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  • From: jpike AT gloryroad.net
  • To: jpike AT gloryroad.net
  • Cc: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] crows
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 16:36:34 -0400 (EDT)

>> 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
>>
>> --
>> Pam Dawling
>>
>> Author of Sustainable Market Farming, Intensive Vegetable Production on
>> a
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> AFAK SQENL/AC
> DO you think visible fishing line would work?
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> Took your advice and put up thin electric wire stakes every 25 feet and
wove fishing line around and along 3 x 200 foot rows. I added survey
tape between stakes for visibility but noticed that even the fishing
line was more visible in the morning and evening when the hungry
monsters were lurking (which they did often )but they never ate a single
kernel !!!! Thank you and all the contributors >





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