Great info, thanks. Corn is impossible to grow in our area of zone 7A. Squirrels climb to get the ears and the stalks fall over. If we stake they still damage the corn.
Squirrels also dig up everything we plant, EVERYTHING. We have to lay down mesh to get plants started. Any fresh tilled soil is always dug up. We live in suburbia with thousands of native oaks.
We use a old cement mixer and mix grass clippings and last autumn's leaves and store it in 55 gallon trash cans for use later on.
Maybe you should invest in a small greenhouse. You can build one yourself with wood framing and some heavy plastic. Add a door and there you go. It should keep all the bad critters out of your plants. Other than that, I don't know what to tell you to do. I have a neighbor down the road who built a raised bed and put posts in each corner and then squared it up at the top. They covered it with some plastic one winter; I don't know why; but uncovered they had corn and several other veggies in there. Hope this helps.
Thank you for the ideas. We pretty much given up and have several roles of wire mesh. We are looking into a hoop type of greenhouse, where 10 ft pieces of PVC are formed into a semicircle and covered with plastic. Although it might be easier to just fill the frame like you alluded to.
Hey! That hoop house made out of pvc sounds great. You could probably even make a square or any other shape with pvc. I'll have to pass that idea on; if you don't mind. Great hint. I wish you all the luck and pray you have an abundance of crops this year. God bless.
What is common in a lot of the northern states are very tall hoop houses, 7-10 ft tall that are referred to as "high tunnels". There are dozens and dozens of videos on YouTube about different types of hoop houses and high tunnels. Happy gardening and may God bless you also.
Great info, thanks. Corn is impossible to grow in our area of zone 7A. Squirrels climb to get the ears and the stalks fall over. If we stake they still damage the corn.
Squirrels also dig up everything we plant, EVERYTHING. We have to lay down mesh to get plants started. Any fresh tilled soil is always dug up. We live in suburbia with thousands of native oaks.
We use a old cement mixer and mix grass clippings and last autumn's leaves and store it in 55 gallon trash cans for use later on.
Maybe you should invest in a small greenhouse. You can build one yourself with wood framing and some heavy plastic. Add a door and there you go. It should keep all the bad critters out of your plants. Other than that, I don't know what to tell you to do. I have a neighbor down the road who built a raised bed and put posts in each corner and then squared it up at the top. They covered it with some plastic one winter; I don't know why; but uncovered they had corn and several other veggies in there. Hope this helps.
Thank you for the ideas. We pretty much given up and have several roles of wire mesh. We are looking into a hoop type of greenhouse, where 10 ft pieces of PVC are formed into a semicircle and covered with plastic. Although it might be easier to just fill the frame like you alluded to.
Hey! That hoop house made out of pvc sounds great. You could probably even make a square or any other shape with pvc. I'll have to pass that idea on; if you don't mind. Great hint. I wish you all the luck and pray you have an abundance of crops this year. God bless.
What is common in a lot of the northern states are very tall hoop houses, 7-10 ft tall that are referred to as "high tunnels". There are dozens and dozens of videos on YouTube about different types of hoop houses and high tunnels. Happy gardening and may God bless you also.