The first in a series of episodes on honeyberry production. Steffen Mirsky, UW Extension's Emerging Crops Outreach Program Coordinator, talks through the bird netting strategy at the UW cultivar trials.
A video showing bird netting installation at the West Madison Ag Research Station:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eBaLESobdA
Supply list:
- 6 foot t-posts
- T-post brackets
- 1 x 4 inch common board
- 3/4 inch panhead screws (for screwing t-post brackets to vertical sections of cross bars)
- 1 1/4 inch exterior wood screws (for screwing together vertical and horizontal cross bar sections)
- 14 inch heavy duty zip ties
- Sisal twine
- 1 inch diameter polyethylene tubing
- Tubing couplers
- Tubing end caps
- C-grip netting clips