Posted on 02/06/2015 12:32:13 PM PST by greeneyes
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I give away as much as I can with the hope of turning people on to growing their own food.
We had some trees taken out last Spring and the usual delay in things like that held up my tomatoes or I would have given a bag of tomatoes and other veggies to all the neighbors on my street like I did the year before. I especially give to the neighbors next door who like the perfect green grass yards and, I’m sure, think I’m binging down their property value with my hobby. LOL!
I also give to neighbors who I know really appreciate home grown and those with lots of kids. One neighbor has a single and quads! That’s a lot of mouths to feed!
I bring lot of fresh veggies o summer gatherings and picnics as well as giving veggies to coworkers. I am amazed how many people have never really tasted a good, homegrown, tomato! I’d like to get them growing one or two plants of their own. Really good homegrown veggies are great, straight from the garden.
For me,gardening is about taste and sharing.
Still culling my lists of things to order. That’s a long and arduous process. I made it slightly easier by marking them as “this year” or “next year”, instead of yes or no :)
My eyes are still bigger than my budget, so I have more culling to do.
How small are the trees? I’ve known people who built a PVC frame around the entire tree and put a net over it. But that mainly works with small trees.
An image search turned up the name Schizomyia viticola, but I haven’t found a good description of the bug itself, other than that it’s a type of midge.
Not really small enough for that. It’s still fairly young, but it is too tall to frame up IMO. I think my little basket cage idea may work, so I will work on that in the next week or so. My main problem is that I have the only peach tree around here. Supply and demand. I supply, they demand. Usually they don’t bother the tiny peaches -it’s when they get about 3/4 of the way to ready that they all converge - and all on the same day.
I thought of getting this bird netting which has the smaller openings, but after watching a bird peck right through the tulle I had used, I doubt it would be as successful as I might like. It would be nice if I could manage to be smarter than a squirrel or a blue jay.
Me too. Still culling.
I think that’s great. We don’t have a lot of extra stuff at this point, but I do share squash and zukes when we have too many.
/johnny
Sure do appreciate it! I’ll let ya know how it goes!
Think in terms of a fish net , or 'fish net repair'. Many insturctions available on the internet, or U-tube
This way you can make the netting gaps as small as you want
You just have to have some structure (support arms) to keep the netting away from the tree fruit .
You didn't mention if this was a dwarf tree, a newer hybrid which grows fruit clost to the trunk , or a full-sized tree.
The size and shape of the tree makes a difference; whereas the 'tangle-foot hot sauce' is non-discriminatory, depending on the tree size and tree shape, and height of the perp'.
I forgot to mention that the fish net can be made of monofilament fishing line
as that is what most fishing (bait) net is made of.
Size of netting, and size of fishing line is based on avialablity.
Lately we’ve been watching a lot of ‘gardening-in-small-spaces’ videos, and I found this great web channel, by a gentleman named Larry Hall:
https://www.youtube.com/user/larrylhall
We’ve gotten some neat ideas from him.
-JT
Thanks for the link.
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