I tried this idea last year and had great success. I had lots of eggplants but bugs and worms kept attacking them. So I purchased cheap knee high panty hose from Wal-Mart for less than $.50 per pair. They come in a little plastic type egg. It was well worth the purchase to save my veggies.
I have 3 watermelons growing right now and want to keep them protected so I have covered them with the knee highs. Can’t wait to see how they do.
Great tip. I will try it. I have a mystery melon growing with a couple a good size melons on it. Something started to attack the leaves but the fruit is still perfect.
That is a neat tip – though I have never had anything attack my watermelons before (except the dog).
Haha. In Florida all kinds of nasty boring things,especially on my eggplant last year.
Unfortunately here in south Florida, they destroyed the vines so the fruit didn’t fully develop.
Not fun!!! I had LOTS of leaf footed bugs last spring that tried to destroy all my tomatoes. I have used tulle to cover plants before. The bees can’t get in to pollinate but if you have fruit already its worth it. JoAnns has it on sale a lot.