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Chatting => Equipment Shed => Topic started by: mikeimp on March 03, 2013, 12:07

Title: Fruit Cages
Post by: mikeimp on March 03, 2013, 12:07

I have just ordered 12 Raspberry canes to put into our garden plot.As we have our fair share of Birds in the garden I was wondering about protection and a fruit cage.I could move some of our strawberries into it as well rather than laying netting over them.Can anyone give me advice on buying a fruit cage and size I would need to house perhaps two lines of 6 canes per line?  Thanks.

Title: Re: Fruit Cages
Post by: GrannieAnnie on March 03, 2013, 12:50

Hi Mike

Something like this image, but they are nearly £50 

Whereas I bought 2 pair of garden arches from Ebay at about £17 for a pair that I am going to rig up something similar for my runner beans.  You could get something like that and cover with cheap netting, or I have made one in the past for my blackcurrant bush out of canes cable tied together and covered with the cheap pond netting out of Wilkinsons.