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Hello Jack, most garden suppliers sell the black polypropylene, 4m wide netting I recommend, but wide cloche hoops is more problematic.
For polytunnel size hoops over raised beds, check out Robinsons.
Then there are manufacturers of thick-wire, wide hoops, I bought some in Cornwall last spring and sorry, cannot recall the supplier’s name.Hi Jack, A llot of allotment folk around here use blue water pipe or round electric conduit which you can get from builders merchants. They can be lengthened by putting about 450 mm or so of cane in the ends which goes in the ground. For netting, we use debris netting, (also called scaffold netting), which you can get online from Tarpaflex. The only thing with that is that it does have gaps in places due to the pattern. Jeanette.
Hi Jack. I have manufactured the wire ones but it did take a commitment; sourcing 5mm wire wasn’t easy and then rigging a simple wooden jig to bend the shape reasonably consistently. Great once done but it does take some time. Perhaps the blue water pipe method is easier. Good luck with whatever you go with.
Hi Jack. Apologies, I think it was 4mm wire as recommended by Charles, not 5mm. I experimented a bit and found that increasing the legs (the bit you push into the ground) made the hoops more stable. So, including the loops for attaching a retaining cord and two 12″ legs, the length is 106″. One other thing; I found it quite tiring on my hands bending the wire into shapes, so made them batches of 4 -5 at a time! Hope this helps.
No worries. I bought it through Yates & Son in Malton. It was something like a 50m roll though, which I shared. Any thinner than 4mm and they’ll bend in the wind; 4mm works great. The loops sit at ground level and are about 60mm diameter allowing a long cord to be looped underneath them and zigzagged to hold down whatever cover you are using. I’ve ended up using stones/ rocks instead as the covers are then easier to remove for weeding and plant viewing etc.
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