Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
|
#1
|
|||
|
|||
How do you put on bird netting over fruit trees?
James wrote:
On Jun 26, 11:32 am, George Shirley wrote: James wrote: I got the netting but it get all tangled up with my shirt buttons and is impossible to get over the tree. It's almost invisible. There are at least 4 squirrels dinning on my pears. I only got 4 Bartlet left on the tree so I can just wrap them. I had just thin the Asian pears and right after the squirrels thin them a whole lot more. Was going to shoot them up they are young ones and I didn't have the heart. We use two people with a pole about 10-12 feet long each. At the end of the pole I used a saw and cut a Y. The Y holds the netting while you get it up and over the top. Put the netting on after the fruit sets but before it gets any bigger. Pull the netting together at the base of the tree and tie it loosely around the trunk. This spring was the first time I netted my fruit trees and also the first time I beat the squirrels and the grackles to the fruit. I would shoot the tree rats but I live in a town that has, unwisely, proclaimed itself a "wildlife refuge." The old biddy next door puts out corn on the cob for the tree rats and they bring it over to my place and drop it all over the place. Occasionally my Rat Terrier gets a squirrel and that's legal but not enough to please me when there's twenty of them after my garden and fruit. Not to mention the electrical transformers they commit suicide with blowing up. HTH George I think I'd leave the net over the tree once in place. Fruit theives can have any fruit that set over the net. Only problem is that limbs tend to grow during the year in my climate and then it's hell getting the netting off without cutting it up. Normally the netting will last several years. I hit on the idea of just pruning off new growth that grows through the netting and it's working so far. George |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Only botheration is that limbs tend to abound during the year in my climate and again it's hell accepting the applique off after acid it up. Normally the applique will endure several years. I hit on the abstraction of just pruning off new advance that grows through the applique and it's working so far.
__________________
Grow tents |
Reply |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Best Way to Put Netting over Seedlings in Raised Bed? | United Kingdom | |||
How do you put on bird netting over fruit trees? | Edible Gardening | |||
Parachute netting for fruit trees | Edible Gardening | |||
If a geezer can't call a bird a bird what can he call a bird? | Gardening | |||
Light colored bird netting ?? | Gardening |