"Magwitch" wrote in message
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anton muttered:


"Magwitch" wrote in message
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anton muttered:

I want to do espaliered pears around our new vegetable plot - a 3-sided
boundary measuring @ 12 metres per side. There will not be walls or
fencing
just the post supports, wires and the pear trees.


one more thing - will they need protection from deer and
rabbits?


Rabbit protection is fairly easy- you can get spiral-wound plastic thingies
to protect the trunk, which is probably worth doing in any case. These also
protect against voles which can be a problem when the trees are young.

Whether deer are a problem depends on where you are. Standard apple trees
can be physically protected against deer, but I can't see how an espalier
can.

Janet B's recipes for deer protection, iirc, include sweaty T-shirts tied at
deer-nose level. Have I got that right, Janet?

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Anton