Enviromesh, nets, contraptions or what.

**sewer rat** · 13-05-2007, 10:15 PM

Hi Alice
Environmesh is good stuff but very expensive - if you don't have an insect pest problem then netting would probably do the job - but butterfies may still get at your crops so buy netting with as small a mesh as you can.
Can't really tell from your photos what sort of area you need to protect but have you thought about constructing a large fruit cage type of frame over the whole lot. You can cover this netting and incorporate a door so no need to remove netting until winter when a larger mesh net should be used to stop snow sitting on it. I have seen them advertised quite a lot - quite expensive but I'm just rebuilding one in a walled garden with 4" x 2" timber. The netting was cheap - �55 plus VAT for a roll 4m by 100m.

**Alice** · 13-05-2007, 10:57 PM

Thanks Rat, yes I had thought about it but wish I had thought sooner. We had to fence the whole kitchen garden area to keep the beepin deer out. It has 6 foot high fencing all round it on very sturdy posts and that stiff green plasticised wire stuff. I need to cover 3 raised beds - 4' x 15' each. I have been wondering whether to just net these beds or if it's possible to put a "roof " on this area using the fence as support and create a big walk in area like a giant fruit cage. It is a big area and with the fence only 6' high. But I'll think on it. Thanks for the suggestion.

**flowerlady** · 23-05-2007, 02:49 PM

Originally posted by sewer rat View Post

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The netting was cheap - �55 plus VAT for a roll 4m by 100m.

Thats amazing where did you get it from??

**Birdie Wife** · 23-05-2007, 03:26 PM

Enviromesh is excellent and I wish I had the cash to buy more, it lets the light and rain through but no pests. I use it mostly for covering frost-vulnerable seedlings but I think if I had the cash to cover whole beds in the stuff, I'd spend the cash on something else!

**xspye** · 24-05-2007, 09:16 AM

Enviromesh is excellent, but it is expensive. I have enough to cover my brassica bed to keep the butterflys off and use cheaper bigger mesh to keep the birds etc out of every where else

**JennieAtkinson** · 24-05-2007, 01:03 PM

Alice - even though expensive I thought Enviromesh worth it for the brassica bed after losing so much to cabbage white last year. But like others, use a cheaper mesh elsewhere.

What do you have on the top of your poles? They look interesting !

**shirlthegirl43** · 28-05-2007, 01:37 PM

Can I ask what size 'holes' enviromesh has? I have some pond netting which I use to keep the cat off my raised bed - will this also keep off insects? I don't think cabbage whites would be able to get through as the mesh is about 1 x 1.5cm. Madmax has just spent ages putting up a nice big frame for me to net off the bed so that we get some veg this year (instead of the critters getting it).

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