Blueberry season is overlapping with strawberry this year. It sneaked up on me so fast that I wound up putting up the blueberry netting at the start of the current heat wave. I found out the hard way in past years that without netting, there would be no blueberries for us to eat.
For some bushes on a hillside, I throw bird netting on them and hope for the best. But for a quartet of them, I have built a snap-together PVC frame. Once covered with netting, it allows us to walk through easily and pick at our leisure.
I have gotten better labeling and separating the pipes, so assembly is quicker and not as frustrating as it could be. After hammering the last piece of rebar into the ground and sliding a pipe over it, then comes the hard part: the netting.
Juana helps me maneuver the netting over and around the frame so I can attach it with compression clips. It’s frustrating as I am getting caught up in the netting as much as would a hungry bird. After a while, however, things become untangled and the net is in place. The berries are safe!
That is until Charlotte and Olivia visit the next day and can’t wait to pick clean all the ripe berries of the day.
