<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div>This week I tried some very light weight quarter-inch open mesh plastic net bags that <a href="http://Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> calls “Yellow net bags”<div>or something like that. They don’t catch wind, and might be useful if they could be bought in larger size that could be</div><div>pulled down over the whole tree. Mine are about 10 x 20 inches when flat. On single one-year-old branches that are making</div><div>lateral shoots, they crowd the leaves over each other, limiting photosynthesis and bending shoot growth. I’ve not found a source </div><div>of large bags.</div><div><br></div><div>David Kollas</div><div>Kollas Orchard</div><div>Tolland, CT</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 16, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Jon Clements <<a href="mailto:jon.clements@umass.edu">jon.clements@umass.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Anyone ever tried or have any idea if Surround (kaolin clay) repels deer or makes little apple trees less desirable to feed upon?<div><br></div><div>Jon<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Jon Clements<br>aka 'Mr Honeycrisp'<br>UMass Cold Spring Orchard<br>393 Sabin St.<br>Belchertown, MA 01007<br>413-478-7219<br><a href="http://umassfruit.com/" target="_blank">umassfruit.com</a><br></div></div>
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