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.
Installing netting 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 (to secure the vertical cross bar sections to the t-post)
- Sisal twine
- 1 inch diameter polyethylene tubing
- Tubing couplers
- Tubing end caps
- C-grip netting clips
