Orchard netting ideas

Protect your delicious, homegrown fruit crops with our netted orchard structures. One of the key permaculture principles is “obtain a yield”. Protecting your home-grown fruit from Melbourne’s wildlife can be very challenging, if not impossible. Possums, fruit bats, and parrots will all enthusiastically devour fruit crops the day before you’re ready to pick them. All […]

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Farmers can safely protect their crops from flying-foxes and birds with canopy or tunnel nets. Netting is the only consistently effective method; nothing else works when native food supplies are in...

Polypipe cut at 7 metre lengths and threaded over star pickets makes the structure. We read about it on Scarecrows blog. The pipe was rural water pipe for drainage. Star pickets 5'6". We think 7 metres was the maximum you should cut it at as some of the pieces have bent over a bit under the heat and/or weight of the netting. We could drill holes in the top of the pipe and thread wire through. Tying off lengths the same distance apart as the star pickets. This would keep them evenly spaced…

Protect your assets from birds with Haverford's bird netting collection. Our high-strength, lightweight bird netting is suitable for a range of applications, including orchards, vineyards, commercial and residential areas, fruit fly and insect netting, hail protection netting.

Advice, tips and information guide on fruit cages for protecting plants and growing fruit & veg on allotments, gardens or grow patches

If you’ve ever grown berries for your enjoyment, then you know how much birds enjoy them, as well. If you’ve been following my blogs, you’ve most likely seen photos of the pergolas on my farm. They were constructed using 18th century Chinese granite upright posts and topped with simple, but elegant stained cross beams. This

Total harvest protection specialist. fox rabbit bird proof backyard orchard coverings

This was my first design. Cost about $15. Plastic fence mounted on garden stakes. Worked pretty good for 3 months. The deer used to nibble on the shoots once in a while, but it did not bother me. Then in late summer deer must have been running low of juicy food so they tore my Asian pear tree in hal...