Hello all Here is my pics. My small 10 by 10 or so Raspberry patch is my prize. No chemicals all these years. Knock on wood. LOL Got Hubby to start me my enclosure. Its not Martha Stewart but it works. at least Im getting 95 percent of berries myself. YEAH>>>> Other years I used old curtain sheers draped over. Had to crawl around. BOOO on that. Most of the upright conduits are 10 foot tall. Of course I dont need it tall but. The pipes are nice Heavy Duty aluminum or steel. They were given to us years ago by a friend. So thats why I dont want them cut off. I put in like 6 or more 1/2 inch uprights later and a few horizontal ones myself. They were cheap ones. Used ground rods first. hammered in then put the 1/2 thin wall conduits over them . with lots of rain lately they were not as hard to push in the gound some myself. Hubby said why did I use the larger fence material on top.??? Well I bought it last year on clearance with using it for several purposes. so I put some of my ,not in use, old aluminum window screens and found 4 at junk pickup. Do you all think it might cut down on sunlight too much??? Since Im a procrastinator. some plants were damaged when putting up the first set of uprights. Plus I know I have them still too close. Unfortunately rental house in back dirty maple shade in encroaching on the sunlight. Plus I have a Small in depth backyard. Gotta do what I gotta do. Used some 1" plastic poultry mesh on the sides. bought some some from years ago some from junk pickup,too. weighed at bottom with dowel rods ( most from junk pickup finds. Plush some old bird netting either given to me or found or had years ago. Im greedy so all plants are not inside enclosure. Would you all believe I tried to give away to several people I know raspberry starts.??? Next year if all goes well. will sell some young starts. Like I did some of my other floral items Have found a bird several times inside. Scared the Heck out of them. Chased them out. they found a weak spot. and left. Too bad Next year will order some of that small holed plastic netting found over the web. Found like 10 Japanese beetles so far. smashed them suckers

April has been a very cold month. lows down to 18 degrees. we just got dumped on with 18 inches of snow. My blueberry bushes have weathered very well this month. every night I cover them with a 55 gallon plastic trash can. you can use food grade barrels too. it works for me because I only have 12 bushes. home depot or lowes sell them. no need to panic. its so easy to rig up a system to protect your blueberry bushes. you can buy cheap wood. make 4 sides and throw a plastic cover over the wood to protect your bushes.

Yes,but I gave him permission.He initially asked if he could 'borrow' some and when I said yes,it seemed like he was around every morning. .22 or a pellet gun huh?I'll have to look into that. :) Brady

I've recently seen a chipmunk in the yard and we have a baby bunny living in the front perennial bed. I have four blueberry bushes with blueberries starting on them. Last year, I put netting over one and it was such a pain in the neck. hard to get it to cover the whole thing and anchor it and a bird got under it. Then taking it off and untangling it was no fun either. I've read that some growers who have too many bushes to net, use pretend snakes and predator birds around their patches that they think work if you keep moving them around. I've done nothing so far and I may end up watching the animals get them.