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Cloches
Cold Frames
Compost Bins
Fruit Covers
Greenhouse
Raised Beds

Espaliered fruit trees

Covers - to keep out the late frost and rain
Cages - to keep out birds

These fruit tree cage sides in the pictures are folded in half. When the cherries are ripening we raise the folded half and fasten them at the top to keep out the birds

Espaliered pear trees - Barlett and its pollinator Conference

Espaliered nectarine under cover.

Strawberry bed

- These beds will be replanted with strawberry plants in the spring. The raised bed is very well drained, and warmer in the earlier spring and the sheet-metal formed edge of bed keeps out slugs, hinged wire cage to keep out birds and dogs.

Before wire cage - birds/dogs: all the berries; people: 0 berries.
After wire cage - birds/dogs: 0; people: all the berries.

Unplanted strawberry bed

Blueberry cage

- to keep the birds from eating all the fruit.

Before wire cage - birds: all the berries; people: 0 berries.
After wire cage - birds: 0; people: all the berries.