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[Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hello,

I have seen crop covers used on ginger.  Acres and acres of it.  It must
be cheap, but it does reduce sun, as this plant requires less intense sun.

Vineyards use crop cover as well for birds.

Both good sources.

Later,
Tom

Heron Breen wrote:
> 200406070206.i5726hI09454@atmapp02.siteprotect.com">
> Hello there, interestingly, I have seen a very large arbor in Maine, with season 
> round netting or screening. I will inquire of its construction and get back to 
> you. This set-up is the size of a good-sized greenhouse, looking something like a 
> large turkey pen. 
> Heron Breen
> On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:47 , Louisa Rogoff Thompson <louisagardener@earthlink.net> 
> sent:
>
> > In response to:
> >
> > From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of daniel strum
> > Sent: Wed 6/2/2004 4:53 PM
> > To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> > Cc: danstrum@hotmail.com
> > Subject: [NAFEX] netting for blueberry protection
> >
> >
> > I am living in Virginia Beach, VA. and am planning an arbor with some type of 
> netting to keep the birds out of the blueberries.  The arbor is quit large 20' x 
> 35' and 7' tall. I am wanting to put up some sturdy (year around) netting.  I am 
> not too sure about the right size for netting.  There is a rubber coated chicken 
> wire with a 1" hexagon pattern that would be good for my structure, but the holes 
> look too large.  Any suggestions or experiences about this wire product or 
> alternatives would be appreciated.
> > Dan,
> >
> > It really depends on the size of the fruit-eating birds in your neighborhood.  I 
> started with bird netting but found that the birds perched on it and tore through 
> it.  Squirrels, too.  I found a couple of chipmunks strangled in it.  Eventually I 
> stapled half inch galvanized hardware cloth to wood frames.  The mockingbirds and 
> catbirds that had begun to regard my blueberries as theirs would have easily 
> pushed through 1" chicken wire.
> > I only used these panels during the fruiting season, and since I had different 
> cultivars ripening in sequence, I was able to shift them from one plant to - not 
> the next, which had fruit already ripening while the previous plant had ripe 
> fruit - but to the one which ripened after that.  
> > I never had trouble with animals browsing the stems, so I didn't need year 'round 
> protection.  But the sides were removable, the squirrels would watch me remove 
> them to harvest, and within a couple of weeks they would figure out how to get 
> in.  Your permanent cage would solve that problem.  
> > Make sure you do something to keep animals from burrowing underneath.  Laying 
> chicken wire flat on the ground, right up to the edge, and covered with mulch, 
> works very well.  The critters can't dig through the wire and never try to back up 
> to find the edge.
> > Louisa Thompson
> > Zone 7
> >
> >
> >
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