Re: Floating row covers - Matt's Question
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- Subject: Re: Floating row covers - Matt's Question
- From: B* V*
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:34:39 -0300
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Your talking big bucks here, 9 gauge wire, heck, I only used # 14 to
contain
live animal. Over a pumpkin plant, the cost would be astronical or
do you have a
secret supplier ?
At 02:35 PM 4/15/00 -0400, you wrote:
>A solution to the weight problem on the leaves is to buy 9 gauge
wire....cut
>it into big hoops that can go over the main vine area....so you
have a pretty
>high tunnel for the main vine....I do this for about 16ft on
each plant's
>main vine to protect it from the vine borer moths. I let the
secondary vines
>come out the bottom and are unprotected except they do get
sprayed.
>David Bhaskaran
>Rochester, MN
>
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Thanks,
Bill Van Iderstine
Personal Best 862
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