![]() Will you make this protective cover? I’d love to know if you do! Find me on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube for more vegetable gardening and cut flower tips and to follow my cold-climate, short-season gardening journey in real-time! I suggest ordering or buying at least a 24-pack of clips, so you’re well prepared! related: keeping bugs off your broccoli. ![]() No matter what your project is, you’ll probably need more binder clips than you think, and once you see how easy this method is you’ll probably do it in other spots in your garden. No sewing, no fussing, and it can all be taken apart and reused as needed year after year. The binder clips make setting up your hoop house so simple. Clip with Binder Clips and Enjoy Your Bird-Free Vegetable Garden I'd like to receive the free email course. If you fill this in, you will be marked as a spammer. Related: Easy Ways To Prevent Bugs and Disease in the Garden If the hula hoops are wider than your fabric, you’ll need two pieces of fabric the same size and clip one to each side of the hula hoop. The fabric on mine in this configuration is held down with a brick. If you are making more of a traditional row cover, you would just cut one long piece the length of your row, plus enough at each end to read the ground to be tied or held down. In this case, I cut four pieces slightly longer than I needed them, and tucked the ends in at the top as I clipped them. Cut and Arrange the FabricĬut your pieces of fabric so the hula hoop is fully covered. RELATED: 20 DEER-PROOF PERENNIALS TO GROW IN ZONE 3 2. Once the hula hoops are cut, you can stick them 4-6 inches deep into the ground. I found it easier if I bent the spot I wanted to cut first, then cut it. Hula hoops can be tricky to cut, and they may be filled with water or pebbles of some kind. If you need to cover rows, you would not need to cross them, and could even cut the hoop in half to get two pieces, instead of using one hoop as the whole piece. In my setup, I used two hula hoops and crossed them over each other. RELATED: How to Get Rid of Pests that Plague Your Garden 1. hula hoops(I used two here, but you may use more or less, depending on your needs).roll of white gardening fabric or roll of bird netting.I will list both options and you can choose. If you are planting something else or don’t struggle with flea beetles and moths, you could use bird netting instead. In the video and pictures, I used a white cloth designed to keep bugs out, because I needed to use that cloth anyway for my broccoli. You’ll need the following supplies, most of which can easily be picked up at the dollar store, Amazon, or a big box store. Thanks for supporting Shifting Roots! How to Make a Cover to Protect Your Garden From Birds You can read more about it in my privacy policy. This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you purchase something I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I’ll give you all the supplies and directions below! And, if you want to see the step-by-step process, check out the video below: I figured out a DIY solution using dollar store supplies that you can easily make in 10 minutes or less. I just wish the birds would stay out of my vegetable garden and eat my weeds instead!Īfter a while, I finally got smarter. ![]() I hoped that would encourage the birds to move elsewhere, but Scrappy (the ringleader who looks like he fought with a cat and won) and his little band of hungry birds lived on another year to feast upon my vegetables. I even removed half of their habitat–some old cedars against the house that were very much past their prime. I yelled at him and he would just stare back at me and eat my broccoli. He was the ruler of my front yard vegetable garden in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. I tried those bright whirligigs, pie plates, CDs, and just plain old yelling at them every time I walked by, but none of it worked. ![]() It’s so bad, that one year I didn’t get any beets, spinach, peas or swiss chard because the birds ate everything the second it sprouted from the ground. Do you struggle with birds constantly eating your vegetables and seedlings? Me too! I love planting lettuce, spinach, swiss chard, beets, broccoli, peas, cabbage, and cauliflower, but the birds eat them as soon as they sprout.
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