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[Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com>]

Hi Scott,
 
I have some experience with this sort of system for protecting blueberries.  
We use it here on our research station so that we can still evaluate fruit on 
our seedlings in the breeding plots as well as for our replicated yield 
trials.  Many growers in this area also use a similar system for small 
acreages of blueberries. I would be happy to answer any specific questions 
you have.
 
Generally speaking, we have been very happy with this.  There is a bit of 
labor involved in sliding the mesh and clipping the panels together at the 
beginning of the season and then taking it down in the fall.  Wrapping the 
mesh in black plastic (it can still hang from the poles, this is easy to do 
if it is all bunched up to an end or in the middle) will help protect from UV 
and lengthen the life of the mesh considerably.  It is essential to take it 
down over the winter.  A small amount of ice or a moderate snow fall will 
cause you more headaches than the amount of work involved in putting it up 
and taking it down each year.  There are some variations on exact design for 
bracing posts etc (inside vs. outside).  We prefer to have them inside 
because it makes mowing and field maintenance much easier.  If you have a 
small tractor or riding mower, it is easy enough to have nails on your end 
posts to hang the end curtain up for mowing the alleyways and
 accessing the rows under the net during the growing season as need be.  We 
have both 10' and 20' panels in different fields.  The 20' is less work for 
clipping etc. (half the number of panels for the same area) but will sag more 
and give you less height clearence in the alleyways.  I am 6'1 and have to 
duck as I walk down the rows in our fields with the 20' panels, whereas this 
is not a problem in our other fields that are 10'.

Michael

Michael Dossett
Mission, British Columbia
www.Mdossettphoto.com
phainopepla@yahoo.com
 

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 From: Scott Breneman <sbreneman@yourgoodwill.org>
To: "'nafex@lists.ibiblio.org'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:06 AM
Subject: [nafex] Smart Net for blueberry protection
  
We are at our wits end for keeping birds from eating 100 percent of our 
blueberries. 
I'm looking at the smart net system:

12 foot posts driven to 9'
high tensile stretched on top
mesh slides on the high tensile suspended over the entire patch 
side curtains. 

Any experience with this system--much appreciate comments. 

Thanks, 

Scott

Scott Breneman
Farm Manager
 
Goodwilll at Homefields Farm
PO Box 38 
150 Letort Rd
Millersville, PA  17551
http://www.yourgoodwill.org/farm  
P: 717-871-3110

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Last summer I blundered into the largest, juiciest, most abundant (at least
near the ground) black cherries I've ever eaten, growing in sand in a
stunted grove near the tip of Cape Henlopen State Park, DE.

Yum.

They're to the west of the tower (in case anyone on this list happens to be
down that way when black cherries are ripe this year - the first week of
August in that location)

Pete Chrisbacher