest will aereate the soil. If they melt on the stick, maybe that'll stop them from blowing away😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Ah, life changes when you discover Swann and Morton. You might find yourself wondering how you ever envisaged life without them. Surgical blades. The answer to everything (if the previous answer is not 'the right kind of glue', 'long, deep sleep' or 'a hot bath'.)


  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited February 2021
    They look absolutely lethal! @Fire
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    They are brilliant for things like cutting corks.
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