RE: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #75 (UNCLASSIFIED)

What are you planning on using the greenhouse for?  You can build a hoophouse
out of pvc piping and plastic in just about any size you want.  If you're
interested, I can send you several links on building hoophouses.  I'm planning
an early start next year here in Vermont, and hoophouses are a viable
alternative to waiting for an early, warm spring.  Steve M.

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Tooley, Leigh CIV USA AMC <leigh.tooley@us.army.mil>
wrote:

From: Tooley, Leigh CIV USA AMC <leigh.tooley@us.army.mil>
Subject: RE: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #75 (UNCLASSIFIED)
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 1:44 PM

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Thanks George, that sounds like a good idea.  Up until this point, I've
been leaving my windows dirty (also a good excuse for laziness).  But I
still get a few hits a day.

Re those with chickens; I get Mother Earth News.  They've been passing
along a lot of good hints for poultry protection.  Some folks have
outsmarted the varmints in this string:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Ask-Our-Experts/Sustainable-Farming/Prote
cting-Free-Range-Chickens.aspx

And a question - has anyone ever purchased any of these types of
greenhouses?  http://www.patiostore.com/greenhouse/Greenhouses2.html
I'm thinking of buying the Dream House, but was wondering how long they
hold up.  I would disassemble it for winter storage.  Thanks for any
advice.

Leigh in NE PA


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pumpkins@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of George & Carolyn Heyne
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:04 PM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #75

We use bird netting in front of our large windows and it works. The
birds do see the netting even though it is hard for us to see. This has
saved a lot of birds.

George Heyne
Rochester, MN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana Sigel" <duchessofgladstone@yahoo.com>
To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: pumpkins DIGEST V1 #75


>I felt bad that so many birds were flying into our picture windows;
they
>eat
> mosquitoes which try to eat use humans alive.  I tried tying ribbons
to
> flap
> in front of them to no avail.  I finally went out and painted with a
> cornstarch/water mix and a 3" paint brush, great big 3-foot-tall scary

> faces
> on them, with eyebrows like owls and scary-teeth wavy mouths, and
haven't
> had
> a bird hit one since.  Of course, all who come near the house think a
> witch
> lives here, but what the heck.  We live in the country!
>
> You might try some of these on your greenhouse.
>
> cheers,
> duchess of gladstone
>
> -
>
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