[Pil-pc-oceania] Question for Jedd (Was: Jerusalem artichokes)

[Mike Morris]

jedd wrote:

>  Are you thinking about covering with shadecloth .. ?  The only problem
>  I have with those is that the ends pull in.

I have, in the past, made a similar setup, but using plastic plumbing 
(22mm) pipe ("polycop" here) attached to a rectangular wooden base so 
that it is easily moved by two people (even one, at a push) and it 
suffers from the same problem of the ends pulling in.  The solution I 
came up with was to drill a small hole horizontally through the topmost 
arc of each pipe, and run a length of stiff wire through them, suitably 
kinked/looped to keep the pipe-tops in place.

I use the framework for several things: bird-netting, shadecloth to keep 
insects/pollinators out (for seed saving), and planning to try it using 
greenhouse plastic next Spring.

Your setup looks much larger scale, and the cost of 40/50mm pipe would 
push it higher than I would like for now.  Thanks for the info, though! 
  Definitely worth bearing in mind, especially for beds dedicated to 
seed production, where isolation is always going to be an issue.

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