Look what's on sale at Menards

[chummer]

I wait till fall to put the screens on, otherwise there will be a lot of sprouts in the screen. By waiting you can clip off all those little sprouts before you staple the screens on.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I guess all of us are in " stocking up " mode. Mesh for cages, screen, lumite, conduit for stakes. I just finished all my tree tags for this spring. Aluminum 1" x 3.5" tags engraved with apple or crab name, rootstock, and 2015. #14 insulated solid copper wire for attaching. They're all in a plastic ice cream tub in my truck ready to roll. Re-bar stakes, 2 rolls of soft tie-wire, small bolt cutters, landscape cloth - all ready to go.

 

[CrazyEd]

Aglok is also a great supply to have in the orchard. I use 2-3 pieces to keep the tree attached to the conduit. You can easily expand and move them around as the tree grows.

 

[Catscratch]

Picked up 150ft yesterday. It didn't fit very well in my little Kia but we made it home ok. Time to start making circles...

 

[SmallChunk]

Isn't there a number of squares to go by to cut the correct length? I thought I remembered hearing this?

 

[TMIL]

A 15-ft length will make a 5-ft diameter cage. The squares are 6 inches, so 30 squares will give you 15 ft. And the 150-ft roll will give you 10 cages.

 

[Jim Timber]

Put a fixed loop in the end of a string, then cut it to the right length. Hook it over a cut end and lay on the mesh to identify the correct section to cut.

Brutal efficiency. ;)