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Can you use a glass bowl as a cloche?

jomacljomacl Posts: 18
in Tools and techniques
I don't want to buy a cloche, can I use glass bowls and vases as substitutes?
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I don't see why not - so long as they're frost proof. I'd be very careful about using vases but Pyrex bowls or similar should be OK
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    How will you ventilate them?  There has to be air-flow otherwise moulds like botrytis will develop on your plants. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That occurred to me,after I posted🙄
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    You could prop them up on wedges of wood or brick offcuts so some air gets in. If it’s to protect something tender like dahlia tubers that don’t need light over winter, upside down old colanders, hanging baskets, those plastic mesh baskets garden centres used to support potted plants, old pots or shaped chicken wire can be stuffed with straw for cheap winter protection. If they need light forego the straw and just wrap clingfilm over the top of some sort of mesh structure.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • jomacljomacl Posts: 18
    Ah ok, so you really should get a proper glass cloche? How is it that they are ventilated? 
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    They have openings in the top, or along the sides.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • jomacljomacl Posts: 18
    Ah, I see. Any recommendations for cheap cloches anyone? 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    What plants do you need them for?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited December 2022
    This is a good company, although I've never bought cloches from them. It'll give you an idea of the various types etc.
    As @Dovefromabove says - it may depend on what plants you need them for.  :)

    https://greenfingers.com/d246/aluminium_greenhouses
    The pack of 3 traditional ones looks good
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • jomacljomacl Posts: 18
    Thank you everyone for your advice and suggestions. 
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