Thank u so much for the info. I’m in Fort Collins, Colorado and the hail has been the size of tennis and ping pong balls for the last few years. I’m new and plan on growing cherry tomatoes and basil for my first year
In Utah and this video helped a lot. We always get 1-2 wack hail storms well into the summer and I can only run out to my garden and cover so many plants in time with buckets, old planters etc. not to mention if the storms roll in once like say tomato plants are already surpassing their cages.
Great idea! I just put steel window screens into totes, the plants love it. Also I think that I can make a greenhouse effect by putting plastic between two sceens. Your garden looks great, happy harvesting from Falcon Colorado.
How do you secure the hoops to the ground(?). Also curious if you dig post holes or just attached them to the raised bed. Also in Colorado and as I’m sure you know, we get lots of wind. Not sure how strong I need to make my raised beds, etc.
Thanks for reaching out. I did a video on how I constructed this, which answers all of those questions and more: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d5co-I7W0yI.htmlsi=yza0WrtFgkGWcpn3 It is holding up GREAT. Even better than I would have expected, through years of our crazy weather, including that crazy windstorm you and I just had! :)
@@TheIntegratedGarden I’m on year three with back to eden style gardening. I met Paul last September when we visit WA :) It was incredible. I’ll look into the videos! I’ve been wondering about others in colorado using this method. Do you find that your garden takes more time to mature? I get huge, green plants, but not much fruit. I’ve almost given myself over to growing flowers because it seems like I put more money into plants than I get out of it in food... and then of course there’s the hail storms. It’s taken my garden out there out of the years. Does the hardware cloth work when the hail is pea sized?
@@thislittleweirdgirl332 There are many factors that can possibly come into play, but Colorado IS a very hostile climate for sure. With that said, God has blessed us with great yield. It DID take a few years to really get more nutrient rich and mature. Manure helps in aiding that process amazingly. Hard to underscore that enough. Feel free to come visit us sometime, too! We can probably troubleshoot quite a bit more. The hardware cloth I find works on any size hail. We really should have it on more parts of the garden, but currently we just have it on one are where we grow plants (like tomatoes and peppers) that could not bounce back at all from a hail storm like some others can.
