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Old 05-02-2012, 10:52 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Jim Chisholm Jim Chisholm is offline
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Default Snow and netting/mesh/fleece?

{returned from walk to allotment}

Last years snow rested on my netting over cabbages etc., but last nights
(100mm+) went straight through.
On the other hand... the mesh over my broad beans, supported on hoops
(made of salvaged yellow plastic gas pipe) spaced 1m apart, was squashed
down.
Have cleared snow,some of which went through mesh, and will need to wait
and see if there is damage to plants.

I don't have fleece over any plants.
How do others prepare for snow?
Remove covers? Better support for mesh/netting?

I notice one allotment holder who had a proprietary ali frame with mesh
over cabbages, who suffered in the wind, has suffered further damage
with the snow (in first year of use!).
My netting frame has survived ten+ years of use.

Jim