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  • From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Late grapes
  • Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:22:25 -0600


Where do you buy disposable netting for grapes? I'd like to get some, too,
as most of my grape crop gets eaten by the critters.


Well, I don't know. But I thought I'd do an Internet search for it next year, though I don't know if it would be any cheaper.

I bought a case of Nixalite YardTek netting (http://www.nixalite.com/YardTekGardenNet.aspx) early this year, since I figured I'd need it eventually (most of my fruit trees are too young right now). And it worked great to keep the birds away from my three grapevines.

However, the birds started pecking at my grapes long before they started to ripen, while they were still green and hard, in fact. And no amount of scare items (fake owls, strips of foil, etc.) did anything at all. The netting worked, but I had to put it up early, and the vines grew through it and wrapped tendrils around it, so there was just no way to remove it afterwards. Well, maybe I could have left it on until spring, then tried to prune the vines and untangle the net later, but that didn't sound too appealing.

With shipping, the netting cost me about $8 per vine (it looks cheaper than that now - apparently it's on sale). I'd certainly prefer to use it more than once, but I don't know if disposable netting is available and cheaper. And I don't think I'd get any grapes at all without it. I certainly didn't in 2006 (my first year with grapes).

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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