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Canes for staking?!

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  • 14-05-2011 10:34pm
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    Lunaarli
    Registered Users Posts: 450 ✭✭


    Does anyone know where I can get canes for my fruit bushes & strawberries?


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    byhookorbycrook
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    Most garden centres or places like Woodies sell bamboo etc. Be sure to put some kind of cover on the top, say a lump of plasticene. Have had some close shaves while weeding and nearly got a cane in the eye once or twice. You can buy "proper" covers, but plasticene is cheaper and easier.


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    Corsendonk
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    suntottie wrote: »
    Does anyone know where I can get canes for my fruit bushes & strawberries?

    You dont need canes for strawberries.


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    Lunaarli
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    Corsendonk wrote: »
    You dont need canes for strawberries.


    I had strawberries on the brain! I meant sunflowers. :D


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    fred funk }{
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    B&Q sell bamboo. All different lengths and quite cheap too. I got a pack of about 15 and 5 long the other day for about €4.


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    CJhaughey
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    Plant some bamboo, in a few years you can cut your own stakes.


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