Garden row covers

Trying to figure out what type of row cover is best for your garden? Plastic vs fiber, heavy vs lightweight... This article will help you figure out exactly what you need.

Row covers are a gardening life saver. Read the 6 reasons why you need row covers now for your plants' survival.

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Materials You Need to Make Row Covers Over Raised Bed Garden. PEX pipe: This type of plastic pipe is easily available in the plumbing section of most home improvement stores. For this purpose, you need 5 feet of ½ ” diameter PEX for every hoop segment on our 3-foot wide bed. You need one segment for every 3 feet of length for a total of 5 hoops per bed.

In the past, I've told of our success in using row covers in our garden here . I've had several questions about using row covers, and thoug...

I have been unsuccessful with brassicas due to cabbage worm infestations. So this time, I decided that I will try something different. I decided that instead of spraying every 7-14 days, I will install inexpensive row covers before the seedlings emerge and leave the on, the entire growing season. This row cover cost about $15 to make and it covers a 4' x 8' area. I used 4 - 10' 1/2" PVC poles buried about 6" into the ground (we don't typically freeze here); 10 yards of tulle, and some…

DIY GARDEN ROW COVERS. Learn how to make a row cover for your garden. DIY garden row cover allows you to extend the growing season.

Row covers are in use in my garden twelve months of the year. Here is how I put them to use. 1. Frost Protection Row covers help to exte...

Row covers are a great way to keep certain things in your garden {i.e. heat} and later on in the season, certain things OUT of your garden {i.e. pests}. They are cheap, effective, and even though some people think they are an eyesore, I see them as kind of charming. I always think, “Oh, a Read More >>

Using garden bed covers like mini hoop tunnels, row covers, or portable cold frames is a great hack for a healthy and healthy vegetable garden. These versatile covers will allow your plants to increase production, reduce pests and damage caused by the weather, and extend the harvest season into fall and winter. Remember that before covering the plants in the late afternoon or early evening, you should water them lightly. Apply glazes early in the evening as the winds drop and remove them…

The Foodscaper on Instagram: "One more way raised beds make gardening easier! Thanks to @milkwood for permission to repost. No more munched brassicas 🐛 yay Pretty happy with our new row-cover clip system! 🥦 It’s easy to use, made from junk we already had, and won’t tear up the row cover, which will mean we get more years out of it 🥬 We made the clips with blue-line irrigation pipe (because that’s what we had, and it was a good thickness for the job) but you could use other types…

I was asked to elaborate on the construction of our row covers, and having considered doing a post on this subject in the past I was final...

There are many ways to use row cover in your garden. It isn't just for frost protection. Discover these clever ways to use row cover that you might not have considered.

Have you tried to grow cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower but have given up because of the little green worms from the cabbage moth or lost an entire crop because of cabbage root maggot. This DIY Floating Row Cover Tunnel will help ensure a successful harvest of clean, bug free produce.

Cabbage butterflies LOVE brassicas and other winter greens. And trust me, the last thing you want is a butterfly laying its eggs on your veggie seedlings and having caterpillars chomp away at its tender leaves, possibly destroying the entire seedling! Today, I’m excited to share an easy method of bu

About this item 【Durable Material】Greenhouse hoops is made with high-quality materials, to withstand high impact and pressure, provides great stability and ideal environment for rapid germination and growth of young plants. 【Easy to Install and Store】Garden hoops is easily installation and no any tool, double connecting methods for more durable and stable. Moves easily from one location to another, and easy to store. 【Packing List】The garden hoop kit comes with 18 Straight Tubes, 24…

~TOMATOES~ It was tomato planting day at the AgriLife Wondering about those wrapped cages? This is the process. After we get our transplants in the ground and watered in, we set a cage around each plant, anchor the cage and then wrap each row of cages with row cover cloth to protect the young, tender transplants from the wind and colder temps. We will remove the wraps around the first of May.