CmoreROOTS
07-05-2009, 02:17 PM
Anyone ever enclose their vegetable garden? I live in Florida and we have lots of harmful bugs, insects and animals that get in and eat and destroy our vegetable gardens. Since I am totally NEW to planting vegetables I was wondering why I can not use this type of structure similar to a butterfly house except instead of screen it has 1" hardware cloth at the sides and top so good buggies can fly in, to enclose my raised beds. Also when I set up my raised beds I am planning on six 4' X 4' X 18" raised frames. We will dig out or kill by solarizing the soil, then adding a layer of landscape cloth followed by 1/2 the soil, followed by a layer of hardware cloth then the last of the soil. The purpose of this is to keep any digging and burrowing nasties OUT. I also plan on installing drip and micro spray systems for each of the 6 raised beds.
Anyone who wants to see the type of enclosed structure I am talking about you can see it on my blog http://rankin-file.blogspot.com/ this was one we used to enclose some berry bushes.
Please let me know what you think about all my plans.
Anyone who wants to see the type of enclosed structure I am talking about you can see it on my blog http://rankin-file.blogspot.com/ this was one we used to enclose some berry bushes.
Please let me know what you think about all my plans.