Making an easy hoop cloche for my raised beds
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2024
- Following your tips and advice last week, I’m making two easy cloches to protect the onions and garlic from the birds.
I’ve used water pipe, polythene and fleece for quick and easy construction.
This week I’m assisted by the super enthusiastic Delilah in her role of Chief Motivational Officer.
It would be lovely if you’d join us and subscribe to watch the allotment develop.
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Have a great week 😊 #allotment #raisedbedgardening #nodig #hoopcloche
Hi Clare, you have a new sub. Those clips you use for the fleece, you can buy them in the poundland shops, there are 4 on a card for about £1.00, probably cheaper than you paid for yours. A little tip, you could push canes into the ground at all 4 corners then oposite each other in the centre of the length of the bed, then put your mdpe pipe over the canes, that makes your hoops and they are stronger than just using those metal clips. I put canes along the top of my hoops, on the underside, so that fleece or netting doesnt get snagged on the ends of the canes, same along each side. Another tip if you dont want to buy clips, cut short bits of the blue mdpe pipe, maybe 2 " long, then cut them along their length, you can then prize them open and use to clip fleece or netting onto the timber frames of the beds or onto the hoops themselves. Lovely little channel you have, i look forward to catching up on your videos.
Jimmy
Hi Jimmy, thanks for subscribing. Those clips were exactly as you described, 4 for a pound, a bargain. I’m definitely going to try the method with the canes. I have some in the garage at home so will dig those out. Thanks for all the great tips 😊
Nice to see someone getting real green fingers and getting stuck in! Well done you. What a braw wee happy dug you have there. A great companion and I'll bet never a dull moment. I'm surprised her/his tail is still attached with all that wagging. Take care, stay safe and most importantly, have fun.
The tail only stops when she sleeps 💕
@@Littlesheddiaries Then probably the legs get going whist dreaming of chasing things 🙂
The dog : YHeaaaaa Fun hoops to play fetch THANKS humonnn!! 🤣
You’ve summed her up perfectly 😆🐶
Morning Clare, 1:12 ah but that tail going a mile a minute means she’s very happy. Great idea for the pipe 🤞. Numbers are growing so,hopefully other people will find your channel and enjoy as much as I and the others do. I totally agree Christmas can get overwhelming so a few hours in the garden are well worth it. Have a fantastic week stay warm, Merry Christmas 🤶, Ali 🎄🇨🇦
I hope it’s not too cold over there and you can escape into your garden too 😊
Merry Christmas Ali 🎄
I found Clares channel Ali , but we are going to have to stop meeting like this 🤣🤣🤣
Jimmy
@@Jimmy.Plot.41.b😂😂😂
Thanks for the tips on making the hoop netting , it looks a lot easier than some I’ve seen on you tube, I will definitely give it a go .
Cheers
Having learned from a very stormy experience last week, I’d recommend pushing some bamboo canes or metal rods into the ground and pushing the pipe over the cames/rods to give it more resilience in the wind. If you watch the video I posted last week you can see the damage 50 mph winds did to my cloches 😢 I will rebuild them stronger next week!
Great job on getting your hoops in your garden. It is coming along nicely. Thanks for sharing. Happy gardening
Thank you, I’m slowly getting things done, in between work and family. And Christmas 🎄🎄
Happy gardening to you too 😊
Great start, i escape to my plot as well!
It really clears your head doesn’t it. Good for the soul 💕
Great video ,great dog , nice music,
Thank you, she really is a great dog 🐶😊
Merry Christmas , subscribed 😊
Thank you, Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you too 🎄
Brought rebar for a farm job, now use it to keep my hoops in place. Cut it into 30cm length.
When your dog quickly ran through your garden bed I couldn't help but think yikes, I hope you didn't have anything planted it in it! I'm struggling with the same thing. I do have 6 ft high fence to keep the deer etc. out! But our dogs need to be left outside the fenced garden area until my grow beds get higher. I'm not well off so I'm doing 12"h beds and 5gal buckets & bags, old bathtubs, horse troughs whatever I can find that will hold soil! So then I place the black bags around the old tubs to hide the rust lol. You have to put those bags on top of something such as a cinder block or they will soak up so much moisture everything will get moldy and rotten in them! When I can I'm going to add another 12"h level etc. Untill they are 4' high!
Yep, love gardener Scott. He's got good ideas.
There are onions in the bed she stomped all over 😆 I’m very lucky because the wood I used for the raised beds was gifted to me - off cuts that weren’t needed. It’s all used now but is enough to get me started. Good luck with the deer and the dog!
Great video! Plus cute dogs always make them better ❤
Thank you, look out for her on my next video on Saturday, the cute dog is constantly present, supervising my every move 🐶💕
Hey Clare
We love a beautiful sky too😊
No better way to chill than to be at the allotment, we heading down later, to put hoops and netting over our garlic. Allium leaf minor on my plot😢
Great job 👏
Take care
Allie & Tricia 🤗
Can’t beat a beautiful sky 🌅
Happy gardening, I hope the weather is kind to you today 💕
Love the idea of the clips to fasten the pipe to the wood with
Do you have any enviromesh? This is what I’d cover the onions and garlic with, to help with potential allium leaf miner attacks
Love watching your videos, Clare. You’ve such a lovely calming voice and I’m enjoying watching your plot come together. 😊
Hello Clare, I just used what I had to hand as the cover because it’s so hectic right now. I’ll have a look at enviromesh and upgrade after Christmas.
I’m glad you like my voice, I think I sound like an extra in Pirates of the Caribbean with my strong accent 😆🏴☠️
@@Littlesheddiaries Oh Clare, that did make me laugh 😂
It’s a really handy cover and would be brilliant over tender crops early spring as well xx
Hi Clare, I've got hoop covers on all my raised beds and definitely need enviro mesh on any alliums to lessen risk from the miniscule allium leaf miner. I'm gonna steal your idea of those clips. I'm in north east uk
@@joejames8797 I’ve had a look at enviromesh and will definitely upgrade in the new year 👍
@@joejames8797 i am in Gateshead Joe
I don't know if you can get it by you but waxed lacing cord works really well for that kind of joining, it grips really strongly and is weather resistant.
I’ll take a look, thanks for the tip 😊
Great job 👏🏼
Thank you 😊
What was the dimensions of the pipes you're using? Looks smashing, great job!
Thank you 😊 I bought a 25 metre roll from Amazon, then it was just an estimation by physically holding the pipe in place so it was high enough. I’m not sure how high those onions will grow so I made sure there was plenty of room. Once I’d cut one I used the first as a template for all of them. With hindsight I would have made them a little lower.
I’m going to use Enviromesh to keep pests off, popping that on this week 👍
@@Littlesheddiaries that is awesome! I'm looking into some here where I live too. My growing space isn't all that much, but I found a shorter roll at the local animal shop (Felleskjøpet, in case you have some other Norwegian watchers). I'll use it om my brassica until they've grown solid. And possibly my strawberries. So many birds 🐦❤️
When does your growing season start and end in Norway? You’re much further North than me. Different set of challenges I imagine.
Hi Claire, just stumbled across your utube channel, look forward to seeing more of them 🙂 I've been using the sticks of bamboo canes for the hoops but they can break. I'm considering using the metal clamps for raised beds, what size opening have you been using, ie 25mm etc, not sure where to start with this...
Hi, thanks for subscribing. I used 25mm pipe. I’m going to look for some metal rods to support the pipe because the clamps alone failed miserably. I’m worried bamboo will snap because it’s so exposed up at the allotment, the wind really rips through it.
I’m glad you enjoyed the videos, I thinking will be nice looking back in a years time at how it has developed (I hope 😊).
👍👍👍
😅 At delilah. Running over the bed, at least she's little. ❤
What type of pipe do you use? I've seen others use the blue. I like the clip ideas.
Great video as a distraction my end from Xmas too.
Take care, Jane
Hi Jane, I just typed water pipe into Amazon and this came up. It’s perfect. Look up Gardener Scott on you tube, he has a great video where he shows several different ways of making hoops for raised beds.
Delilah is hilarious, always up to something 😆
@@Littlesheddiariesthanks 😊
Thank you for sharing this, music was a bit loud
Thanks for the feedback, I’m still learning about editing as well as gardening😊
I’ll pay more attention to it on my next video and see if I can get the balance right👍
@@Littlesheddiaries Clare, if you are using editing software you should be able to alter the volume as you make the video, providing you listen to it as you edit.
@@Jimmy.Plot.41.b I’ve done some homework and hopefully tomorrow’s video will be better. That said, the wind is howling here and I don’t have a decent mic, so there’s work to do there. Maybe Santa will bring me a nice mic 🎅🏻
@@Littlesheddiaries i have a wireless mic but its rubbish in windy weather Clare, but until you are really good at the editing and making videos a cheap one will do you, well it does me anyway lol.
Jimmy
The update is creepier than the whole story. 🤪
Those rooks were especially creepy at Halloween 😆