A Virtual Garden Tour of Cal Poly Pomona Garden

 CPP Virtual Tour Good Bugs - Bad Bugs

Students Prune Grape Vines on Garden Fence

 Students this week cut back the grapevine vines along the north fence of the garden in preparation for spring growth.

Types of pruning: Spur and Cane Basics

Students build PVC Bird Net Tops for Raised Garden Beds

This week students built PVC pipe bird nettops for the raised garden beds

Students Trying New Way to keep Chickens out of Raised Beds in Garden

 Last year we attempted to use wood pallets and Orange plastic fencing to keep the chickens out of the raised gardens. The problem was it also made it difficult for us humans to get into the raised planter areas as well.   This year we found a simple method of using PVC pipe in a crisscross manner to hold the bird netting and should be effective at keeping the chickens out of the garden!

This is the idea.