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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

Jerrydana5 asks, "Any suggestions on how to keep birds from my blueberries? 
Netting is terribly expensive."


   Netting expensive????  Where have you been buying it?  The cheapest 
netting I've found comes from www.mdtgrow.com .  My blueberry patch consists 
of two rows of twelve bushes spaced 3' apart (both ways) with a 3' aisle 
between the bushes and a small cell chicken wire fence made stiff with some 
woven wire.  In the middle there are 4' high T posts running the length of 
the patch.  The T bars are connected by emt tubing so the netting can slide 
over easily.  The netting is held in place on both sides with snapper type 
clothes pins.
   I leave the netting in place over the Winter so the deer don't browse 
the bushes but the netting must be removed for flower pollination because 
the bumble bees won't fly through it.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)