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raised bed / brassicas

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Very close mesh needed, not 1/2 inch, and even then, don't let it touch your plants, she will lay eggs through it.

    I bought a roll from Amazon, not expensive and well worth it.

    With cabbages, you have to make sure the ground is very well trodden down, they like very firm ground, can you do that with your raised bed.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Yep, 7mm holes max.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Sophie17Sophie17 Posts: 342
    Lyn, yep I can firm it down well. the beds will only be 25cm above ground and I've got clay soil underneath the turf I've just removed so I can get in and jump about a bit.



    Thanks everyone for your help, any advice on planting In Between?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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  • Sophie17Sophie17 Posts: 342
    Thanks Lyn, that's the exact same stuff that the greenhouse shade kit is made from so I will use that. It's the right size too which is a bonus image I've got lots of pebbles about the size of a tennis ball I was going to use to weigh it down all the way round, good enough?



    I'll put some radishes in when I get it made, the plants I've grown are still really small
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