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[LolaLayla]

Each year I put up bamboo poles and try to attach netting to them in the hope of protecting the brassicas. It usually works ok but because I buy the cheap netting I have to try to join it together and it takes ages. This year I am attempting a different method. I have looked online and have found that firstly some folk use yogurt bottles to cover the ends of the bamboo which I think is a great idea. Also IKEA net curtains have been used. I have now got the curtains (£5) but am wondering about fixing them down as I don't want them to rip. I have thought about putting stones round the edge or sewing on loops to peg them down but wondered if anyone has any better ideas

[Saronne]

Brassicas are a pain. I always have to cover mine to protect against whitefly, Cabbage White butterflies, pigeons, pheasants, slugs, etc. etc.

I use enviromesh draped over cloche hoops or similar recycled stuff. Enviromesh is not cheap (about £18 quid a pack) but lasts forever. Actually, I think EM has a special border edge that will accommodate pegs. Anyway, I hold it down with rocks or bricks - seems to work and doesn't damage the fabric. Re: net curtains: I like the idea of sewing loops and pegging down. I've been tempted to buy a cheap pack of tent pegs - either the metal ones, or plastic.

 

Saronne x

[sjp]

debris netting is what most of the allotments around her use most scaffold companies use it around the scaffold to stop debris from flying/dropping onto the public plus it lasts a fair while and if you need to buy it it's not to expensive most the just drape it over whoops made from plastic gas or water pipe that's been scrounged from replacement jobs on the road or building sites under floor heating pipe works as well

[chickencam]

We have enviro mesh, which is ok up to a point, but I find that we still get grey aphids and white fly eventually, I am trying some with just netting this year and others under the enviro mesh, particularly the cauliflowers, broccoli and cabbages which are horrible if they get caterpillars inside them. We get a lot of pigeon damage on our allotment site and also had a deer problem last winter, they ate the purple sprouting and kale which I don't usually cover.

 

We have long pieces of wood which we wrap into the edges of the mesh and hold down any gaps with bricks.

 

We always cover our carrot bed with enviro mesh to help to prevent carrot fly, this is on a frame of canes held together with old brackets from a seed house and some balls with holes in from the garden centre.