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Re: Chicken Wire or Hardware Cloth?

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Chicken wire is less expensive and less substantial than hardware cloth.
Both are zinc covered (galvanized) steel.

Hardware cloth is available, typically, in 1/4 and 1/2 inch sizes. Both are
rodent proof, both make excellent screening material, for example, for one
of my Cantopper compost sifters, and both cost a lot more per square foot
than chicken wire, which is not rodent proof but will keep rabbits out and
chickens in, and is used by some folks as a spacer for planting seeds.

Both kinds are OK organically.

Hope this helps,

Frank Teuton


-----Original Message-----
From: Malachi 3:16 <mal316@ix.netcom.com>
To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 9:49 AM
Subject: Chicken Wire or Hardware Cloth?


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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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