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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 Mikroclima fabric to cover hoop houses or cloches and give nature a helping hand
Here is
why....
Four years
ago when
we started our new vegetable garden. We wanted to protect the vegetable seeds and seedlings when planted out in the garden beds. We found a fabric called Mikroclima that promised to do the trick.
Well it
really worked. The veggies thrived and the row cover fabric kept out most of the insect pests.
See the veggies we have grown |
Inside a Mikroclima hoop house
Seedlings getting a good start!
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We enlarged our veggie patch the next year and also used Mikroclima for mature plants. It helped to protect from birds at fruiting time and we grew many varieties of vegetables and herb. Mikroclima saved our plants from damage by strong
winds, hail, light frost, birds, kangaroos, small children, dogs, etc.
You can make a frame to support Mikroclima or just use it as a floating row cover.
Mikroclima
fabric
on a poly pipe frame
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Mikroclima
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 readily available poly pipe often used for reticulation. |
You can choose from four standard pack sizes
2m
x 5 m,
2m x 10m,
3m x 7m and
4m x 5m
or
order by the length you need
Just click on the link below to choose your Mikroclima.
We guarantee you will be glad you did.
If you need help on choosing the right size...
But why does it
work so well?
Every gardener
knows that vegetables grow better when damage from insects and bad weather is minimised. 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 Mikroclima
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 -4oC
(28oF).
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 |
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