[JayG]

Good job we don't have a 'Best crop protection construction' competition running on here - there would only be one entrant! 

[sunshineband]

That is truly excellent, Barley. What productive way to spend those winter evenings 

[pdblake]

wow 

[Eightball]

I was just thinking we have a very old 5 person tent frame bought circa 1975 which I put into the storage unit 18 months ago because my eldest daughter thought she might need it - maybe, just maybe, if I can find someone to help me sort out the netting we could have a very large frame just like yours!

Where did you get the gazebo frame from? I could do with something like that to construct a fruit cage. Also have you got a door? Also how is it in the wind? have you put the upright poles into the ground?

mjg / eight ball my gazebo came from ebay about 5 years ago for a party - we only paid £40 for it
here's the same one for a similar price --- http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3M-x-9M-Waterfroof-Outdoor-Garden-Gazebo-Canopy-Party-Wedding-Tent-Marquee-/271838229594 --- I only used half the legs for height as it would be to tall otherwise for just cabbages  , and one other thing we did was drill holes in the tubular frames and plastic holders and placed split pins through them as we found the frame a bit flimflam ( after all it was only £40 so didn't expect it to be that robust for that money  )



we used road pins tied to the poles to anchor it down like these



and I just cut the netting to the gazebo shape and pinned it together whilst the frame was up last autumn and then used nylon twine like this to sew it together - I did it by hand whilst watching TV in the winter - my living room was like a fishermans trawler doing fishing net repairs  no door just open a flap back and climb in and then clip it up again after leaving



oh and I used plant clips similar to these to hold it on the frame

Blimey! That's fantastic. Just how many cabbages do you grow??

about 80 total - summer cabbage , January kings and brussells

Cool thanks. Any chance of a close up shot of the split pins so I can better understand what you mean?

Did you leave it up all winter?

[Mum2mj]

Awesome set up! 

[mrsbean]

wow... from me too. i got OH to cover my 3 shelf plastic greenhouse with scaffold green netting as a hardening up tent. will make him view your brill job, in the hope he may get some ideas. well done you.

[barley]

Cool thanks. Any chance of a close up shot of the split pins so I can better understand what you mean?

Did you leave it up all winter?

certainly -   this is one of the top plastic holders that the tubes go into - we drilled through them both when they were pushed together and just pushed a large split pin through as they tended to pull apart easily without some sort of pin , we didn't spread the pin underside as it holds it firm enough just being pushed through but you could spread them if you wanted to

and I numbered them with a marker pen so I knew which ones go together next time

on the side ones we did the same but just used up some plastic headed nails we had left over , just drill the same and pushed trough

and here's a close up of the clips holding the netting

and No we didn't have it up all winter , don't need to no pesky cabbage whites about then - seen 1 today though so get netting 

 

[snowdrops]

How funny is that, hubby said just the other day about doing exactly the same thing . Looks brilliant.

[Urbanite]

impressive!