texaskitty111 said:Glad you posted all your clever ideas, @pod. I was going to let this thread die out as i was the only one posting.

You have good ideas, but the dead or dying thread disease is spreading on this forum so Keep-On-Truckin.

Sadly so... reading back through this thread I notice that many of the folks are no longer posting here. Facebook is just not my speed.

Cool thread, thanks for the bump.

Great ideas here. I also have chickens and liked the deck ladder/chicken grazing bed idea.

Scraps of frost cloth and pipe supports?

I tried for 2 years to use shade cloth over my tomatoes, first white, then black. It actually made things worse. I got 1 tomato this year. Anyway, I held them up with 20' PVC pipes.
So........ this is one of my 3 papaya plants I grew from seed this spring.



It is too cold winters here in TX to grow papayas , so, I've put PVC pipes and frost cloth all around it



and the little scraps on top




and, heat pads on the ground. The front can easily be closed if it is going to be under 40° at night. I am trying to keep it alive over winter as it takes almost a year to ripen the fruit. Anyone have some more ideas?