Subject: [NAFEX] How to keep birds from blueberries
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:55:20 -0500
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)