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Re: Chicken Wire or Hardware Cloth?

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At 10:25 AM 12/21/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>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
>
I live in Idaho, and our chicken wire is NOT galvanized. Hardware cloth is.
 Margaret L


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