In the background you can see the tulle covering my raised bed of greens. I got tired of losing everything to cabbage moths, and this has worked like a charm. The hoops are 4' rebar with 10' PVC pipes simply bent over and slipped over the rebar. I had to cut nothing but the tulle--this frame was set up easily in about 10 minutes. The tension from the arced PVC holds the height of the hoops as high or low as you want them. They don't have to be secured at all. (In the foreground you can see the rebar/PVC setup more clearly, but the cover is bird netting.) Then I just draped the tulle, cut an extra piece to cover the top and pinned it in place with straight pins, anchored the bottom with rocks and made sure there were no gaps anywhere for the flying buggers to slip through, and it was all good. I've been enjoying the best greens ever! Until now I'd never heard of anyone else using tulle, so I love this article! I'm a costumer by trade, and it just seemed like the obvious solution to me.

Your cover is very neat and tidy! I will sew some lengths together for my cucumber trellis next year. Using a couple of overlapping layers on each side works, but if I had a wide joined piece I could peg it out a few inches from the trellis on each side and give the leaves and vines more space.

After reading the suggestion of using tulle as a row cover in one of the forums several weeks ago, I ordered some from eBay and put in a row of okra seeds. I have several rabbits who eat any and all seedlings, so I was delaying planting the okra until I could figure out how to protect the seedlings. I the past, I have put up a 2-foot chicken wire fence, but that is work to put it up and take it down, and I was looking for a faster solution. I planted the seeds, then pounded 2-foot wood stakes down the center of the row. I loosely draped the tulle over the stakes, and weighted it on the sides with metal fence posts. Done! So far, so good. The tulle is holding up, the rain/watering goes right through, plenty of sunlight, and best of all, the rabbits haven't bothered the seedlings. When the plants start pushing up on the tulle, I'll take it off since the rabbits don't seem to bother with tough mature stalks. By the way, I picked a bright pink color for the tulle deliberately so that it did not "blend in." It is a reminder to me to not step on the seedlings, and not trip on the fence posts.

Even the bright pink is less noticeable than stark white spun poly row cover. For the most part I've noticed the same thing, that rabbits will mow down seedlings but don't bother older plants. But this year I lost several peppers and cucumbers that were a good 10" tall. It's been a banner year for the rabbit population in my yard. The local hawks are fat & sassy!