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Cloche
LaineyS
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Hello - does anyone know where can I buy the corrugated plastic cloches that Monty Don uses on Gardeners World? Even better if anyone knows how I could make one or two!
Thank you
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You can buy the corrugated sheets from any builders merchant (eg wickes.) There are several ways to keep them in place from using metal hoops over them to just placing 2 lines of stakes/canes and bending the sheets between them and tying string to the stakes each side over the top to hold them in place. Some google images to give you ideas:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=make+corrugated+cloches&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiJ56ijjtvTAhVhBMAKHc0PAtoQsAQISg&biw=1258&bih=694&dpr=1.25#spf=1
shame MD didn't get them out before the frost got his strawberries.
Thank you BobTheGardener - I'll take a trip to Wickes & have a go at making some!
The easiest way is to make a former and wind wire around it to make wire hoops. Then you just stick the two ends in the ground over the plastic. Do not be too ambitious and buy sheets that are too long. Several shorter ones are more useful. And remember to secure them or the wind will take them!