Jul
23
2010
Easy Gardener 6030 BirdBlock 28-by-28-Foot Netting
Posted by Blogmaster in Birds, tags: 28by28Foot, 6030, BirdBlock, Easy, Gardener, Netting
- Protects fruits and berries
- Prevents hungry birds from eating crops
- Won’t harm birds
- Reusable
- Limit 1 per order
Product Description
* Protects fruit trees, berry bushes, and vegetables from thieving birds and other garden pests * Tough and durable polypropylene bird netting mesh is considered the ideal method of protection by gardening authorities * 3/4″ mesh provides total protection without harming birds and small animals * 28′ x 28′
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We made a frame to go over and around our blueberry bushes. Glad to see that we could order netting that was 28 ft by 28 ft. It would be perfect to keep the birds away from our blueberries. Not so much…….the netting came in 2 pieces – for almost $40 we really thought we were getting a piece of netting. We already had scraps that we could have used but we thought this would work better.
Wasted $40
Rating: 3 / 5
This worked extremely well at keeping the birds away from the fruit on our plum and peach trees. Although some birds did learn to get at the fruit by flying in from underneath. My hope was to bundle and tie the netting around the base of the tree to prevent this, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t because the mesh of the netting catching on anything and everything. The mesh catches on every twig end. The mesh catches on every little nub on every branch. And just when you think you’re making some headway trying to get a section untangled, you’ll discover that the mesh has also caught on two shirt buttons, your watch band and your belt buckle. So I eventually lost all patience at getting the netting positioned so that I could bundle and tie it around the base of the tree.
Hopefully, all your fruit will ripen at the same time, as you’ll even have almost as much trouble trying to get the netting off the tree; that you’ll never attempt to put it back on to protect unripe fruit. As I was trying to remove it, I couldn’t let any section that I had previously untangled sag anywhere else, or a new battle would ensue (it was even snagging with things on the ground).
I do like the way the netting performs though, so next year I’ll try either of these experiments below.
Experiment 1: Slide a large plastic sheet over the tree. Then slide the netting over the plastic and secure one side of the netting. Slide the plastic sheet out from under the netting on the side that isn’t secured.
Experiment 2: Buy two bottles of wine. Serve the wine to 3 invited friends. Secure each corner of a netting sheet to a long pole. Have all 4 people hold the poles high with the netting stretched tight. Walk and position the netting so it is directly over the tree as I want it. Drop the poles. Pray that the netting landed where it was supposed to!
Rating: 3 / 5
The netting came on time and was exactly what I needed. Service and product were perfect
Rating: 5 / 5
The bird block has kept the birds out of the cherry tree and we still have all of most of our cherries. They can still land on the netting and eat the ones at the top but this is about as sood as it get!
Rating: 5 / 5