Thanks but I need something for nursery trees and bearing trees, deer have chewed off the fruit buds on lower limbs, few apples on lower limbs, all in the tops, have had some luck with one strand of barbwire, about 3 feet high, with aluminun foil crinkeld over the wire evey 30 feet, baited with peanut butter, works good, is cheap and easy, but coons find it and clean off the peanut butter, how do they do that??? -------------------------------------------- On Tue, 6/10/14, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
Subject: apple-crop Digest, Vol 42, Issue 17 To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2014, 11:00 AM Send apple-crop mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of apple-crop digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Deer, Fireblight, Liquid Fence (Mark & Helen Angermayer) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 09:02:42 -0500 From: "Mark & Helen Angermayer" <[email protected]> To: Apple-crop discussion list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [apple-crop] Deer, Fireblight, Liquid Fence Message-ID: <CANdwC8N3UiwoaOt1TZedRJGXygXDcdiosf5ge=rhvsbyqab...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I use a product called Bobbex. From a trial which seemed objective, it out-performed other deer repellant products. This product is recommended only for use on non-bearing trees, as it supposedly imparts an off-flavor to the fruit, which was actually a selling point for me. Anything that lasts so long as to render sprayed fruit inedible must last a long time. I've been using it for the last three years on new plantings with good success. My experience so far with it is that deer won't eat sprayed foliage, but will eat any new growth unsprayed. At their recommended mix, Bobbex is about 1/2 price for finished spray compared to the liquid fence mentioned above. A 5 gallon pail costs about $200 online. I've been mixing it at 1/2 of recommended strength and still getting good protection as long as new growth is covered. I use it on new trees during the rutting season and it also seems to help reduce rutting. We have plans to put an electric fence up in the near future which of course is the only true protection. Mark Angermayer Tubby Fruits ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list [email protected] http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop End of apple-crop Digest, Vol 42, Issue 17 ****************************************** _______________________________________________ apple-crop mailing list [email protected] http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop
