Property News · January 2, 2016

Alys Fowler: give fruit netting some TLC now, and help the birds into the bargain


If the wind doesn’t whip the netting to shreds, snow will weigh it down until the frame breaks; plus, it’s also important that your fruit plants get a little wild, cageless timeI walk over to the allotment, intending to bodge my shed roof back together. If my shed roof was a metaphor for my life – that is, scraps of plastic, a few sheets of corrugated iron sheeting secured by broken limbs from trees, and under all that a very large hole and rotten timber – then I’d be very broken and badly patched. Thankfully, it is just a shed roof. I can choose to look at it as a metaphor, or I can accept that repairing it hasn’t been much of a priority, and just resecure the corruguated iron sheets with frozen fingers: winter has danced across the garden.Well, my fruit cage is in a similar state to my shed roof. I pull apart the broken timber and remove the netting. This is the first rule of fruit cages (and one that I have singularly failed to follow, much like choosing to fix the shed roof in summer, rather than in the depths of winter): never leave the netting on over winter. If the wind doesn’t whip it to shreds, snow will weigh it down until the frame breaks; plus, it’s also important that the fruit gets a little wild, cageless time. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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