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[Nathan Torgerson <nathantorgerson@yahoo.com>]

This year I'll try netting the cherry trees after petal drop, wrapping individual peaches with nylon footies, and continue to bag apples with clear plastic bags.

My squirrels have figured out the plastic bagging of the apple trees now and have started taking them...have to do something about that this coming year. I've had success in the past keeping them off of bird feeders by attaching the feeder to an electric fencer, I might try something like that for my apples.

 

I found it difficult to keep my whole peach tree netted for the whole season, the tree really grew last year and didn't like being contained, so I'm switching entirely to the nylon footies, which worked well last year.

 

I haven't had anything try to chew through tulle...yet.

 

The best place to get tulle that I've found is on ebay (108" widths).

Nate

Andover, MN

 

barbbhb@aol.com wrote:

Hi all! Per suggestions from this list, I now have bolts of tulle (thanks Nate!) and organza bags.  Please help me with the timing of wrapping dwarf cherries and peaches.

 

I know I wrap the whole cherry tree ( dwarf, so ok), but when? We have plum c. here in VA, zone 6b. After petal drop?

 

Peaches--should I wrap the whole tree (again dwarfs) or the individual fruit after thinning? Again, after petal drop? 

 

My biggest peach pests are squirrels (and a dumb rabbit occasionally)--would this affect the wrapping the whole tree or individual fruit decision? The squirrels chewed through the bird netting last year and I even have 2 sacrificial peach trees that I leave untouched for them. Greedy buggers.

 

Thanks for all of your help and wonderful suggestions!! Barbara Harrick

 

 

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