Popadome Crop Protection System (1.2m x 1.2m)
This award-winning Pomadome 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 Pomadome Crop Protection Frame and Covers system with copper strip along the baseto 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. 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
• Easy access zip with fold back netting either side
• Anchors securely to the ground with 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
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
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
I found the Popadome quick and easy to erect. I like the idea of the copper strip around the edge a very good idea. I can't comment on the performance as it is the first time I have used it and will only know at the end of the growing season.
Overall, this is a pretty good product and it even seems to stand up to our windy conditions. However, I had real difficulty with the poles. I ordered four domes. The end fastener of two of the 8 poles was missing and the elastic of another pole snapped as I was assembling the pole. But to give Harrod their due, they replaced all three immediately and all the domes are now doing their job in our raised beds. Pushing the poles through their "sleeves" is not particularly easy, but it is worth persevering and ensuring that you don't try to pull the poles through. Once constructed the domes appear to be sturdy - I haven't had them long enough to comment on slug control or how they withstand the elements.
I can't remember whether it's two or three winters, probably three, but this year I think I found the optimum combination. There are a few things I feel should be improved, the biggest being that these great tents do not fit either inside or outside 1m raised beds. I get two or three corners outside, and one in, to give the best tension around the edge of the bed. But that compromises the slug protection. The butterfly netting on its own through summer is perfect for keeping out cats, birds, pigeons and most butterflies. A few determined whites will squeeze through the netting if you've got brassicas inside, but it makes a quick check for eggs or caterpillars very much easier. The dragonflies do like to perch on the canes to sun themselves! Adding the insect mesh makes it pretty much impermeable to insects of all types. I tried the polythene cover both over the butterfly net on its own and over the fleece, but it makes the whole thing very prone to the slightest breeze lifting it all out. I tried putting the stretchy bird netting over both my metre-square beds to help keep the popadome covers on, but with a stiff breeze, they still go. Strong winds pull the pegs out very easily. My best solution this very windy winter was to throw out the polythene cover, and use the insect mesh over the fleece, pegging them with a different set of pegs from the popadome itself. If gales are forecast, add the fruit nettings too! But for crop protection in a raised bed, they are worth the effort. As a side benefit, if you have rats in your garden, and they come up in the beds, you can put 'special rat food' down under the popadome without fear of the birds getting to it. Hope that helps.
What The Press Say
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.
Prepare your plot - Protect crops against the cold weather and prepare for next season with these products
Popadome - The New Plant Protector - Insect mesh netting is a must for the vegetable garden throughout the growing year, but for winter protection a cloche or fleece is the answer. Popadome base net domes have three fitted accessory covers - fleece, cloche and fine insect mesh netting in two sizes. Each has an access zip in the cover which fits over the frame and is held into the ground with the same fixings pegs.
