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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

Hi mIEKAL,

I'm wondering if you would share what you are using for 'tubing' around your 
trees???

I've been using hardware cloth (1/4" x 1/4") tubes about 18" height x 6" 
diameter and it is very effective and a great place to put tree labels.  But 
hardware cloth is very expensive and I'm sure it will rust off to 
ineffectiveness at some point. I've found one tree that had a gap where the 
cloth overlapped (sometimes the cloth kinks a bit when I twist it into the 
ground and I obviously didn't catch that one) and a mouse moved in, made a 
house for the winter and ate my Giant Nanking Cherry from T&T Seeds, 
Manitoba.  This year with the feet and feet of snow we had, they got over the 
tops for the first time ever and ate off a plum and an apple.  I should have 
been stomping down the snow, but by the time I realized I needed too, the 
snow was hip deep and I couldn't!

I know that the commercial guys use some kind of plastic tubing, but I'm not 
sure what.

Sarah 
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Mon, 5/23/11, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Sawdust Mulching
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Received: Monday, May 23, 2011, 12:24 PM

> I've been spending the last week tubing every last prunus
> in the ground.

> ~mIEKAL