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Dear Lee Valley,
I just wanted write and tell you why we like your shade cloth
so much. In hopes of solving the cabbage-moth* problem, my
mother sewed a tent using your shade cloth. My husband built
a frame for the tent using 2 x 4s, 2 x 2s and flexible ABS
pipe. The tent was such a success that we built two more.
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frame covered with shade cloth keeps cabbage moths from
damaging the vegetables growing inside. |
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We
now can grow vegetables from the cabbage family without
the pesky cabbage moths laying their eggs on the plants
and having the subsequent larvae destroy them. We also
get to enjoy delicious vegetables without finding the
nasty little worms hiding in the florets of the broccoli
and cauliflower.
M.G.
Leduc, Alberta
*Editor's
Note: The small white or cabbage white (Pieris rapae)
species of butterfly is commonly called a cabbage moth
in North America.
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