I was intrigued this morning to see a cabbage white butterfly trying to gain access to my brassicas patch. It didn't get in so I reckon the netting cage was well worth it. You can of course make your own cage using timber supports and purchase the 7mm netting from a garden centre and devise some means of securing the netting to the ground. If I can work out how to post pics I will take some and post them here tomorrow (providing the problem with posting pics has been sorted). I have posted many pics over the past few years but I changed over to an iMac and a MacBook Pro about 18 months ago so I will need to either boot up my old PC which is now extremely slow or find out the procedure to upload pics from my MacBook or iMac.
Scroggin is right re water pipe & netting: I did contemplate this for my raised beds but I wanted something a bit more robust to stand at least 6 ft over the bed. A friend recommended Knowle Nets of Bridport, Dorset and having used them before for a smaller bed I gave them a call. The guy on the phone was extremely helpful and I decided at nearly 73 to avoid the hassle and order what I wanted. Nets and frame were tailor made for my plot, were very easy to install, (they came with comprehensive instructions), and is doing a great job. As I said in an earlier post they are not cheap (including delivery my 3mts x 1.2mts x 2mts high frame came to £123) but there is a certain feeling of satisfaction when you plan and make something yourself and save yourself a considerable sum of money.
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Hello
You have been so helpful with the advice. Will have to keep my fingers crossed and get netted up I think.
Hi Sam50,
I was intrigued this morning to see a cabbage white butterfly trying to gain access to my brassicas patch. It didn't get in so I reckon the netting cage was well worth it. You can of course make your own cage using timber supports and purchase the 7mm netting from a garden centre and devise some means of securing the netting to the ground. If I can work out how to post pics I will take some and post them here tomorrow (providing the problem with posting pics has been sorted). I have posted many pics over the past few years but I changed over to an iMac and a MacBook Pro about 18 months ago so I will need to either boot up my old PC which is now extremely slow or find out the procedure to upload pics from my MacBook or iMac.
Regards
John H
OK, here goes with my attempt to put a pic up showing my netting frame over my brassicas:
Ah! it seems to have worked
I decided to boot up the old PC and pics are loading ok again
John that looks amazing. Oh I have a long way to go
Scroggin is right re water pipe & netting: I did contemplate this for my raised beds but I wanted something a bit more robust to stand at least 6 ft over the bed. A friend recommended Knowle Nets of Bridport, Dorset and having used them before for a smaller bed I gave them a call. The guy on the phone was extremely helpful and I decided at nearly 73 to avoid the hassle and order what I wanted. Nets and frame were tailor made for my plot, were very easy to install, (they came with comprehensive instructions), and is doing a great job. As I said in an earlier post they are not cheap (including delivery my 3mts x 1.2mts x 2mts high frame came to £123) but there is a certain feeling of satisfaction when you plan and make something yourself and save yourself a considerable sum of money.