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How do you put on bird netting over fruit trees?
On Jun 27, 10:51 am, "The Ranger" wrote:
sherwindu wrote in message ... [..] It took a full day to put it up and another to take it down. It took you a full day to put up and take down netting? Why? It shouldn't take more than 30-40 minutes with assistance from any able-bodied adult. I had a nice system though, using a vertical pole extending above the tree top. On top of the pole I had a horizontal 'X' crossbars with a wire around the perimeter and plastic bottles at the ends to allow the net to slip over it. Four guy wires held it up. Why did you stop using this system? It actually sounds like it would work a lot better than netting _and_ would be much easier to put up and take down. I have since gone to a different system of covering my more valuable fruits with zip lock sandwich bags. [..] also experimenting this year with nylon 'footsies', [snip] And you're concerned that the netting took a whole day? Putting footsies or ziplocks over individual fruit is such an extremely labor intensive job that the netting can't even come close to being. The Ranger For one thing your glasses wouldn't get tangled up in footsies or ziplocks. My pussy thinks the netting is a toy and loves to get all tangled in it while I was trying to put it up. Just covered my fig. However I think it was raccoons that were stealing my figs last year because it was something heavy enough to break branches. |
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