Market Farming

[Willie McKemie <mckemie AT austinfarm.org>]

> I had a bed of brocolli raab simply burnup under relatively light 
> remay (sorry, I don't know the guage, but I do know that the deer 
> tore it readily when they walked on it. From this I decided that row 
> covers couldn't be used in August or July on non-heatloving crops.
> 
> I'd like to hear other people's experiences.

I've used covers only once, a couple of years ago.  I intended it for 
early Spring frost protection, but intended also to leave it on for 
insect protection.  Every night deer are working my fields; the row 
cover made it easy to see their paths.  My dogs also contributed to 
the problem.  Periodic high winds ripped the material.  Within a month, 
the whole field was in tatters.  Anyway, the cover material fell apart 
far to rapidly to be cost effective in my application.  I don't recall 
what weight I used, no doubt should have used heavier.

Has anyone used material that is heavy enough not to be punctured by 
deer hooves?  I know, control of the deer is a better solution.

-- 
Willie
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