--------------21C952CB5DA55120E3F62E1E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Way at the start, when I first got this place, I enclosed the back end ENTIRELY with wire netting, for security of fruit. Yet I find now that some human has just cut through it, a big swath, for entrance to the fruit garden. At first I thought--animals-- but finally figured out only a human could do that kind of damage. Cut ends as tho done by scissors, not teeth. So I have put wire netting still higher all around==10 ft high.. And yesterday I went to the front yard and found most of a shrub destroyed there, where someone tried to get in, crashing from above the netting. Those trees/ shrubs take years to develop---a big loss. Neighbor tells me it is not the neighborhood-- thefts occurring even in La Jolla, the rich people's territory. When I think of all the years of effort, the times I loaded my car with stinky manure, the many seaweed sprays, etc etc, and all for nothing except to satisfy a thief. I have one huge sapote tree by the sidewalk, and it just pours out fruits now, but thieves don't bother it. Fruits fall all over the street and sidewalk, a big job at least 2x a day to keep cleaned off. Why don't they steal those??? Ron Hay wrote: > Hello, again, Mary-Anne, > > Dont' talk to me about squirrels! Our Fuyu persimmon is netted so > securely that I cannot get my hand into it from any direction....yet we > have lost two fruits to marauding squirrels this week! Persimmons are an > alternate-year-bearing tree, so we are all the more vexed. > > Congratulations on your avocado! > > Ron -- Bargyla Rateaver http://home.earthlink.net/~brateaver --------------21C952CB5DA55120E3F62E1E Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">Way at the start, when I first got this place, I enclosed the back end ENTIRELY with wire netting, for security of fruit. Yet I find now that some human has just cut through it, a big swath, for entrance to the fruit garden.
Neighbor tells me it is not the neighborhood-- thefts occurring even in La Jolla, the rich people's territory.
When I think of all the years of effort, the times I loaded my car with stinky manure, the many seaweed sprays, etc etc, and all for nothing except to satisfy a thief.
I have one huge sapote tree by the sidewalk, and it just pours out fruits now, but thieves don't bother it. Fruits fall all over the street and sidewalk, a big job at least 2x a day to keep cleaned off. Why don't they steal those???
Ron Hay wrote:
Hello, again, Mary-Anne,Dont' talk to me about squirrels! Our Fuyu persimmon is netted so
securely that I cannot get my hand into it from any direction....yet we
have lost two fruits to marauding squirrels this week! Persimmons are an
alternate-year-bearing tree, so we are all the more vexed.Congratulations on your avocado!
Ron
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