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  • From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] tulle. organza spring's coming!
  • Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:49:11 -0600

One year I had redwing blackbirds get into my ripening field corn, so I took masking tape and taped the tips closed.  Didn't take long to peck through the tape, so I got out my bag of old and mismatched socks and pulled them down over the ears.  That worked. 
    Personally, I think that with mammals they are going to smell the fruit, and there's no reason a rodent can't chew through any fabric they want.  But it might slow them down considerably.  I suppose the advantage tulle would have over a sock is that it won't hold water after a rain.  But it might be worth trying.  Has anyone tried old stockings for bug control?  I think codling moths lay their eggs pretty early, but seems like you could do a whole branch and keep them from getting at the ends of the apples.  It might be easier than netting a whole tree.  You might be able to leave them on all season, or take them off during the June drop, so that the ones that fall would be ready to fall anyone.  Also, the June dropped fruit would probably make troulbe and increase rotting if left inside.  Actually, since so many fruits need thinning, it wouldn't be such a bad idea to have some knocked off.  Oh, I suppose a pair of scissors would remove the stocking without disturbing anything.  I think I may try this myself.  (Have to get some more fashionable friends to save me old stockings.)  Curculio owuld not be physically stopped from laying eggs, but they say that the texture feels wrong to them when you use Surround, so maybe they would keep searching for something that felt like a peach or a plum.    Donna



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