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Reverse Garbage! lol!!! Love that name.

I think hoophouses and coldframes keep four-legged critters out, and even two-legged winged critters... but bugs can still get in and then they're just as protected as the plants, so it pays to watch for signs of infestation. Now the advantage we have here where it freezes is that one can get a coldframe or hoophouse up and the plants growing in the very earliest spring (while it's still snowing) before the bugs hatch out. It might be a little more difficult for you if your winters are mild... but then, if your winters are mild you don't need the coldframe!

I know when I was gardening in the desert though, I often wished for a structure with shade cloth to protect my plants. What stunned me is that I need one here in Kansas, too... sheesh, full-service weather: we broil AND we freeze. *eyeroll*