Garden On, Vashon
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I show GrowVeg how to net against birds
June 21st, 2010 at Mon, 21st, 2010 at 9:06 am by Karen DaleCool! I got a photo of my garden on the Facebook pages of GrowVeg.
Earlier this spring, I blogged on using www.GrowVeg.com, the online vegetable bed planning software and have been using the software ever since to plan and keep records. They send e-articles monthly, and this month were writing about strawberries. One reader asked about a better way to protect strawberry beds against birds, so I commented about the way I net my raised beds.
Emails from me, from Jeremy Dore, the creator of GrowVeg, and Brenda the Curious Reader criss-crossed the web over the next 24 hours. Upshot is, Jeremy posted a photo I sent of my net-protected raised bed in my kitchen garden, plus the entire description of how this netting system works. It starts “Do you need to protect your garden crops from birds?” and continues on with the “Read More.”
To see the photo and what amounts to a small article (was I EVER brief?), visit GrowVeg’s “wall” by clicking here.
Karen Dale gardens on the south end of Vashon Island, on a sandy hilltop overlooking Quartermaster Harbor. "Garden On, Vashon" shares what the Island has to teach us about gardening HERE—from making soils to sowing seeds to raising plants to harvest, cooking, preserving, and designing new ways to cultivate your little chunk of Vashon Island. To contact me, email karendale@centurytel.net, or leave a comment.
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