GrowCover hoop house fabric

Home vegetable gardeners, organic growers
and even professionals are finding...

How a New Kind of Row Cover Gives Your
Vegetable Garden an Unfair Advantage
for Reasons that All Gardeners
Will Understand.

A simple idea will help your garden veggies grow strong and healthy and protect them from pests and damage from bad weather. Enjoy fresh tasty home grown vegetables that delight your family and are the envy of your friends...

Use GrowCover fabric to cover hoop houses or cloches and give nature a helping hand.

Here is why....
Five years ago when we started our new organic vegetable garden, we needed to protect the vegetable seedlings from various insect pests. We found a crop cover fabric, that promised to do the trick.

Well it really worked. The GrowCover garden fabric kept out most of the insect pests. Our veggies thrived because, to our surprise, the the GrowCover also gave the plants a great growing environment as well.

See some of the veggies we have grown

Inside a GrowCover hoop house
Seedlings getting a good start!

We enlarged our veggie patch the next year and used GrowCover for mature plants too. It helped to protect from birds at fruiting time and we grew many varieties of vegetables and herbs. GrowCover saved our plants from damage by strong winds, hail, light frost, birds, kangaroos, dogs, etc.

We experimented with various frames to support the fabric, but it could just be used as a floating row cover.

We were so happy with the fabric that we wanted to make GrowCover available to other gardeners. So the idea of Veggiepatch was sown, and its's been growing well ever since.

For a full range of our garden products have a look at the Veggiepatch Quick Cart

GrowCover fabric
on a poly pipe frame

GrowCover is a versatile and durable row cover fabric that encourages the growth of strong and productive vegetables and herbs in the home garden

It creates a healthy micro-climate that nurtures your plants in the good times and protects them from the bad.

A hoop house like this is simple to build using poly pipe often used for reticulation. Or have a look at out new GrowHouse Frame kits for another solution.

But why does it work so well?

Every gardener knows that vegetables grow better when damage from insects and bad weather is minimized. Frequently nature isn't too helpful that way. It is too hot, or too dry, or too windy or too cold. So plants have to struggle and contend with insect pests as well.

But GrowCover smoothes out all these problems because it creates a gentle micro-climate. It helps to retain moisture in the soil without causing excessive heat build up or condensation because it allows good air circulation. It protects from strong winds and if the weather is cool or cold it helps retain warmth in the soil so you can plant out earlier. It even protects against frost down to about -4^oC (25^oF).

So it is hardly surprising that your vegetables grow so well.

This is what a recognised authority has to say...

"Crop protection

Crops are vulnerable to many hazards that can reduce the harvest or destroy the crop entirely. One of these hazards in Australia is the weather. Gardens in southern and mountain areas may
experience frost that destroys young seedlings or flowers before fruit set. In hot climates excessive heat may be hazardous or in the tropical wet; it may be excessive wind and rain. Other hazards include birds, rabbits and other pests. The greatest difficulty with all these hazards is that their timing is unpredictable. The best solution therefore is crop protection."
(Our emphasis).

Fruit & Vegetable Gardening in Australia, Michael Pollock (ed) Dorling Kindersley Australia 2006. p.43 .Published in association with The Royal Horticultural Society

GrowCover garden fabric is a great innovation for the home veggie garden
and makes a genuine contribution to the environment.

The home gardener can now confidently expect that their vegetables under GrowCover will grow better, faster and be ready for harvest earlier. Not only will you enjoy the freshness and excellent taste of your own vegetables straight from the garden to the plate, but also the knowledge that you are making a genuine contribution to the environment by reducing greenhouse gases.

Just think how many food miles are saved, to say nothing of the real monetary savings. Veggie prices are rising to such an extent that it is now economical for the supermarkets to import 'fresh' vegetables from overseas!

As the home gardener you still have to give your plants healthy nutritious soil, sunlight, mulch and water. Drip irrigation works best with GrowCover but you can water through the fabric with a hose. You won't need to lift it except for weeding, harvesting or just for curiosity and that's easy to do.

It is designed to allow both rain and sunlight (84%) through yet allows free air movement so that plants don't overheat. This is one of the reasons why plants are healthy and thrive under its protection. Birds seem to find it hard to see through so they don't even try to get at your tomatoes or fruit, unlike ordinary netting.

We are so sure that GrowCover will live up to our claims that we guarantee it - unconditionally. See below...

Need to move your GrowCover? Nothing could be easier even for gardeners with restricted mobility. It is so light, only 35g to the square metre (about 1 oz per sq yard) Yet the material is tough too. It is knitted, not woven, so that accidental small cuts do not run and the manufacturers claim a life of 8 years for both GrowCover and GrowCover HD.

We bought our first piece of GrowCover in 2005 and it still works as good as new.

Many of our customers have asked if we provide support frames for the
GrowCover fabric - well now we do!

It's been quite an adventure searching for them, but we found some at last made by an innovative Japanese company and our first consignment hs just arrived.

With sturdy plastic coated steel frames, clamps and GrowCover, the kit is just right for the vegetable garden or raised beds

GrowHouse components - sturdy and easy to assemble. You will be protecting your vegetables within 45 minutes of opening the box.

......more about our new GrowHouse Frame Kits

We are confident that you will be very pleased by the difference GrowCover garden fabric makes, so get some today. In fact, we are so sure that you will love it we will give you an....

Unconditional Guarantee.

If you are not happy with Growcover, GrowCover HD or any other product we supply, for any reason, just return it to us within 6 months and you will be refunded the full price of the item.