This is the netting I changed to Tony

Wow Frank those look impressive.

This was my old house garden, just put this up to show netting cage I had.

It is a brilliant cage Frank, could do with some like that for my raised beds. I use plastic pipe covered with environmesh, but it really isn’t high enough. I need wider netting.

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I’d love to have netting cages like those – and be able to lift them off when needed for access. At the moment I just have nets laid over waterpipe hoops, and secured round the outsides with long lengths of wood. Did you take the cages with you when you moved, Frank?

I’d love to have the space for netting cages like those …. mind you Sheila, what if Alfie got in undernesth

He’d be a dead cat called Alfie.

Aw

They are similar to Tonys Anne, they are all fixed together and I took them apart in winter and stored them in the shed, I could stand up inside, just made from 46x46mm timber from local fencing merchant. I had no use for them when I moved as my garden is much smaller now so I gave them to a friend.

I imagine you have moments of missing them Frank, but your new garden is so pretty, and keeps you busy as well as space for relaxing so maybe not so much

I used to hang the side netting and leave it about 4″ too long, make a shallow trench and pin netting down into trench then cover with soil, this prevented anything getting in, except maybe rabbits if they are a problem.

Hi Karen, the sides are all scaffold netting available from builders merchants, ( much cheaper than garden outlets) and the top as I explained earlier was enviro net but it stopped a lot of rain getting through so I changed this for special butterfly netting which is only 7mm squares from Harrod Horticulture, and never had any problems with butterflies .

Hi BS they are simple to make using 46 x 46mm wood which I bought from local fence and shed firm ( much cheaper than builders merchants) and screwed them together, easy to dismantle when finished with or wanting to move for crop rotation.
I only had sprouts left in over winter as a rule that would be bothered by pests so just laid netting over…[Read more]

I do Anne but I am pleased now how things have worked out still managing to grow pots in tubs, carrots and lettuce in air pots and french beans up the back fence, also tomms and cucumbers in G/H and also bedding plants from seed etc. so still plenty to do. also a year ago we were presented with our grand daughter our only grand child that we…[Read more]

Oh that’s wonderful Frank congratulations all round … grand children are so lovely

Your so right Anne