fleese

[Pottypotter]

How does everyone stop there fleese blowing away. I used bricks but would rather not.

[JennieAtkinson]

Its not something I can use outside I'm afraid. No chance of keeping it! So sorry can't help you PP.

I've wondered in the past whether it would be better to wrap things rather than lay it down and weight it. You could always try putting a bit of Environmesh on top. I manage to keep that down with bricks!

[bubblewrap]

How does everyone stop there fleese blowing away. I used bricks but would rather not.

Guy ropes? & tent pegs?

[dexterdoglancashire]

Hi PP. I use bricks and large stones - whatever was available and more importantly, free! Bernie aka Dexterdog

[Snadger]

I just dig a small trench around its edge, bury edge of fleece and heap soil back into trench!

[sez]

Kinda on the subject, Poundland are currently doing large fleece 'bags' - basically a tube with a drawstring at each end - £1 for 2
. I've used these over my large pots, might work for fruit bushes etc too? And no blowing away

[Sue]

Pottypotter
I use the fleece three-pronged thingy's advertised as fleece tethers, one in each corner of my raised bed. I then use plastic milk bottles to hold it down all the way round. These are filled up from my overflowing waterbutt to store extra water. It takes about thirty litres worth of milk bottles to hold down the fleece on a 1metre square bed.
Sue

[Flummery]

I've got some yellow 'fleece pegs' - they do make a hole in the corners but by heck, they hold it down!

[ysb33r]

I then use plastic milk bottles to hold it down all the way round.

Milk bottles for weights. What a brilliant idea, Sue!

Pollypotter, I also use some U-shaped pegs. I just cannot remember where I got them from.

[Snadger]

My biggest problem with fleece is the birds pecking holes in it to try and get at the crop below!
I grew carrots under fleece last year and because it was weighted down at the sides the carrots grew through it!

[Alice]

What problem do you have with the bricks Pottypoter. I use bricks, stones or anything with enough weight to hold it down.

[TPeers]

I have some old waste pipes on the lottie (...well it is now Mums lottie...) and we roll the fleece onto the pipe and then stones the other side. Believe me, it is going nowhere!

[Pottypotter]

Some great ideas, thanks. I don't like bricks because the slugs hide under them. Birds pecking holes in it I've just covered my spring cabage, well whats left of them thanks to the birds

[bramble]

I use two litre water bottles which, when filled with water, absorb and hold a little bit of heat.

[Paulottie]

Some great ideas, thanks. I don't like bricks because the slugs hide under them. Birds pecking holes in it I've just covered my spring cabage, well whats left of them thanks to the birds

I guess you could look on it more as an opportunity Pottypot. It is then easy to find and destroy those slugs and snails.

For fleece I often use some 4x1 duckboards i have for sowing/walking along but the farmers round here seem to just put soil on the sides- no trench.

Goodness what hungry bold birds some of you guys have to suffer. Are they all lined up on the wire like Hitchcock's waiting for you to turn you back?!