This is what I use:
It's a Fiskars garden knife, and I love it!
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This is what I use:
Yes! The panels have pockets in them for simple flat top screw heads to slip into. Lift up to release. My oldest bed is 6 years old with this arrangement and it still works great.Do the side panels on your tomato bed come off for access?
I started staking them last year after I read about wrapping the stalk from below the soil surface and up about a foot to deter borers, and the staking is part of the process. We have squash vine borers so bad here that I only get a few squash before all my vines die. Slicing the stalk to remove the borers is like shoveling against the tide, I won't use poison, and the one year I tried injecting BT it helped, but I got mediocre yields. So wrapping and staking the MAIN stalk, and pruning back the foliage is the way to go for me.My rattlesnake beans, butternut and zucchini squash seeds are coming up in spite of the cool weather. @fuzzi , nice looking peas and squash. Do your squash do better when trained to grow up stakes? I'm thinking about trying that with my zukes this year.
Last year I tried row covers. They got septoria and powdery mildew.I started staking them last year after I read about wrapping the stalk from below the soil surface and up about a foot to deter borers, and the staking is part of the process. We have squash vine borers so bad here that I only get a few squash before all my vines die. Slicing the stalk to remove the borers is like shoveling against the tide, I won't use poison, and the one year I tried injecting BT it helped, but I got mediocre yields. So wrapping and staking the MAIN stalk, and pruning back the foliage is the way to go for me.
I would experiment and see what happens! But that's just me. I've over wintered bunching onions a lot. A lot of my Thai recipes are best with the bulb part of the scallion so I like it when they get a lil rowdy after a winter.Speaking of onions... I have some bulb onions that didn't grow very big before the tops died. Would you pull them out or leave them in the ground and see if they grow more next year?
I do the same thing. Hasnt failed so far.I spray bug repellent and my pants cuffs and shoes before going into the infested areas