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Cabbage cage: what sort of design might be best?

elderberryelderberry Posts: 118
in Fruit & veg
Searching images I see that there are many different approaches, not least in the robustness of the cage...some are built of sold 4 x 2 timber, others from mere bamboo canes. What are the design considerations?

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  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    It's all going to depend on how big you want it. mine this year was 10m long by 5m wide, I used metal poles that are just over 2m long with plastic bottles over the tops. then I hung the netting over that and covered the edges in soil. it meant I could walk inside it for weeding and harvesting. if you only want a small bed then a solid frame might be easier as you can just pick up the entire thing when you need access.

    we had 90mph winds twice and the cage came to no damage, so I do not think that wind is something you need to worry about.
  • elderberryelderberry Posts: 118
    Skandi said:
    It's all going to depend on how big you want it. mine this year was 10m long by 5m wide,
    50m²?! What do you do with all that produce?

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I think I'll stick to buying mine from Waitrose. Sounds a whole heap cheaper.
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    A new gardening friend of mine makes individual hats for his cabbage and salads to keep off the pigeons.  Take some chicken wire and cut it slightly longer than the circumference needed to encircle your plant.  Make a tube, tieing or twisting the cut ends to hold it in a circle then twist the top round like  sweetie wrapper and plnk over the cabbage.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    Is the 'pink' important or will any other colour do? @Obelixx
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Plonk!  Plonker.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    elderberry said:
    Skandi said:
    It's all going to depend on how big you want it. mine this year was 10m long by 5m wide,
    50m²?! What do you do with all that produce?

    I sell it. this years veg garden was around 400m2 in total.
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