Brassicas uncovered

Farmers used to employ boys or the village idiot a not so bright person to wander the fields scaring birds.

Oh we've got plenty of village idiots.
Perhaps I can encourage the local chav children to congregate near my brassica plot instead of outside the Spar shop.

I'd love to do that, but 93' x 32' is a lot of netting and supports!

Weeding must be  nightmare!

I'd love to do that, but 93' x 32' is a lot of netting and supports!

Would it not be worth it though D.D ? we pay alot out for our hobbies.

I myself have over the years spent thousands and thousands of pounds on fishing equipment yet i find myself reluctant to spend £50 on some netting then get angry to see my hard work being destroyed (pigeons on brassicas).

We spend hours sowing, potting on, planting, watering (etc) and then suffer for the sake of some netting and supports that can be put up as a one off purchase like a greenhouse for instance, (you wouldn't put time and effort into growing toms, cucumbers, chillies, mellons (etc) if there was a high risk of loseing them)) but we do with brassicas!

Anyway just a thought.

One of the things that puts me off these larger structures is the visual impat from them.
I like the view of the allotment as an allotment.

There is a person on our site that has errected such a structure as he grow show Dahlias and insists he needs the cover to stop rain and the side netting to difuse the wind, and he is at the very end plot on the site.

But, this structure is still very imposeing and if in the middle of the site or if several began to spring up then it would look more like a market garden than an allotment and certainly spoil the view.

So there are pros and cons against such a structure but the plants would certainly do better.

 LOL

Perhaps I can encourage the local chav children to congregate near my brassica plot instead of outside the Spar shop.

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