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Omelet[_7_]

In article >,
(Lass Chance_2) wrote:

> For grubs, cabbage worms and most oher crawlie or flying critters, Try
> buying a "floating row cover" and covering your cabbage (or any other
> plant that does not require bee polination). The row covers are made of
> some kind of very light, white material that lets rain and sunshine
> thru...but NOT crawlie or flying pests.
> If you treat them gently, you can use them season after season.
>
> You put the row covers over the bed immediately after planting, leaving
> enough 'slack" so the plant can get tall without pressing against the
> material of the row cover. Make or buy "pins" (bent coat hanger wire) to
> hold the row covers down.
> Works great for chard, spinach, (any kind of greens), cabbage,
> B.sprouts.
>
> Obviously, not good for tomatoes or squash or any plant that flowers and
> has to be bee pollinated.
>
> Lass

You've seconded the nomination. I've never tried those.

I presume that'll work for chard too.
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