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

This year I have finally gotten my act together and put my bird netting on my 
honyeberries, don't know how it will work.  I bought the rolls from Veseys a 
couple years ago, don't remember what it cost, but wasn't that much and 
honeyberries are a similar size bush/berry to blueberries so whatever happens 
in my field should be typical.

Last year, my friends sewed together the ends of a couple rolls of round bale 
netting to cover their honeyberries and it worked like a charm: first crop 
they've gotten in a couple years.  'Course they had to duck the dive bombing 
Cedar Waxwings while they were putting it on...  

Apparently farmers have no use for the small amounts of bale nettin that are 
still long enough to put on rows of berries so I'm going to ask around and 
see if I can find any free netting for my new 4 new 120' rows of haskaps.

Sarah 
zone 3
Edmonton, AB


--- On Thu, 6/23/11, Michele Stanton <6ducks@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Michele Stanton <6ducks@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] How to keep birds from blueberries
> To: "'North American Fruit Explorers'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Received: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 6:39 PM
> Jerry
> I went to an old feed store in so. Ohio and bought some
> used 10' wide
> tobacco row covers.  Inexpensive, and did the
> job.  I use it on my
> jostaberries where the birds choose them by color.  I
> put the row cover over
> just before the berries start to turn, and it does the
> trick.  I tried
> netting once, but the birds could see the berries, and they
> were relentless
> in their attempts to get through (they succeeded). My guess
> is this would
> work for blueberries.
> 
> Michele
> SW Ohio
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> Any suggestions on how to keep birds from my
> blueberries?  Netting is
> terribly expensive. (about 14 bushes in a row) and they
> always seem to get
> underneath it.  pie tins?  Muffin tins? I'm tired
> of feeding the birds this
> way.  jerry in southern Indiana
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