BirdBlock Ross Foot Pond Netting (4 Pack 14 feet x 45 feet)

Bought to keep the rabbits from eating my kale (caught a rabbit chowing down). Also, to keep out the squirrels, groundhog, chipmunks, and raccoon. Works great (so far, it's been a week). Wish it was a bit heavier and less floppy, but it's keeping the critters out.

I have some very large old blueberry bushes planted close together and so I bought two packages of netting. Thanks to all the great reviews/comments, I knew to plan carefully before trying to put the netting over the bushes to avoid massive snags. (It does snag on everything.) First, I had to lash the two lengths of netting together to make a double-wide swath. ( I bought some plastic fishing net repair needles through Amazon.com for this.) I made a frame with short rebar pounded into the ground and 1/2" wide PVC pipes arched between the rebar. I then used the suggestion of another reviewer to cover the bushes with plastic sheeting first before applying the net. (I bought a painter's plastic sheet for this.) Then, two of us laid out the (now huge) netting on the floor and folded it lengthwise for ease of carrying and placing, and we carefully carried it high, placed it, and unfolded it, on top of the plastic-covered bushes. We then were able to slip the plastic sheeting out by having one person hold the net on the side and the other person pull on the plastic. The netting has worked great at keeping the birds out - I have been able to harvest about 3 times the blueberries I have in past years without the netting. It seems very durable and I plan to put it up again next year. My one very sad regret is that two small birds (sparrow-like) have died by getting stuck in the netting. I didn't find them until they were partially decomposed. Their heads were stuck in the small squares of netting. I feel horrible and need to figure out how to prevent this from happening again.

Love the product and have recommended it already to many of my friends.It use this bird netting to cover my young blueberry bushes. It works perfectly. Not even the two storms we have had since it installed the netting, blew it off. I am very happy with this product.However, special attention should be given to how you place the sections, which hang over your frame. I did it wrong. I merely stretched the net over my lattice fence elements and left it at that. I certainly did not want to trim off pieces; after all, I hope that the berry bushes will grow taller.Unfortunately a black racer snake must have decided to take the “shortcut through the netting”, and wiggled herself more and more into the netting. She strangled herself. I regret this because these snakes are excellent natural pest control, they hunt mice.Having learned from this I now roll up the extra netting material so that is not going to happen again. Besides that it is sad that the snake strangled herself, it is also really unpleasant, discovering a 4 foot dead snake in the morning, especially when one is still a little tired and does not recognize that the snake is dead, after first glance.Gisela Hausmann, author & blogger

This worked extremely well at keeping the birds away from the fruit on our plum and peach trees. Although some birds did learn to get at the fruit by flying in from underneath. My hope was to bundle and tie the netting around the base of the tree to prevent this, but I couldn't. I couldn't because the mesh of the netting catching on anything and everything. The mesh catches on every twig end. The mesh catches on every little nub on every branch. And just when you think you're making some headway trying to get a section untangled, you'll discover that the mesh has also caught on two shirt buttons, your watch band and your belt buckle. So I eventually lost all patience at getting the netting positioned so that I could bundle and tie it around the base of the tree.Hopefully, all your fruit will ripen at the same time, as you'll even have almost as much trouble trying to get the netting off the tree; that you'll never attempt to put it back on to protect unripe fruit. As I was trying to remove it, I couldn't let any section that I had previously untangled sag anywhere else, or a new battle would ensue (it was even snagging with things on the ground).I do like the way the netting performs though, so next year I'll try either of these experiments below.Experiment 1: Slide a large plastic sheet over the tree. Then slide the netting over the plastic and secure one side of the netting. Slide the plastic sheet out from under the netting on the side that isn't secured.Experiment 2: Buy two bottles of wine. Serve the wine to 3 invited friends. Secure each corner of a netting sheet to a long pole. Have all 4 people hold the poles high with the netting stretched tight. Walk and position the netting so it is directly over the tree as I want it. Drop the poles. Pray that the netting landed where it was supposed to!

I use these to put up screens to keep my cats from jumping off the deck. The net is strong, but so fine it's almost invisible. That is not true of other brands I've worked with. A +

I would probably give it just two stars as something to put over fruit trees and tomatoes and such because the vines and branches grow through the holes in the net, then I can't remove the net or even lift it up to harvest without damaging the plant. However, I would give it five stars as a cover for my poultry pens to keep chicken and guineas from flying out. I put them together with hay string and/or zip ties and stretch them over the top. They are very light weight but easily strong enough to keep chickens and guineas in and hawks out. As a bonus I've had two copper heads kill themselves for getting tangled up in the net. A neighbor told me she also had a snake die in this kind of net. The bad news is the snakes often ruin part of the net before dying.