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[Del Stubbs <northernlights2n@yahoo.com>]

I just came in from taking down last years experiment in a temporary racoon 
fence to
protect our grapes. It worked 100%. over a 50' row. Farm stores sell these 
inexpensive
short 3.5'?  rebar posts & elec wire connectors. Elec wire is pretty 
inexpensive too. I
put 5 rows of wire 4" apart starting 3" off the weed whipped bare ground. 
their tender
feet just don't like electricity. The year before all the grapes we got after 
one nights'
raid - was piles of purple in the grass.  No idea how big an army of racoons 
it took to
eat hundreds of bunches, Del

Del Stubbs  http://www.pinewoodforge.com   zone 3   N. MN


       
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