Best place for used mesh netting (strong fleece) for covering carrots

[Vegfarmer]

Hi, as stated in title. After mesh for covering carrots/veg needs to be fine for carrot root fly, second hand would be fine. Approximately 3 acres. Anyone have any advice. Cheers

 

[renewablejohn]

I have given up with mesh and now use open top IBC's cut in half.

 

[Vegfarmer]

Sorry bit confused, I mean the fleece used to cover carrots itself (thought the stronger fleece was called mesh). Can’t see how I could use an ibc container. Cheers

 

[2wheels]

wondermesh? google it. i would think they have some used stuff kicking about.

 

[renewablejohn]

Sorry bit confused, I mean the fleece used to cover carrots itself (thought the stronger fleece was called mesh). Can’t see how I could use an ibc container. Cheers

Its not just one its hundreds of them. Easier than trying to stop mesh blowing away.

 

[Kidds]

Its not just one its hundreds of them. Easier than trying to stop mesh blowing away.

I try not to be rude to people but you really are on a completely different planet.
How the hell is arsing about with a few hundred IBC cut in half easier than stopping fleece blowing away?
If you had 2000 ibc and cut them in half and placed them all out with no gaps between them you still haven't covered one acre. This is about as idiotic as your idea to cover Australia with sprinklers to combat bushfires.

 

[renewablejohn]

I try not to be rude to people but you really are on a completely different planet.
How the hell is arsing about with a few hundred IBC cut in half easier than stopping fleece blowing away?
If you had 2000 ibc and cut them in half and placed them all out with no gaps between them you still haven't covered one acre. This is about as idiotic as your idea to cover Australia with sprinklers to combat bushfires.

Your the one who should get out more and open your mind. I suggest a trip to the glasshouses and market gardens in Holland where you might actually learn something about the efficient automatic growing of veg. You certainly wont find acres of mesh covering carrots the skill of carrot growing has moved on. I admit it wont be IBC's but thats all I had to copy there technology that was cheap enough for me to use. As for spinklers it was never a matter of covering Australia in them just using them as a tool instead of firemen loosing there lives. Thankfully a millionare had the same approach and successfully saved his estate and the adjacent town which suddenly shut up all the doubters on here obviously apart from you.

 

[Kidds]

I suggest a trip to the glasshouses and market gardens in Holland

And I suggest you read the question asked. The guy wants fleece for 3 acres and you suggest IBCs cut in half instead. Great for in your garden not for 3 acres though.

 

[renewablejohn]

And I suggest you read the question asked. The guy wants fleece for 3 acres and you suggest IBCs cut in half instead. Great for in your garden not for 3 acres though.

Which I did. so 3 acres is less than 15000 square yards so 150 yards by 100. so perimeter 500 yards if every IBC only 1yard (actually 1.2m) thats 250 containers (each container can be cut in two to form 2 barriers).

 

[Bogweevil]

Which I did. so 3 acres is less than 15000 square yards so 150 yards by 100. so perimeter 500 yards if every IBC only 1yard (actually 1.2m) thats 250 containers (each container can be cut in two to form 2 barriers).

Bumpy old ride with the drill over those IBCs though. And the hoeing, very tricky even with high clearance tractor. Harvest easy though, just tip the IBC out in front of the harvester. Some growers fill the containers with light weight growing media and send the IBC to supermarkets where public can pull their own carrots. No sniggering at the back please.

 

[Brisel]

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[Bogweevil]

Hi, as stated in title. After mesh for covering carrots/veg needs to be fine for carrot root fly, second hand would be fine. Approximately 3 acres. Anyone have any advice. Cheers

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[renewablejohn]

Bumpy old ride with the drill over those IBCs though. And the hoeing, very tricky even with high clearance tractor. Harvest easy though, just tip the IBC out in front of the harvester. Some growers fill the containers with light weight growing media and send the IBC to supermarkets where public can pull their own carrots. No sniggering at the back please.

Really and what hoeing do you intend doing with nets on. The whole point of a perimeter barrier is that the crop within the barrier requires no nets so can be harvested or cultivated without messing about with nets. But hey I will leave it to the experts on here and just laugh at the other thread of carrot farmers damaging there soil with there expensive equipment harvesting wet fields rather a store full of boxed carrots that just need to be harvested and processed on demand.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Really and what hoeing do you intend doing with nets on. The whole point of a perimeter barrier is that the crop within the barrier requires no nets so can be harvested or cultivated without messing about with nets. But hey I will leave it to the experts on here and just laugh at the other thread of carrot farmers damaging there soil with there expensive equipment harvesting wet fields rather a store full of boxed carrots that just need to be harvested and processed on demand.

How do the IBC's get into the shed? How are they harvested & how is the soil returned to the field.

To the OP buy new net to keep out insects, it will work out cheaper over 5 years. Worst purchase I ever made was secondhand net even thoug I got my money back, lost crop worth 3 times the cost of new net.

 

[renewablejohn]

How do the IBC's get into the shed? How are they harvested & how is the soil returned to the field.

To the OP buy new net to keep out insects, it will work out cheaper over 5 years. Worst purchase I ever made was secondhand net even thoug I got my money back, lost crop worth 3 times the cost of new net.

Sideloader forklift IBC's off field. Forklift with pallet rotator IBC onto static harvester with soil back into previous IBC then replanted with next crop transplants. IBC's transported back to field once transplants established.

 

[2wheels]

I try not to be rude to people but you really are on a completely different planet.
How the hell is arsing about with a few hundred IBC cut in half easier than stopping fleece blowing away?
If you had 2000 ibc and cut them in half and placed them all out with no gaps between them you still haven't covered one acre. This is about as idiotic as your idea to cover Australia with sprinklers to combat bushfires.

i've got him on ignore.

 

[Kidds]

i've got him on ignore.

I am pretty confident it was exactly that that shut his doubters up re the sprinklers in Oz.

 

[renewablejohn]

i've got him on ignore.

Good then at least you wont know I am still posting.