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Re: Chicken Wire or Hardware Cloth?

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Chicken wire is more expensive than hardware cloth? Hmm, that's interesting.
(I'm not the Home Depot shopper for things construction, so I don't know
prices.) Chicken wire has little octagonal (or hexagonal?) holes. 

I'd probably opt for hardware cloth, and bend them into little 3-sided boxes
to go over your beds, rather than cut them out in patterns. (Do be sure to
have a pair of leather gloves to wear for any cutting. Oucheeee!) That way
you could accommodate your taller plants. You could use two of them at right
angles to each other over the bed if the 3-sides doesn't offer enough
protection. What I'm talking about looks like this:

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Just take a length of the hardware cloth and bend it (over the corner of a
workbench) in two spots. Voila. Mel's book has some ideas in it, too
(haven't looked at them in a while).

I'm sure experienced gardeners will have even better ideas.         

Patricia 
Zone 7b, West Georgia          

I think Mel's book has 


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>I went to Home Depot yesterday to look at some chicken wire ( can't
>remember if this is the exact name). They sell it in rolls and costs
>around $11 dollars or so a roll. I also noticed something called
>"Hardware Cloth" in smaller rolls and it cost less. Can hardware
>cloth be used instead of chicken wire? I want to use it to cover
>the beets and other plants that the dogs and birds like to eat. I can't
>cover everything because some of the plants are tall so I have to
>cut the cloth to fit the areas I need to be covered. Also, will using 
>this violate organic gardening in any way? Will any chemicals come
>off this hardware cloth or anything undesirable go into the soil if
>it rains? Thanks for any help.
>
>     Susan S. in zone 9
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