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[Dan Nave <nave1@comcast.net>]

Thanks for the tips Chris.  I'm also going to keep the EMT conduit frame and netting in mind for 
when my Nanking and Carmine Jewel Cherries get big enough to produce fruit.

This last year was hard on the 1 year old Nanking Cherries as they are right next to the driveway, 
and what with snow-blowing the driveway onto them and the heavy snow we got this year there was a  
lot of breakage of the branches, as well as rabbits eating the tops off at snow level.  They seem to 
be recovering fairly well though.

Dan

On 6/4/2011 11:37 PM, Christopher Kennel wrote:
> I get my fencing products from Stockyards Ranch Supply in Commerce City,
> CO.  I live in Denver, so it's one of the closest ranch supply stores for
> me.  I got the pricing wrong, it's $24.90 for the 18" but only $16.90 for
> the 12".  They have many more sizes, and if 2" hexagonal spaces work for you
> (as opposed to 1" ones), the prices are even cheaper.  You can see their
> catalog here: http://www.stockyardsupply.com/  What I refer to as chicken
> wire is more accurately called poultry netting.
>
> They've also had the best deal in town on concrete remesh (useful for making
> tomato cages and some espalier applications), but this spring they raised
> their remesh prices a bit.  Prior to the price increase a 5'x150' roll was
> about $68 while it was near $100 at Home Depot.
>
> Most of you probably know this, but for those who don't, I've found that
> ranch and farm supply stores are much better places to shop for fencing,
> trellising, and other post and wire related products than big box stores
> are.  That said, for stakes to hold my chicken wire in place, I use 1/2"
> galvanized EMT conduit which costs about $2 per 10' length at big box
> stores.  Just cut and/or bend it into whatever length or shape you need.
> For my strawberries I bend it into U shapes that are wide enough to cross
> the bed.  The actual shape consists of 3 straight sides with 90 degree turns
> between them.  Each leg of the U goes into the ground about a foot, the
> above ground vertical portions receive the chicken wire via cable ties, and
> the horizontal portion helps keep the bird netting off the top of my
> plants.  I use clothes pins to hold the bird netting in place, but I don't
> usually install the bird netting until I have ripe berries to protect.
>
> All the best,
> Chris Kennel
> Denver, CO
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Dan Nave<nave1@comcast.net>  wrote:
>
> > That sounds awfully cheap for chicken wire.  Where can you buy it at that
> > price?