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["Erdman, James" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>]

We started out putting netting directly on the trees,  but in a couple of  weeks branches had grown into the netting and it was almost impossible to remove the netting without damaging it and the tree.   Also, the blankety-blank robins still got lots of cherries.

Putting it on and taking it off were both more difficult, and the netting needed lots of repairs.

Jim

 

 

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Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 7:08 AM
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Subject: [NAFEX] {NAFEX] varmints and netting

 

If you put the netting right on the cherry trees, it pulls the branches down so they don't grow up. This really helps keep the trees shorter and rounder. It only takes a few weeks to freeze the branchs in the down position. The only problem we have had with this is crows will land on the top and pick cherries through the net, but they cannot reach very far down (but they have broken some branches).

 

Eric White

Plum Hill Farm

Vermont