How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh

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How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« on: December 30, 2011, 08:36 »
What is the best way of securing Environmesh to cover crops?

I'm thinking for crops like cabbage etc later in the season. I'm new to gardening and haven't actually planted anything yet. Itching to get started! You can tell what I got for Christmas!  :)

Has anyone tried out Tri-pegs or would you just weigh it down with stones?

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #1 on: December 30, 2011, 08:48 »
This is my carrot/parsnip cover, recently put in place. I weigh the edges down with bricks or 4 pint milk containers filled with water.

It's a non-invasive procedure, unlike pegs.



Sorry - forgot to link in photo.
« Last Edit: December 30, 2011, 09:19 by DD. »
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #2 on: December 30, 2011, 09:05 »
Like DD I would secure with bricks or similar (planks if you have any etc)

Thinking of treating us to some envoironmesh this year but it is a little bit too costly to be putting holes in to secure it.

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2011, 09:08 »
Bricks for me too
I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days all attack me at once...

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #4 on: December 30, 2011, 09:10 »

 it is a little bit too costly to be putting holes in to secure it.

Exactly!

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #5 on: December 30, 2011, 09:14 »
Enviromesh is quite tough but I agree with DD that any pegs I have tried do damage to the mesh. I have not tried the clip on tags that you then peg down but they work out expensive. I usually hold down the edges with poles or pieces of wood. Most brassicas will support light netting themselves but need a few pegs to hold it up when they are small.

My carrot cover is built as follows. Do this after sowing so that you know where the rows are. I usually wait until the carrots are up before covering.
 *Bury one long edge in a 3 inch trench about 6 inches from the outside row.
 *For supports cut 2 foot lengths of 1 inch plastic pipe obtained from a skip. Better than  wood as the net will slide over them without catching.
 *Push the supports 6 inches into the ground spaced at 1 yard apart. Better in the rows than between so that they are not in the way of hoeing.
 * Drape the net over and weigh down the other edge and ends. Because one side is buried this is easy to do as you can pull against it. This also makes it easy to fold the net back for weeding. Using long poles to hold down the edges makes it quick to remove. I find stones or other small weights tedious.



« Last Edit: December 30, 2011, 11:29 by Salmo »

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2011, 09:20 »
Sorry, forgot to link in photo before - it's there now.

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2011, 09:24 »
Your plot looks absolutely vast in the picture!

How big is it exactly?

Or is part of it really Mrs Digger's?  ;)
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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2011, 09:27 »
Your plot looks absolutely vast in the picture!

How big is it exactly?

Or is part of it really Mrs Digger's?  ;)

That's mine about 30m x 10m.

Mrs Digger's is next but one, because of the way the plots taper, hers is about 31m x 11m.

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #9 on: December 30, 2011, 09:35 »
Jolly decent of you to let her have the larger one  :)  :blink:

 

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2011, 09:36 »
Decent of her to let me dig it!

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2011, 10:07 »
Here's a badly trimmed  & labeled piccie from Google Earth.



Sorry for going OT.
« Last Edit: December 30, 2011, 10:35 by DD. »

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2011, 10:29 »
OT on this occasion is gooooood!

and as you say, Mrs Digger is very kind to let you dig her larger-than-yours-plot  :lol: :lol:


Now I want to find my plot on googe E --- wonder how old the photo will be?

Check out my plot -- still grassland in the photo, so it is at least four years old, as I know that area started to be given out as plots around then  :(

So no excitement there, then  :lol:
« Last Edit: December 30, 2011, 11:05 by sunshineband »

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #13 on: December 30, 2011, 11:58 »
DD, have you ever had dark thoughts about annexing the plot between your plots?  :)

Or is a little distance a good thing?

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Re: How to secure crop covers eg Environmesh
« Reply #14 on: December 30, 2011, 12:10 »
Would be nice to get the middle plot, I admit, but with the current waiting list of about 240 in Loughborough, it's a bit of a pipe-dream!



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