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- From: Karen Sutherland & Roots Farm <rootsfarm AT marpin.dm>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] bird netting & Hortonova
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:31:44 -0400
Title: Karen Sutherland
Can anyone recommend a good source for bird netting? I need no bigger
than 1/2-3/4" openings as we have some teeny bird pests and hopefully,
a net that is wider than 12-14' and long. I've tried various plastic
nettings but they don't hold up under our sun, whereas an old nylon
fruit tree net that I used to cover plum and blueberries 10+ years in
Mass. is still going strong after 5+ years use in tropical conditions
(except for the places where I had to cut the net to free trapped (and
very hostile) boas). I believe I had purchased that net from
Mellinger's which seems to be out of the INet business. Without
netting here it is impossible to bring in a crop of most any fruit,
including tomatoes, peppers, papaya, oranges, etc. I have used Hortonova here for trellising, but again it doesn't last much more than a season, whereas the nylon trellis nettings just keep on going and are strong enough to support massive bean vines, cukes, tomatoes, etc. Thanks and Best wishes to all, Karen --
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[Market-farming] bird netting & Hortonova,
Karen Sutherland & Roots Farm, 07/17/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] bird netting & Hortonova, maury sheets, 07/17/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] bird netting & Hortonova, Bill Shoemaker, 07/18/2007
- Re: [Market-farming] bird netting & Hortonova, Pat Meadows, 07/18/2007
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