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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

Jim in Menomonie wrote:

"a cage over the blueberries, 6 feet tall, 5 feet wide, and 24 feet long, 
for 7 bushes"


Hmmm.... I'll have to think about this in the fall or winter instead of at 
the last minute every year.  I have rabbiteyes, which are not nearly as well 
behaved as northern blueberries.   They can supposedly grow to nearly 20 ft 
tall, though of course that wouldn't be very convenient for picking.  They 
have some branches above head level already, we pull them down to pick. 
Last year we ate all we wanted and froze all we wanted, but the birds 
definitely got their share.  I might want to cage some of the "southern 
highbush" when they finally start cropping.  Years of drought have rather 
slowed their growth.    Donna