PVC structure to protect from pests

Here is my simple structure to protect young seedlings from getting consumed by my little garden friends. To take it off I can just lift it up. Here I am starting some sunflowers in a potato sack.

They are are measured to just fit on top of my bins where I can fasten whatever I want to them. On the back side of the swiss chard are snap peas. I haven’t been able to grow them because the birds eat all the leaves leaving nothing but a bare stem. This will protect them and provide something for the vine to crawl on.

Here are my senorita peppers seedlings next to the bush basil. I started them indoors under a glow panel. I am going to let them hardy up outside for a little bit and then transplant. Before when I did this the plants were gone in less than an hour. Hopefully this structure will give them a fighting chance. Picture below is from when I was growing them indoors.


Patio grow bag

I picked this up at ACE today for $12. I have been trying to figure out where to grow my sunflowers this year since my lawn area is covered in plastic and I need to shelter it from birds. This looks like a nice temporary solution for a nice little grouping of sunflowers.

Couple of updates

I have more to post but this is it for right now. My vain atempt to protect my plants from insects and birds. Since I have been feeding the birds they have also been dining on my plants. This mosquito netting I thought would work to stop the birds since they go right through the bird netting. Also maybe it will stop the cabbage moths. Since I did this though I have learned of a cool product from farmtek that is a screening that is very fine but lets the light in.

Also below is my second attempt at the as seen on TV upside down tomato plant gimmick. I call it at gimmick at the moment because I don’t really see why it should work any better than tomatoes straight in the ground. I tried it before but didn’t have an adequate holder for it. Now they sold it with it’s own stand and it tucks neatly in my garden area. That part of it I like. I have Roma grape tomato, big boy & husky cherry red so I will try and post updates on it’s progress though out the season.

The reason I need bird netting