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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: "Aliza Vanderlip" <songbird97520@yahoo.com>, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] screened beds/ Largest disaster declaration in USDA history
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:11:50 -0600


Low cost, flat on top of 3x8 frames, all cheap spliced culls from Home Depot.
Poultry netting stretched & stapled tight under screen. Right now protecting
greens & carrots. Fresh transplants get shade in this heat with old sheets
from a thrift store. Also for early or late frost protection. Catch is plants
get too tall & they have to be moved off then or get some way to raise sides
higher. I can work with the beds by propping up one side with a 4' 2x4. So
2x8 sides is about as heavy as I want to move or prop up. All screws, no
nails. As you can guess a lot of trial & error. But the payoff is a lot
earlier & later produce than other growers, not to mention good greens in
heat of summer. I have used a simple hoop system inside the greenhouse tho.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 7/12/2012 at 5:19 PM Aliza Vanderlip wrote:

>Hey Paul - I love the idea of the screen raised bed frames.... did you
>hoop them or are they square frames?  I dont worry about bugs but screen
>frames will keep the cluckers and the kittys out of the bed but easily let
>the water in....  Will also keep the deer out
>nicely...






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