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Removing cherry trees
On 18/06/2014 23:14, Bob Hobden wrote:
"P. Alves" wrote ... Birds. I honestly do not mind sharing the fruit, but the dam birds eat all of them. Also the strong winds often destroy part of of the fruits. Why not cover the trees in netting, as most people do with cherries, to stop the birds, it would be a lot cheaper then getting new fruit trees and waiting for them to fruit. We have a fruit cage over our 4 cherry trees and I prune the trees to ensure they remain within the cage. The RHS at Wisley cover their cherry trees in netting. Unfortunately we do have a problem with mice climbing the trees but in a normal year we do get a decent crop of cherries. Not this year as because of the mild wet winter the trees flowered so early there were not many pollinating insects about. That explains the poor crop on my giant cherry tree, last year there were so many it was impossible to use them all, this year I doubt if there were ten percent of last year, and I scarcely got any. The tree is too big to net without a crane. |
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