Veggie Patch Sun Cover. Last Updated on Thursday, 1. February 2. 01. 6 1. Written by Nevin. Saturday, 0. 1 March 2. The summers here in western Sydney seem to be getting hotter, and the numbers (number of hot days, length of hot spells, highest temperatures) definitely back that impression up. It can be hard to keep the garden going, let alone producing, in the hot dry conditions we have experienced lately. The ollas have helped to keep the water were it needs to be, in the beds that have them but the long, strong afternoon sun takes a heavy toll on the plants. Seeing as it was a bad year this year and all the gurus say that global warming will only make things worse I decided to do something about it. I obviously needed to put some protection between the fierce afternoon sun and the veggies, but the question was? It took some time to get the design right, because my original design followed the one my father put in place many years ago. 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Kits; Gallery; Commons; Forums; Tutorials; Blog; Help; Search form. Quick & Easy Veggie Salad – Gooseberry Patch #3. I over course usually have no idea what I am going to have for dinner before I bust through the door from. Quick & Easy Veggie Salad - Gooseberry Patch #3. He built most of the structure out of 2. It was strong and durable and comparatively cheap and easy to build. Perfect! We it was perfect until I tried to get hold of some 2. Veggie Patch; Veggie Zing; Meals. Coconut Shrimp; Crispy Spicy Beef. Keep your Proctor Silex products working efficiently with our replacement parts and accessories. Monday through Friday. This is your personal hand held Gooseberry Patch Cookbook filled with their Great Recipes. FOOD: Gooseberry Patch Recipes. Homey Chicken-Lentil Soup from Slow-Cooking All Year If I wanted it in one metre lengths I could walk right into Bunnings and get as much as I wanted, but I wanted four to six metre lengths, plus fittings. To get hold of that stuff was almost impossible second hand (there was some 5. E”! So after some months of trying to work out a design I decided it didn’t need it to survive a nuclear blast and I would have to use something lighter (and cheaper!). The new design was based around poly pipe, star posts and some timber. Components. When we had a dog, and before the chook tractor, I used lots of star posts to make fences around the veggie patches and the chook area to separate the livestock from the crops. When the fences came down I kept the star posts in the shed, some were 1. I didn’t need to buy any. In any case they are easily available and sometimes you can pick them up second hand. To make the overhead bows that would support the shade cloth I am using 5. To work out how much I needed, I measured the distance I needed to cover (in this case almost 4 metres) which gave me the diameter of a theoretical circle. By multiplying the diameter by . I wanted 6 x 6 metre lengths to make 6 bows but I was eventually able to buy a cut 3. This stuff is big and I had to hire a ute to bring it home in but that worked out much cheaper than home delivery and there was NO WAY is would have fitted into my little Suzuki Alto! The battens to hold the hoops together and support the shade cloth and allow it to be attached to the structure are 2. For the back veggie patch I needed timber about 4. The Vegie Patch Cookbook - DK Books New hardcover recipe book Preserving the harvest. The Vegie Patch Cookbook - DK Books New hardcover recipe book Preserving the harvest. 00 recipes, pick and store tips and preserving. Front Garden Veggie Patch. A few weeks ago, I pulled out my 'Women's Weekly Italian Cooking Class Cookbook' to find my Osso Buco recipe. Radish is a fast growing veggie, and can be planted year round. Transport was a bit problematic so I used the same ute which we hired to pick up the poly pipe. Shade cloth effectiveness is measure by how much light the shade cloth blocks out, hence 9. While I wanted to break the strong sunlight down a bit I didn’t want to block out the light almost completely and get leggy plants that were not productive. To that end I got hold of a roll of 5. Putting it all together. Measuring the polypipe out is a bit of fun, the stuff can be fairly stiff so a warm sunny day helps to soften the plastic. It is also handy to have another person to stretch out the pipe straight and hold the end of the tape measure while you measure out the right length. Once you have the pipe stretched straight out and measured it is easy to cut to length with a hand saw. Putting in the star pickets can be easy or difficult. I have tried hammering them in with a club hammer, a sledge hammer and a claw hammer and they all fit into the category of “difficult”. I recently got hold of a tool specifically designed to install star pickets, a post driver. It is basically a galvanised pipe with handles (see photo) and you lift it over the post and ram it down to drive it into the ground. It works very, very well, but is somewhat noisy if you are going to do more than a few at any one time I would recommend hearing protection of some sort. In designing the cover I had to take into account the chook tractor and ensure that the distance between the star pickets would be enough to allow the chook tractor to be manoeuvred between them. The chook tractor is about 2 metres long so I allowed about 2. I would have to take it through sideways. In building the front one, I have access to the front end of the patch so I can take the chook tractor in end- on so in this case the distance between was not critical and I opted for 1. Most of the star pickets I had were of the 1. I basically pounded them in until the post driver hit the ground, leaving about 7. That seems to have worked pretty well. It is possible to fit the hoops over the star by yourself but having another person helps! Once the hoops are over, pull them down until they have gone as far down the star pot as they will, for me that turned out to be when the end was still 4. That coupled with the bow of the 6 metre poly pipe meant the height under the middle of the bow is a bit over 2 metres. At this point I needed to affix the battens to the polypipe. To be absolutely sure I got the length right I measured it at the bottom of the star pickets rather than the bows, which are flexible and will move around a bit. With the two outside battens cut to size I fitted them by drill a hole and countersinking it, then drilling in one screw into each batten. I left the top two full length to form a bit of an overhang for the shadecloth. I also had to make sure that the battens were high enough for the chook tractor to fit under them. Another factor was that the shade cloth was 3. I wouldn’t be able to attach one side. With the battens in place I pulled the shade cloth up and over the top of the structure so that the south end was level with the last bow and the north end hung down by about 1. Just pull the shade cloth down over the end batten on each side and hammer a timber fastener (a metal rectangle painted green with 8 projections that stick into the wood) in every 2. This secured the shade cloth cheaply and effectively. How Does it Work? It made an immediate difference to the feel of the veggie patch, it was much more pleasant to walk around underneath. I have had problems with poor growth of some veggies (brassicas, celery) which were planted during the hotter times or were in full sun for most of the day. I think next year will be better even if it is as hot as this year has been. One interesting side effect has been that I have not needed to water quite as much in the plots where I don’t have ollas. On the down side, we have had some rain lately and when it is only light rain there is a tendency for some of it to collect and run off the sloping side panels of shade cloth, reducing the amount of rainwater getting to the veggies. Fortunately we have just had a day of heavy rain and everything is well and truly rehydrated. In half a day I was able to put up a cover over a veggie patch 4. Veggie Patch Sun Cover - A New Design. Last Updated on Thursday, 1. February 2. 01. 6 1. Written by Nevin. Monday, 3. 0 November 2. A couple of years ago I installed structures over our two main veggie patches which I covered with 5. Sydney summer, say from mid spring to mid- autumn. This idea was so wildly successful, easing strain on the plants and even reducing the need for watering that I planned to cover the four veggie patches along the back fence, in two halves. Due to the more cramped nature of the area I decided to try a different construction method to the previous ones, and this is what I came up with. I wanted to make a frame up with 3. I have made stuff with the 2. I figured the 3. 2mm would be better, also, I wanted a square structure rather than a hoop style (like my existing shade structures) to ensure there was room enough for me to get the chook tractor in and out. The area I wanted to cover was 2. To make the frame I got hold of 6 x 4. I cut two to 3. 10. I cut two to 2. 60. I cut in two in half to give me 4 legs of equal length. I also used 4 x 9. When I tried to stand it up there was no resistance to sideward movement so the whole thing just collapse in a heap! OK, So I glued the 9. I was then able to stand it up, but it wasn’t happy about it and leaned at several drunken angles. It did appear that the 3. To improve matters I removed the middle stringer, turned the tee piece around on each side so that it pointed downward and inserted a centre leg. I then secured the legs closest to the fence to the fence with a couple of galvanised steel saddles which gave the structure more rigidity. Last of all I replaced the middle stringer on top of the structure and secured it in place with a couple of plastic saddles. That completed the structure! The next morning I got out my roll of 3. The colourbond western fence covering most of the western side of the patch. The eastern side was open to allow in the morning sun. To attach the shade cloth to the conduit structure, I cut some 1 cm rings from some of the conduit off cuts then made one more cut through the ring. I could then open the ring up and clip it over the shade cloth that was first wrapped around the conduit. This holds the shade cloth onto the conduit pretty effectively. I was able to put the cover together in time for some very hot (3. Basically 3 things –I was still not sure of the final configuration so quite a few of the parts were not glued together, this allowed the wind to loosen the components of the structure after which, they fell apart. I had used the joining components (Tee pieces and elbows) which had inspection panels on them, important when wiring up a house but when using them to build a shade house, not so much. They actually weakened the structure so that rather than just falling apart some bits cracked and broke. While being a cute idea, the clips I had made did not bind the shade cloth to the structure with any strength and when the wind hit, they just popped off. This meant that the shade cloth could not bind the structure together, unitising it. To fix it I went out and bought some elbows without inspection panels (inspectionless Tee pieces do not seem to be available), because the elbows were a different length to the original I had to do some trimming. I then made sure I glued every single joint in the entire structure, first making sure their orientation was right because once glued they are NOT coming apart. With the new parts in place and the structure together (again) and everything glued I set it up and then pulled the shade cloth over the top. This time, to hold the shade cloth in place I use plenty of cable ties. So far so good! Copyright .
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