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[Lee Reich <garden@leereich.com>]

I built a walk-in cage for my 16 plants planted in a square block. The sides have permanent, heavy duty plastic netting with 18 inches high poultry netting at the bottom (rabbits like to chew through the plastic). The net is supported by locust posts joined at their tops by rebar. When the fruit is ripening, I drape a woven net over the whole top, supporting it at various places within the enclosure by temporary plastic piping and metal conduit posts topped with inverted plastic jars.

Lee Reich, PhD

http://leereich.com/

Books by Lee Reich:

The Pruning Book

Weedless Gardening

Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden

A Northeast Gardener's Year

On May 28, 2008, at 3:16 PM, Goodwill at Homefields Farm 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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