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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

I grow short blueberries, but here's what I do:

I put fenceposts around my row of blueberries.  At the bottom I have one 
foot of hardware cloth, to keep chimunks and birds from getting through 
(more on that later) and I have a second foot of chickenwire to keep 
rabbits from eating the buds in the winter.  It's easy to step/reach over 
my 2-foot tall fence to get in to weed, fertilize, mulch, or whatever.

Only when the blueberries are ripening and until they9e been picked, I toss 
some plastic bird netting over the fence-posts.  It drapes to below the top 
of the hardware cloth.  This keeps out the birds and most of the chipmunks, 
and I can lift it aside to pick.  I used to drape the bird netting to the 
ground, but critters would try to get underneath it, and I had to remove a 
lot of dead junkos and chipmunks from the netting.  They don't get tangled 
in the more solid and small-meshed hardware cloth.
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Ginda

...... Original Message .......
On Wed, 28 May 2008 15:16:22 -0400 Goodwill at Homefields Farm 
<sbreneman@yourgoodwill.org> wrote:
>we draped bird netting over our three 160 foot rows of bushes last year 
>but the bushes grew into the netting, so I'm thinking that we need some 
>kind of hoops or trellis to support the netting.  I'm curious what other 
>people do?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Scott
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