Popadome Crop Protection System (1.2m x 1.2m)
This award-winning Popadome Crop Protection Frame and Covers system with copper strip along the base to deter slugs and snails, presents an all-in-one solution for protecting your fruit and vegetables from the elements and garden pests.
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This award-winning Popadome Crop Protection Frame and Covers system with copper strip along the base to deter slugs and snails, presents an all-in-one solution for protecting your fruit and vegetables from the elements and garden pests.
The innovative frame offers protection throughout the year with the addition of a choice of Fleece, Polyethylene and Insect Mesh Covers. Suitable for both gardens and allotments, it is ideal for protecting everything from newly seeded lawns to full grown plants. Can be used either singly or in multiple arrangements for larger areas. The Popadome Crop Protection Frame measures 1.2m wide x 1.2m deep and measures 1.2m high.
Also available the New Popadome Crop Protection Tunnel great for protecting everything from newly seeded lawns to full grown plants.
Popadome Frame and Butterfly Netting product features:
- Easily assembled using fibreglass poles
- Very lightweight and easy to put in place and relocate
- Made from UV treated materials
- Measures 1.2m Wide x 1.2m Deep x 1.2m High
- Easy access zip with fold back netting either side
- Anchors securely to the ground with 13 x 8″ pegs included
- A sewn copper strip along the base line of all four sides deters slugs and snails
- Fine black butterfly netting (10mm) blocks access to birds and butterflies and other small animals
- Coarse enough netting to allow access for pollinating insects
- Comes in handy carry case for easy and safe storage when not required
- Popadome Frames weigh just over 1kg
Fleece Cover Only (Out of Stock until June)
This heavy duty fleece cover is light enough to be placed easily over your Popadome Frame and protects your plants against frost and stops wind, hail, birds and insects damaging your plants. Made from strong spun bonded 60gsm permeable fleece which is tear resistant and UV stabilised for long life, it will help to warm up the soil for earlier harvesting of crops and protects against freezing temperatures. A zipper is incorporated in the design which lines up with the main Popadome Frame zipper, ensuring easy access to the protected growing area.
Polyethylene Cloche Cover Only (Out of Stock until June)
Protect young seedlings and established plants from frost with the addition of a heavy duty Polyethylene Cover which fits snugly on top of the Popadome Frame (above) and acts as a mini greenhouse or cloche to keep the plants in a warmer environment. Made from UV stabilised heavy duty polyethylene, it incorporates a zipper in the design which lines up with the main Popadome Frame zipper, ensuring easy access to the protected growing area.
Insect Mesh Cover Only
A superb solution for the protection of your plants from smaller flying insects, this insect mesh netting cover fits easily over the top of the Popadome Frame (above). The fine 50gsm insect netting is made from 1mm mesh and stops pests such as carrot fly and cabbage root fly from damaging your plants. A zipper is incorporated in the design which lines up with the main Popadome Frame zipper, ensuring easy access to the protected growing area.
Product Reviews
its a bit of a bind to access all of the area where we put our dome so we left it up over winter. like a couple of others have mentioned the netting and poles are still perfect even the skirt is fine but the channels that the poles sit in are suddenly disintegrating. (it may not have been its first winter) But as the material is UV protected I was hoping it would be fine. I would like to replace the netting. I can understand what you say about changes but maybe then you should say - dont leave them up in winter like the nets for the cages? I dont mind buying a new one its just a waste of the poles that hurts. But I have to admit that I might be better doing a solid aluminium one for the area, except that I will have to make it up as its a very small patch, even the 1.2 sq is a little bit too big, paying bespoke for a small area seems ott.
As I posted an extensive review in 2018, I thought I'd update on longevity. The butterfly netting got a couple of rips in it last summer near the zip top. Then this winter the material on the binding where the frame goes through finally gave up the ghost. So five years or six years out there in all weather, in sunny and windy Norfolk. I echo the request for butterfly netting availability. The frames are still in vgc.
I’ve just received my third popadome, so obviously I think they are excellent. But I’d like to echo Stephen Appleby’s recent comment. The fabric tubes on my original dome’s butterfly net have disintegrated over the years, so I have to use clips to hold the net in place. Why not offer customers the chance to buy replacement netting?
Many thanks for your comments which we greatly appreciate and have been passed onto our R & D Dept to investigate this further. However they are keen to ensure that any re-design does not add additional charges to the current cost effective crop protection solution.
What The Press Say
Grow Your OwnMarch 2019
GYO must-haves
This protection system offers an all-in-one solution to protecting your crops. Available in three sizes, with anchors and base copper strip, the frames come complete with butterfly netting or swap for the optional insect mesh, polyethylene or fleece cover.
Kitchen GardenFebruary 2018
What to Buy - Plastic Greenhouses - Top Pick
This comes with glass fibre poles, an easy access zip and a copper strip along the base to deter slugs and snails. The netting allows access for pollinating insects. A plastic cover can be bought separately. Top Pick: Best for Versatility. This is a good product in itself for keeping out birds and butterflies, but if you add the polythene cover it is an effective mini-greenhouse too.
