Tulle: perfect summer crop cover!

By critterologist
July 13, 2023

Viruses in your vine crops? Beetles in your broccoli? Birds in the blueberries? Tulle could be the row cover you've been looking for.

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Aug 6, 2023 10:39 AM CST
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Name: Sally
central Maryland (Zone 7b)
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I may try this for alliums next year- the allium leaf miner has left pupae in almost every one of my softneck garlics and ruined some onions as well. I tried row cover but it's a little heavier and blocks some light.
Plant it and they will come.
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Jul 21, 2024 12:43 PM CST
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@sallyg I brought garlic from out of state to MD and it is now infested with the leaf miner. Have you had success with being able to clear the pest from existing stock to place in the tulle or did you get new clean stock? I'd be interested to know if it's possible to pick existing cloves clean or soak them or something to be able to use stock from the varieties I've collected over the years.
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Jul 21, 2024 2:58 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: Sally
central Maryland (Zone 7b)
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Overwinters Tender Plants Indoors Garden Procrastinator Charter ATP Member Hummingbirder Frogs and Toads Houseplants
Keeper of Poultry Vegetable Grower Region: Maryland Composter Native Plants and Wildflowers Organic Gardener
You can see the pupae on the surface of the cloves, in the skin layer, you should be able to inspect each clove and plant clean.
The miners already in the area will get to them unless you take precautions, though. I started with all clean cloves.
Plant it and they will come.
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