Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Tohmahtae on August 01, 2010, 12:04
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I bought some debris netting about a month ago now with the intention of covering my brassica bed which is abut 8ft by 10ft. I can't afford to buy MDPE piping to hold it up and was wondering if anyone has an alternative? It has to last through the winter, I was thinking canes with bottles on top.
Really need to get this done today as they are getting decimated by whitefly and caterpillars!
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I bought hula hoops, sawed them in half and put them on canes for the same reasons as you. Got cabbage, caulis and sprouts under them
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That conjures up images of you carefully sawing tiny crisps! :D
It's a good idea though - where did you find the hoops!?
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we found abandoned milk crates , placed 6 around bed and covered with debri netting then placed bricks on top of crates, easy peasy lemon squeezy
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look here (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=34665.msg415429#msg415429)
I would think that the bottles would work as well as the balls :lol:
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look here (http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=34665.msg415429#msg415429)
I would think that the bottles would work as well as the balls :lol:
Just a word of warning. I had to eat my words over the mesh size and nothing larger than 7mm works for keeping out cabbage whites.
That's another fiver I owe you mum. :)
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I got the hula hoops from local pound shop but asda have them for £2
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canes and upturned plastic bottles no prob
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I orginally made a blue hoop and debris netting structure but the calabrese and romanesco was soon pushin up uner it and lifting the edge up, so butterflies could get in
I now have one 1.3m high, made of wooden battens covered with debris netting.
The low ones are Ok for caulis and cabbages though :D