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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

I'm using Clipper tubes which are typically sold for first year grapes.
They come in different lengths but I use mostly 24" & 32".  Since they are
one piece of plastic that wraps, they are easy to take off & put back on,
you don't have to cut the tubes to get them off.  Plus they end up being a
lot cheaper than other kinds of tree tubes.  I get mine from here, very good
prompt service & customer service.

http://www.mdtgrow.com/

I've tubed about 600 trees & vines in the last 3 weeks....


~mIEKAL



On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Sarah Kehler Ewing 
<skkewing@yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> 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
>
>