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  • From: Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: breen@fedcoseeds.com, North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Blueberry cages
  • Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 11:18:00 -0400

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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