Measured for holes in the cloth for the new bed. Made fairly large holes to accomodate the in-place tomatoes and dropped the cloth right over them. Easy, but the holes are quite large. For the old bed I just pinned the cloth in place right over the plants, then cut small holes and eased the plants thru. Much more satisfactory. Cut out long sections over the carrots.
Not sure how I feel about having all the water for my vegetables filtered thru plastic mesh. In the end, I may decide to replace it with some sort of organic mulch.
Attached the trellis poles a couple inches behind each pair of tomato plants. Drilled holes at 12-inch spacing up the poles to stretch cord across as the plants grow. I'm using cotton cording salvaged from a much-loved but now defunct hammock.
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