MAKE YOUR OWN Crop covers
can be hard to keep birds off a strawberry crop. It can be hard to keep butterflies from laying eggs on cabbages and then there’s the problem of blackbirds scratching around and uprooting newly planted lettuces. Of course, you can just throw netting over the top of plants, but birds will land on top and peck through to reach ripe fruits, and leaves pressed close to the net are vulnerable. The best solution is to protect at-risk crops with a rigid frame that’s covered with netting. It
