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First Grow Bed Mesh

2025-05-03

In order to line the protected bed, we need three lengths of four foot wide mesh. That 12 foot width will cover the bottom of the bed (<8') and each of the two foot deep sides. In order to leave a few inches of mesh above ground to, hopefully, prevent voles from traveling across the top into the beds, the actual width is a bit over seven feet. Now the three lengths of four foot wide mesh need to be 'sewn' together. My first idea was to have them draped over a metal pole which would allow me to get to both sides of the 'cloth' to bind it together,. That worked well for the first eight feet or so, but then I keppt getting bulges where the cloth did not line up nicely. Note that 1/4 inch hardware cloth is suggested by the wildlife departments to deter voles as they can squeeze through even 1/2 inch spaces. So the binding between the lengths of cloth need to be pretty tight as well.
As that was not working, at all, I decided to try just laying the center length in the bed and stapling the two side lengths to it. That did work MUCH better.
With no actual experience with this hardware determent method, and no resources found online, I was worried about the seams. So we used a LOT of fabric staples to bind the seams ... like every couple inches at most. It does seem reasonable to use just enough staples to keep the mesh lengths lined up as the soil piled on top of them will mash them tightly together. If that is the case, the number of staples we used for one bed (~500) was WAY overkill. But, with no reputable studies to rely upon, I could imagine a critter tunneling under the cloth which would allow the mesh to sag down and a gap of a half inch or better to become an entrance for them to destroy my tea plants. With all of this effort and expense, not to mention my ever increasing age, I REALLY did not want to have to re-dig and rebuild any of these beds!

First Grow Bed Mesh

2025-05-03

In order to line the protected bed, we need three lengths of four foot wide mesh. That 12 foot width will cover the bottom of the bed (<8') and each of the two foot deep sides. In order to leave a few inches of mesh above ground to, hopefully, prevent voles from traveling across the top into the beds, the actual width is a bit over seven feet. Now the three lengths of four foot wide mesh need to be 'sewn' together. My first idea was to have them draped over a metal pole which would allow me to get to both sides of the 'cloth' to bind it together,. That worked well for the first eight feet or so, but then I keppt getting bulges where the cloth did not line up nicely. Note that 1/4 inch hardware cloth is suggested by the wildlife departments to deter voles as they can squeeze through even 1/2 inch spaces. So the binding between the lengths of cloth need to be pretty tight as well.







As that was not working, at all, I decided to try just laying the center length in the bed and stapling the two side lengths to it. That did work MUCH better.





With no actual experience with this hardware determent method, and no resources found online, I was worried about the seams. So we used a LOT of fabric staples to bind the seams ... like every couple inches at most. It does seem reasonable to use just enough staples to keep the mesh lengths lined up as the soil piled on top of them will mash them tightly together. If that is the case, the number of staples we used for one bed (~500) was WAY overkill. But, with no reputable studies to rely upon, I could imagine a critter tunneling under the cloth which would allow the mesh to sag down and a gap of a half inch or better to become an entrance for them to destroy my tea plants. With all of this effort and expense, not to mention my ever increasing age, I REALLY did not want to have to re-dig and rebuild any of these beds!





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Merchants of Poison Report final 12/05/2022

(with 579 cited references)


Find out about: America's (now the World's) Favorite Poison By Far!


“In order to save glyphosate, the Monsanto corporation has undertaken an effort to destroy the United Nations’ cancer agency by any means possible.”[10]

... " just four companies — Bayer, Corteva (formerly DowDuPont), BASF and Syngenta/ChemChina — controlled 75 percent of plant breeding research, 60 percent of the commercial seed market, and 76 percent of global agrichemical sales in 2019."[78]



Just gotta' LOVE glyphosate, right?????

Yes, the second link is old news, but not forgotten and more importantly, as the first link shows, not remedied:

Monsanto / Bayer's Roundup Triggers Over 40 Plant Diseases and Endangers Human and Animal Health. Protect yourself and those you care about!

http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php    

http://www.NaturalNews.com/031138_Monsanto_Roundup.html

[10] Foucart, S. & Horel, S. (2019, April 7). Monsanto Papers. European Press Prize. https://www.europeanpressprize.com/article/monsanto-papers/

[78] ETC Group. (2019, April 06). New report: Putting the cartel before the horse…and farm, seeds, soil, peasants. https://www.etcgroup.org/content/new-report-putting-cartel-horse%E2%80%A6and-farm-seeds-soil-peasants

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Video
https://www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html

Just Say No To GMO by Michael Adams - Music
https://oregonTruffleTryst.com/_MEDIA/JustSayNoToGMO-192.mp3 Song Lyrics

Song by Mike Adams, with spoken lines from Jeffrey Smith

I’m lookin at the food that’s in the grocery store
They say it’s safe, everybody eat more.
On second thought, I don’t really know if it’s made with those GMOs

So I’m lookin for the non-GMO label ‘fore I bring it home and put it on my table
I wanna know it’s verified so I don’t
Harm myself with genetically modified

Uh-Oh
They don’t want you to know
All the poison they grow
The corporate profits they show from those GMO OH

Those Frankenseeds that they sow
They’re gonna hurt us we know
It’s time we told ‘em to go, say GMO NO!

I don’t want eat poison, I don’t want gene mutations at my dinner reservations
it’s a food abomination what they doin’ to this fast food nation
They take artificial gene combinations
inject them in seed variations
so they can grow their Frankenfood imitations
while the side effects cause medical patients

Keep their profits alive while they
spraying all the food with name brand herbicides
and all the while they’re spreadin’ their lies
Monsanto (Bayer now!) destroyin’ farmers lives
and the FDA keeps it all going
saying it’s safe even though they all know it’s just
poison stealing away your life, and that’s what you eat with genetically modified.

GMO safety huh that’s a corporate myth
if you don’t believe me listen to Jeffery Smith
He’s the man with plan gonna do what he can
To help us all get those GMOs banned
But we need you to lend a hand
take a stand against this food scam
It’s a mission for the health condition worldwide
We don’t wanna live genetically modified

Don’t eat food unless you know what’s in it
Don’t believe the propaganda cuz the press will spin it
Affects everybody, we all up in it
Stand up to Monsanto (Bayer now!), tell ‘em oh no you didn’t

Reject Frankenfoods in the store
demand honest labels so we can be informed
We have a natural right to know
What we buyin’ Just say no to GMO

Before our farms start dyin’
Just say no to GMO

Those corporate crooks are lyin’
Just say no to GMO

This time we’re not complyin’
Just say no to GMO

We’re just not buyin’ it
Just say no to GMO

Song and Lyrics © 2010 by Michael Adams, All Rights Reserved

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