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Re: sq ft cages

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   Chicken wire is a little flimsy.  Hardware cloth is rather stiff.  If you
took a 3ft width and cut off 1ft you could make a nice arch and two would
make a cage.  I think that was in the book also.  I would tell you what to
do with the crows but they are a protected specie.  This spring we had a
very large mob of crows nearby for one day.  Usually they are no problem
here.

Jim allAn zone 5 New York State
Northeastern USA.
----- Original Message -----
From: Debbie Turner <lovesmercy@juno.com>
To: <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:19 PM
Subject: sq ft cages


> Square Foot Gardening List - http://myweb.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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> Does anyone here build the small cages to go over the individual squares
> (to keep the critters out) - this idea being in the sfg book.  I got some
> chicken wire, and went at it.  Never having worked with chicken wire, I
> was intimidated by how flimsy it was.  I had these marshmellow sticks I
> had made from saplings earlier in the spring, and I cut them up to give a
> little support to the structure, sticking them a few inches into the
> ground.  Wish I had read that far in the book last year when I tried to
> grow corn!  I couldn't believe it one day when the crows got it all ...
> and it had gotten several inches tall, too ... didn't think they'd want
> it at that point!
>
> I am curious as to whether anyone else is doing this (the cage thing),
> and if so what materials are you using?  I am sure that I am way behind
> you all ... being in upstate NY, and planting late at that!  I am very
> excited to see my pole beans coming up, and can't tell the other stuff
> ... if it is weeds I am seeing or the seedlings.  The pictures on the
> seed packages are rather useless to me.  I know the beets are up too.
>
> Deb
>
> Wife to Craig,  mom to Rebecca (11), Ricky (9), Robbie (3), Isaac (20
> mo.) and Bethany (23), mom-in-law to Josh (24), and Grandma to be.
>
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