Topic: New winter veg & sky rats.

[telboy]

Hi all,
Planted a load of winter brassicas in the last few days & thought about the buggers.
Did net the sprouts but thought 'will they strike the unprotected brassicas'?
'Cors they started to nibble at the edges & you know when they get the taste they strip the lot!
So I did what I do with 'poking through peas'.
Pushed some of those thin sticks about 9" from the rows & about 4ft. intervals along the rows both sides.
OH gets me reels of that Polyester M782(Gutermann) twine & I twist it around the sticks along the rows & across the wider rows.
Don't have pea probs. so I thought it could work with brassica seedlings & it's a lot easier than netting in the first months.
Interestingly, as we had quite a hard winter, the sky rats didn't do any damage this winter?

[earlypea]

Gotta photo Telboy?

I feel like I'm single-handedly supporting the entire netting industry - I'd love to see the pea protection especially.  Smothered in peas and yet again not enough netting.

Thanks

[telboy]

Would love oblige earlypea, but i don't thing black twine would show, do you?
Luv,
Telboy.