Look what's on sale at Menards
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Bluecollaroutdoors
5 year old buck +
$107 down to $81.99 for me.
Scenttrails
5 year old buck +
Picked a roll up last night. $72.15 with my daughters boyfriends employee discount.
Thanks for the heads up. Now I need the stakes and screen.
Thanks for the heads up. Now I need the stakes and screen.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
You do not need any stakes or at most one stake with these unless you are dealing with moose. I have bought the cheapest conduit from Menards and cut a 10 foot piece into 2 or 3 pieces to stake the wire down.
CrazyEd
5 year old buck +
I have over 100 grafts in my Nursery. And I'm grafting 110 more in march/April. :)
Scenttrails
5 year old buck +
Sandbur, will I need a stake to support the apple trees? Screen around the base to keep rodents away?
sandbur
5 year old buck +
I should let the experts answer that. I believe the answer varies with the rootstock.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
Are we talking stakes to secure the cages or to support the tree? For cages you can probably get away without any stakes if you go with the concrete mesh, personally I like 2 stakes to secure the cage. The trees themselves will benefit from a stake several feet tall to be able to give the main leader some directional support, especially in really windy locations.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
I have had an occasional cement wire cage blow over if it does not have a stake in place.
2ndHand
5 year old buck +
I Picked up eight rolls yesterday (thanks for the tip), planning on using two T-post per cage. For tree stakes, I'm using 1/2 conduit. I bought 80 10 footers when they were on sale for 1.79. I still need to purchase top soil, manure and peat moss. Looking forward to spring!
g squared 23
5 year old buck +
How many cages (approximately) are you guys getting out of one of these rolls?
Ogemaone
5 year old buck +
15 feet per cage equals 10 cages
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
Dont make them any smaller. You will get anterless deer reaching through your cages and doing your pruning for you. You can make them smaller if you wrap a section of poultry wire around the cage to exclude the deer.
B
BJE80
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That stuff really is the ticket. Really was great to work with when we planted our apple trees.
You'll want to put some window screen down around the trunks so the mice don't girdle the trunks. I buy a roll of the standard aluminum window screen that's about 24" tall and I cut it in 18" lengths and staple it together with a standard stapler. I typically bury the screen down a couple inches into the dirt so the mice can't get under it.
I've also had good luck with the white plastic spiral trunk guards, but I've heard the screens work better for air flow so I've switched. I haven't had any rodent damage with either method, but the few times I've tried to skip that step I've ended up with girdled trees that die.
2ndHand
5 year old buck +
Here's the window screen I bought for rodent protection:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000C...dow+screen&dpPl=1&dpID=41X0+2BKmCL&ref=plSrch
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000C...dow+screen&dpPl=1&dpID=41X0+2BKmCL&ref=plSrch
CrazyEd
5 year old buck +
I bought that stuff too.
Scenttrails
5 year old buck +
Thanks Ben, 2nd Hand and Crazy Ed.
I have 14 Apple trees coming this spring and want to get this right.
2nd Hand, where are you located in west central wisconsin?
I have 14 Apple trees coming this spring and want to get this right.
2nd Hand, where are you located in west central wisconsin?
