Covered Wagons

Alrighty I had to cover the new half ass raised sort of gardens. Look this is the year of use what you have. So the raised gardens are only raised with the amount of wood I found behind the barn. Ok off topic the reason for this post is the Covered Wagon which are the netting and how I did it. There is no netting on these ones yet still had plants to plant.

What you need:

Flexible PVC pipe

Dowels

Garden netting

Bottle of water

I took pictures around the neighborhood of all sort of ways to attach pvc etc this is what I came up with but I'm sure someone else discovered it. Of course.....

So I bought a roll of flexible PVC, dowels and the netting. Dowels are long wooden poles they come in lots of sizes. I had the guy at the Lowegies cut the dowels into three so for each dowel I got three poles. Two dowels for each pvc pipe. The dowels ended up being about 12" each.

Ok so you pound the dowel into the ground . The PVC  please measure it first and cut it a bit longer because if you want it to go down to the ground you must at least 3 to 4 inches. Trust me...

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 I did not and I now have very large straws for the giant that should be coming down my bean stock any day now. 

Once you have put the dowels where you want and the PVC on each end attach the other end to the opposite side. 

I kept about 3 feet between each tunnel. And from dowel to dowel about the same.

 

The measurements are give or take. Notice on the picture here 

to your right I made small ones and larger. One planted you can cover the hoops with netting. 

This project is rather simple my directions may seem a little unprofessional but we do the bet we can. This project is great for rabbit season and for vegetables that do not need consistent attention. Like lettuce, root vegetables. You would have issues doing this for tomatoes seeing as you have to pick them daily. With the light netting tents you can spray, water and keep an eye one all things under it. 

I planted these roses last year for when people ride by on their horses.

My back area backs up to a bridle path. Then below you have my covered wagons.  Also we have a variety of fruit trees and plenty of nectar for bees and butterflies.  Alrighty have a good gardening day.