Net cage

[partisangardener]

I have made my net cage for the bog more comfortable. Probable less dangerous for the passing birds because there are no folds in it.
Four poles out of steel into the ground. At the top of each a triangle through which a wire passes around all the four corners.
This is the roof. It has its own net spread over it and about half a meter over the sides.
All around are pieces of iron rod fixed in the net to keep it in place and weigh it down. It can move freely when snow or leafs are on it.
Just below another wire where a kind of curtain is threaded into. to move freely and be opened at the entrance where it overlaps. This is also weighed down by iron.
This cage here is actually 2,2 meters high and 3,5 to 5 meters around.

[fermi de Sousa]

Hello Axel,
why have you caged in the bog? Were the birds damaging the plants or ripping up the moss?
How small are the holes? Do they also exclude insects?
We often net our fruit trees to try to exclude the parrots!
cheers
fermi

[partisangardener]

Hello Fermi
My local birds have there their military training ground. Looks like they use small hand grenades.
Some plants are missing some disappeared altogether. The moss is spread everywhere.
Could be a small war.
My meshes are 2 cm wide so it doesn't exclude insects apart from the very big ones like dragon flies. But would be possible with another mesh. There is an issue with Drosophila suzukii coming up.

[Hannelore]

Since many years I use "Strawberry ripeners" not for Strawberries but for every place where I wish to keep the birds out. They can pick through it to catch snails or other beasts, but they cannot devastate the mulch around a plant.

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BW
Hannelore

[Maggi Young]

A clever idea, Hannelore.