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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Bird Control in Fruit Trees
  • Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:32:18 -0400

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 13:07:43 -0500, you wrote:

>I've heard of various methods of bird control in the orchard - propane noise
>makers, shinny objects, fake owls and snakes, and bird netting.
>
>Guess I'm looking at netting, but I need some advice from some of you who
>have "been there and done that". How's the best way to put the netting up
>and what's a good source of netting?
>

Are you sure that birds are damaging your fruit? Unless you
have cherry trees, I wonder if you really need to do
anything about birds? (This is not a rhetorical question, I
really don't the answer and would like to.)

Pat
--
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry




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