NEWS FLASH- we have negotiated better prices for the supply of the garden frames and have passed these onto you. Some frames have been permaently reduced by $20/frame.

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Benefits

• Helps to increase your growing season and protect your vegetables
• Soil warming
  • Pre warming = early germination and growth
  • Creates a heat sink that will release heat during the night
  • Early removal of weeds
• Weather protection
  • Provides shelter from frost, snow, high winds, heavy rain
  • Crops more protected = better growth
  • Winter crops e.g spinach = less mud splashed, more tender
  • Increased ease of growth in winter as vegetables more protected
• Forwarding crops
  • Helps vegetables to reach maturity/fruiting time earlier
  • Aids early root growth and help promotes flowering and ripening
  • Helps to stagger harvesting time
• Growing season extended
  • Warmer and protected environment = plants encouraged to grow
  • Germination starts sooner and is extended longer
• Pest protection
  • Easy-Cloche = first line of defence for seedlings
  • Protects them from weather, slugs, rodents and birds
  • Pest control methods easier to control and more effective
  • Organic pellets, beer traps, bran, copper wires etc more protected = not affected by wind and rain
• Hardening off
  • Plants usually need 2 – 6 weeks to harden off before being placed in final growing position = time decreased
  • Helps to acclimatize plants quicker
  • Protects plants from frost
  • Greater control of hardening off period
• Blanching and sun protection
  • Blanched crops e.g endives covered = bitterness reduced
  • Create dappled shade = splatter mud on easy cloche or whitewash underside
• Successional sowing
  • Sow a row of seeds, cover and once germinated extend row with more sowing and move easy cloche along
  • Successional sowing helps to avoid glut of crops
• Nursery bed
  • Raise seedlings and plants before being transferred to final growing position
  • Aids overwintering small plants ready to be planted in the following Spring
• Skin set of Crops
  • Easy cloche helps to set and harden skins of Root crops after harvesting to ensure good storage