My pic of a tomato frame with netting

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A concrete bunny rabbit keeps a watchful eye over my tomatoes. I took this pic after finishing covering the framework of my tomatoes in one of my tiny gardens. Using kite string and bird netting I was able to cover the whole area but leave some space underneath to get at weeding. The frame is made of the upper canopy top of a discarded lawn swing and two mop handles and plenty of kite string to hold it all together. This pic was taken on May 15th, Sunday, 2016 at about 3:30 PM Central Time. The thing is, the netting is almost invisible but it is there and it will prevent the birds from pecking at the plants underneath. The net is above the plant far enough so as not to limit the full growth of the tomato plants. I used care in selecting my tomato plants. I went to The Home Depot to buy these. They were selected because they are specially resistant to the extreme hot temperatures of a Texas summer. They will be in almost direct sunlight at least 4 hours every day and this is the exact location I planted several bell peppers last year. Crossing my fingers that this will work. I have to remember to water the tomatoes every 2 to 3 days in spite of all the rain recently. The tomato is a thirsty plant. One small cucumber is at the right hand corner and it seems to be blooming yellow flowers. I put a second cucumber plant in a pot and placed it on our front porch to see which of these two plants does the best or the worst as the case may be. The one on the porch will be in indirect sunlight on the north side of the house whereas the other cucumber plant will be in lots of direct sunlight, in the ground, beside the 3 tomato plants, underneath the bird netting under the makeshift frame I put together with left over metal pipes and mop handles and a little bit of cotton string. Also, I had to reduce the image size and it's resolution over 10 times than it's original size to post it here. The netting is impossible to see in this pic. But in a way that is a good thing because it would look even more ugly if it were visible. Perhaps if I had used white fish netting instead the netting would have been visible in the photograph. In any case it's more the idea behind using netting because it is under 10 dollars from Amazon and can be used over and over unless you have to cut it up into three separated pieces like I did just to make it fit properly.