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building a mosquito resistant moveable garden shelter to weed gardens
I like to weed my gardens but I do not like mosquitoes and biting flies.
So what I am thinking of building next summer is a teepee like structure. I have 6 steel pipes that are about 5 meters long. What I am thinking of doing is fastening a wheel on each pipe and constructing some TeePee like structure so I can roll the TeePee around in my gardens. Of course I will get mosquito proof nylon netting and fasten them the length of the TeePee. So I wheel the TeePee around in my strawberry patches or onions or asparagus or spinach or others. Get inside the Teepee and do my work without ever having to worry about any insects biting me. What I have not yet thought out is how to fasten the 6 pipes at the top. I suppose some sort of metal hoop. I suppose the Indians used some sort of rope. Maybe nylon rope? |
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building a mosquito resistant moveable garden shelter to weed gardens
I like to weed my gardens but I do not like mosquitoes and biting flies.
Why not wear insect repellent like normal people? Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so." Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), 1818-1885 |
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building a mosquito resistant moveable garden shelter to weed gardens
It seems to me that you could adapt a bee keeper's suit for gardening.
If the netting is not fine enough for mosquitoes you could remedy that easily. In general if you wear a bulky shirt with long sleaves and tuch your pants into your socks that would take care of most. On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 04:17:15 -0500, Archimedes Plutonium wrote: I like to weed my gardens but I do not like mosquitoes and biting flies. So what I am thinking of building next summer is a teepee like structure. I have 6 steel pipes that are about 5 meters long. What I am thinking of doing is fastening a wheel on each pipe and constructing some TeePee like structure so I can roll the TeePee around in my gardens. Of course I will get mosquito proof nylon netting and fasten them the length of the TeePee. So I wheel the TeePee around in my strawberry patches or onions or asparagus or spinach or others. Get inside the Teepee and do my work without ever having to worry about any insects biting me. What I have not yet thought out is how to fasten the 6 pipes at the top. I suppose some sort of metal hoop. I suppose the Indians used some sort of rope. Maybe nylon rope? |
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building a mosquito resistant moveable garden shelter to weed gardens
"Archimedes Plutonium" wrote in message ... I like to weed my gardens but I do not like mosquitoes and biting flies. So what I am thinking of building next summer is a teepee like structure. I have 6 steel pipes that are about 5 meters long. What I am thinking of doing is fastening a wheel on each pipe and constructing some TeePee like structure so I can roll the TeePee around in my gardens. Of course I will get mosquito proof nylon netting and fasten them the length of the TeePee. So I wheel the TeePee around in my strawberry patches or onions or asparagus or spinach or others. Get inside the Teepee and do my work without ever having to worry about any insects biting me. What I have not yet thought out is how to fasten the 6 pipes at the top. I suppose some sort of metal hoop. I suppose the Indians used some sort of rope. Maybe nylon rope? Spray it with mosquito repellant called DDT. Gordon |
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