We
have lived in our house in Evergreen for the past 7 years. And for the past 6&1/2 years we have
battled plant-eating varmints and hail on our deck planters. We started with pots that had wire cages that
we built. Well, the varmints managed to
get thru the cage and destroyed our plants.
We then bought hangers and hanging planter bags and put wire cages
around them. Again, both the varmints
and hail got the plants.
Half
way through this summer we decided to put pots that sat on the deck railing and
put plastic sheet plastic on each side of the planters on the railing. It partially
worked: we stopped the varmints from getting in. At the same time we set up a
night-vision game camera to find out who the culprits were. No luck, we were only able to get a picture
of a tail.
Not only could we not discover what the
varmints were, but the hail again destroyed our flowers. Out of desperation, we
designed and built a modified mini greenhouse type enclosure.
We
made it from a 24 inch clear plastic
roofing material (my terminology) (cut from a 8 foot sheet) supported with 15
inch high and 24 inch wide ¾ inch pvc.
We then forced the enclosure to stay in place with a piece of wood at
each end. All materials were bought at
an home improvement store.
These
are some of the materials used in building the enclosures. As you can see we had outstanding flower
displays after we were done.
They
even made it through snow!
All
pictures and ideas were done by my family. Maybe they will be of use to you.
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