tomato plants and chicken wire
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Protecting plants: anything better than chicken wire?
Comments (12)Do you make a ring out of the chicken wire first and then set the cage around the plant/bush or are you trying to wrap it around an existing plant/bush and then anchor it? I made a number of different size chicken wire rings and set them over the plants while the plants are first emerging in the spring. In the winter I store them by hanging them on nails I have put up high on my garage walls. When you put the nails up make sure you allow for the length of the wire cages to be hung, so that you are not hitting your head on them. I learned that one from experience. :( Some of the things that I know the bunnies are going to try to eat in the winter, like my tiny barberry and spirlia bushes I put the wire cages around in the fall for over winter. When the bushes get big enough I will not need the chicken wire cages because I know that they won't be eaten then. The tender parts of the bushes are too high up for bunnies to get to and they don't tend to gnaw at the base of the thicker branches. I use coat hangers cut with a wire cutter and bent into a "U" shape for anchors. I found that just setting chicken wire into the dirt does not keet the adorable little critters out, as they will bend the wire up from the ground and get through....See MoreThe Empowerment of Chicken Wire
Comments (2)I spent a good part of the morning making our tiny lawn look worse than it already did. Just in time for the big party on Wednesday... I realized something, at each major "feeding" hole excavation cluster, there was a large Alaska Shasta Daisy plant close by. With little chew marks too. I looked around the yard and noticed almost all the worst gopher damage was close to a shasta daisy, three guesses where all the shasta daisies are now. Good thing we were not happy with how much water they wanted or how big they got. The gophers also did a number to the roots of our unknown old rose suckers, so those were dug up (not bareroot time here but what can ya do) and moved them. I think they were just in the gopher highway zone were they come from the neighbors brick pile. I have a few traps set, I sure hope I have less gopher activity tomorrow. Oh and we put baskets over the poor lavenders the skunks dig up every night. Wildlife...not the kind I love...See MoreChicken wire for critters
Comments (3)Last year was my first year with raised beds using the square foot method. I found that dogs love to dig around in the new mix at first, so I made the chicken wire covers like the book said. I used 2x2s instead of 1x2s, which I don't think is better but I had the 2x2s. The chicken wire was a pain to work with, but kept the dogs out. I stacked them beside my storage shed over the winter. Now they look like crap but still work. Attached is a photo....See MoreChickens and tomatoes
Comments (6)Thanks.....Bird netting, I can do..Electric fence stays.....I confess to reading extensively before 'pulling the trigger' and ordering them (about socialization) couldn't find much on 'in the garden' other than not a good idea to let them in on a freshly planted one (duh)........The trauma was w/ my Aunt's chickens, man they were mean..I had to go out and get the eggs, the nest boxes were about chest high to me those hens would come after me 'tooth' and nail. Then w/ them raisin' a ruckus here comes the rooster..... I picked hens that had docile, social, easy.....etc...In their discription. Plus having had a lovebird and ringnecked parrakeet (sp?) hands on and interaction is key...................See More- 16 years ago
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