Outdoor Enclosure - Moveable, Lightweight Etc

[shellyshelly]

Hi All,

Our tortoise has an indoor enclosure. In hot weather she enjoys being outside.

We have a small back garden, with no room for a permanent enclosure. If we are also outside, we sometimes allow her to roam freely.
We also have a frame made out of deck boards, with metal mesh on the top. it can be moved around to follow the sun & stored vertically at the end of the garden.
But it is heavy to move.

We have been looking at some alternative approaches:

Buy Modular Fruit Cages with Bird Net - 0.625m H | GardenSkill

Modular fruit cage kits with build-a-balls, tubes, bird netting & pegs to build your own fruit cage. Protect plants. Grow strawberries, salads, brassicas & more

www.gardenskill.com

This is very flexible, but she would easily be able to escape & other animals get in. We use some deck boards around the sides, but seems like we might as well carry on with current solution if thats the case.

Giant Pop Up Fruit Cage Plant Cover - 2m x 1.35m H | GardenSkill

Large plant protection fruit cage for blueberries, gooseberries, cabbages, sprouts & brassicas. 4mm mesh butterfly netting plant cover stops birds & cabbage whites

www.gardenskill.com

These look more secure, but less flexible. The mesh is quite fine, so I wonder if it will block out too much sun?

Does anyone use anything like the above, or have any other suggestions?

Thanks

 

[wellington]

Try puttung wheels on the one you use at one end so you can lift one end and wheel it to wherever
The two you posted wouldn't be good in my opinion.
You could also look for the plastic type garden beds. They would probably work and not heavy.

 

[shellyshelly]

thanks for your reply.

may I ask what make you think they wouldn't be good?

I did also look at the plastic sides, but I'd still nees something to place over the top (mesh or similar): https://www.gardenskill.com/webshop...s/build-a-bed-150mm-raised-bed-various-sizes/

 

[shellyshelly]

I'm still trying to come up with a better solution, but everything I think of has a disadvantage!

Found a few examples of a fruit cage type of enclosure, not sure the first one looks very strong, but the second one looks ok.

1/2" hardware cloth seems sensible rather than bird netting.

 

[Tinytony]

Hi All,

Our tortoise has an indoor enclosure. In hot weather she enjoys being outside.

We have a small back garden, with no room for a permanent enclosure. If we are also outside, we sometimes allow her to roam freely.
We also have a frame made out of deck boards, with metal mesh on the top. it can be moved around to follow the sun & stored vertically at the end of the garden.
But it is heavy to move.

We have been looking at some alternative approaches:

Buy Modular Fruit Cages with Bird Net - 0.625m H | GardenSkill

Modular fruit cage kits with build-a-balls, tubes, bird netting & pegs to build your own fruit cage. Protect plants. Grow strawberries, salads, brassicas & more

www.gardenskill.com

This is very flexible, but she would easily be able to escape & other animals get in. We use some deck boards around the sides, but seems like we might as well carry on with current solution if thats the case.

Giant Pop Up Fruit Cage Plant Cover - 2m x 1.35m H | GardenSkill

Large plant protection fruit cage for blueberries, gooseberries, cabbages, sprouts & brassicas. 4mm mesh butterfly netting plant cover stops birds & cabbage whites

www.gardenskill.com

These look more secure, but less flexible. The mesh is quite fine, so I wonder if it will block out too much sun?

Does anyone use anything like the above, or have any other suggestions?

Thanks

I live in the uk also, and don’t have much garden space to build a large enclosure… I have just bought this one for my Russian, they have the lid over so your baby will be safe if your not outside watching. But my tortoise is only 3 so he’s small.