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Originally Posted by warch
Great pics, foot. You're serious! Floating row covers, eh?! Posh.
The community veggie plot I work on just this weekend got some donated cukes, tomatos, cabbages, brussels sprouts and peppers. We're a little more rustic (and less effective) in our arrangements and critter barriers. I'll try for some pics. The harvest goes to our neighborhood seniors org, and all that they want are tomatoes and more tomatoes.
That dump truck pic is ridiculously cute.
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I got the row covers through Fedco (
www.fedcoseeds.com) check the organic growers supply section. 250 feet of 83" wide row cover was only 37 dollars. It seemed a better alternative to losing my entire cuke crop (like last year) to the evil striped cucumber beetles.
They gave the cukes bacterial wilt in fifteen minutes. I set the seedlings out to harden off, I went in the house to get a cup of coffee, came back and they were covered in beetles. I maybe got ten pounds of cukes from eight plants.
Not again.
Each year I meet a new critter, and each year I figuratively close the barn door after the horse has fled.
It keeps me off the streets, as my dad used to say.