Re: [nafex] tree guards

["del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>]

	Tom , right about the rabbits. I've only seen 2 in the last 4 years though 
and they ended in the stew pot.   But just in case - remember my post a 
couple months ago about advertising for used chicken wire?   I got loads, 
and cheap- cleaned up some old piles for elderly farmers ......and now i 
have 4' high chicken wire as the rabbit and deer guard, about 3' dia.  as 
the trees grow up I'll add fencing or whatever for the deer,  I enjoyed your 
idea early this season about making trenches to guide the rabbits, is that 
still working?


>From: Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
>Reply-To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [nafex] tree guards
>Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 11:25:28 -0500
>
>Hi,
>
>I can tell you that if you have snow, two feet is not high enough.
>
>I have two apple whips that are gone where the 3' spriral wrap ends.  The 
>snow was at
>least 2' deep, and a rabbit on top of the snow ate the top of the tree.
>
>In my inlaw's orchard up the road, a rabbit ate all the buds off the lower 
>branches.
>Deep snow is a rabbits best friend.
>
>Regards,
>Tom
>
>Gord Hawkes wrote:
>
> > Hi Del.  We used aluminum window screening this year - went on extremely
> > well.  The jury is out until the snow is gone to determine just how
> > effective it was.  Will keep you and the list posted.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Gord Hawkes
> > www.logcabinorchard.com
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: del stubbs [mailto:pinewoodel@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 8:14 AM
> > To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [nafex] tree guards
> >
> > I've been a pondering tree gaurds, and a deep subject she is what with
> > plastic spiral wraps and aluminum foils and all.....But I keep returning 
>to
> > window screen.....
> >         it breathes,
> >         it can be painted white on the south (I understand that having 
>the shade
> > somewhat removed from the tree -rather than just painted bark- is better
> > protection)
> >         the holes are smaller than any field mice I know,
> >         should last many years even underground a few inches
> >         can be cheap
> >
> >         on the last note I called the local hardware store and found 
>that I could
> > buy a 100 foot roll of 2' window screen for $62 U.S.  If I cut it into 
>1'
> > strips that's 62 cents each, can you beat it?
> >         yep!, scrounger that I am I asked the clerk what happens to all 
>the
> > discarded screen...it took a while to convince him that someone could
> > actually want it!  bins of it he said,  come and get it, espcially come
> > spring.
> >         the quoted price was for aluminum, the common fiberglass was 
>cheaper, but i
> > didn't ask
> >         I just now tried rolling up a 1' by 2' sheet on a piece of an 
>old garden
> > handle and it made a nice tight roll......origionally i thought to just 
>wrap
> > it around tree (about 3 to 4" tube and staple edges tpogether)   but 
>this
> > 1"-three-times-around  tube would naturally expand with the tree. It 
>could
> > be secured with a quick wrap of twine if needed
> >         Any better ideas?
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>--
>Thomas Olenio
>Ontario, Canada
>Hardiness Zone 6a
>
>

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