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  • From: Pam Twin Oaks <pam AT twinoaks.org>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] crows
  • Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 11:54:24 -0400

We sow our sweet corn by hand and to keep us planting in straight lines we put up ropes on stakes first. We leave the ropes up for 2 or 3 weeks and that keeps the crows away. Stakes in the ground every 50-90 feet, ropes about 9" above the soil. Works well.
Good luck. Pam

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Pam Dawling
 
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