POYEE Garden Netting for Bird Green Net Provide Better Protection for Vegetables and Fruit Trees (13FT X 50FT)

Well, I did realize that spending $20 on netting to get maybe $8 worth of blackberries might not be worth it, but I thought "Well, I can re-use this for other things, too". And sure it seems to be keeping the mockingbirds off of my bumper crop of blackberries, but it wasn't without a lot of aggravation. The net came rolled up and well packaged. But I had difficulty unrolling it because the ends are unfinished and therefore the net snagged on itself constantly. The netting itself is very fine... like the "threads" are about 0.2 mm in size, but still very strong. This means that they snag on everything--any microscopic crevice, edge, or protrusion--even itself, and it was an ordeal getting that net over the blackberry bushes without destroying them in the process. Maybe if I had three other people up on ladders to help hold all the four corners and we could have just lowered the net onto the bushes, but it was just me. ... in the high heat and higher humidity, wrestling with a 26-foot net. Ugh. This morning, every time I lifted the net to get at the berries it would re-snag on the berries and leaves. Maybe it should be draped over a frame that's over the berries, but do I look Bob Vila with a $1,000 production budget and a staff of 20 to do the work for me? No. I do not. Also while harvesting, I began to think about how I'd just created a wonderful spider habitat. Ruh-roh. The icing on the cake is that I have an absent-minded husband who doesn't pay attention and who just weed-whacked right through the net as if it wasn't there, and then blamed his deuteranomaly for making it it "invisible". Um, that's not how it works. The net is very, VERY strong, however, as we're unable to pull it out of the weed-whacker, and so it's going to require a full disassembly requiring a tool we don't have. Overall the net is lightweight, well-packaged, and very strong. But it snags very easily and is likely better used for things like trees or draped over a frame than for blackberry bushes.[Edit: The holes are just big enough and the net just strong enough that a mockingbird can get its head through the holes and strangle itself to death while trying to get free. In the process it got a lot of its feathers and legs caught in the net, too. I wasn't able to untangle it and had to cut the dead bird out of the net. I read the reviews and customer questions before I bought this net, and they all said birds weren't a problem. I wanted the birds off my blackberries, not dead. I'm going to drop the rating by one star.]

If you look closely at this product, it is basically hundreds of 50 foot plastic "threads," connected together at regular alternating intervals by a small melt-point or plastic "weld."Is it 50 feet long? Well, yes! But if you remember a bit from your high school science classes, you will realize that these threads are going to be most "rested" when they lay together, almost like a thick rope. When you start stretching it to it's claimed width, however, you are going to get an elastic effect.So can you stretch this to it's claimed 13 feet width? Well, we took two people and stretched it on one end, and yes, we were able to get it to 13 feet with some serious effort. HOWEVER, the elastic effect took over, and it would not retain it's 50 foot length.FURTHERMORE, when we stretched it out to its width, it NECESSARILY lost a significant amount of it's length.So we suddenly realized that, although the claimed size of this product is "technically" correct, it's USEFUL size was more like 7 feet by 25 feet. That's a SIGNIFICANT difference.But this is not my only gripe about this product...It was also incredibly difficult to work with. If I would hang it from the top of a pole, letting the width fall to the ground, even though it was supposed to be "13 feet wide", and the height of the pole was only 7 feet high, it would not quite reach the ground, because of the elastic effect. And so extra stakes and ties were needed, not just for securing, but for countering the elastic nature of the netting.Furthermore, I know there were other reviewers who complained about the birds getting caught in the netting, but, in our experience, those were completely UNDERSTATED. For us it was a daily occurrence. A bird or chipmunk would need to be cut free from the netting almost every single day. And of course, for us (because this project was already too time-consuming due to the difficult time with the netting and surprise "very small" amount of netting that we received), there were some small gaps in places at ground level, and the wildlife had free reign to come and go and eat all our berries at the moment they first became ripe.So for us, this company stole $26 of our money, stole a whole afternoon of 2 adults and 2 tweens as we struggle to make it work, stole all the berries from our 2 berry trees as the birds and chipmunks had their feast, and nearly stole the life of an animal every day during the ripening season.Honestly, if someone gave me this product for free, I would not take it. In fact, I would say that it's inhumane to keep this stored outside on any property that has any kind of wildlife.This netting is, to yard wildlife, as six-pack-rings are to ocean wildlife...a death trap. Especially when you put some berry lure on the other side of it.

This was advertised as 13.5x50ft. It's 10x40ft stretched to the point that the mesh is 1 inch instead of the advertised .4 inches. Now I either have to take the loss since it did not cover what I needed it to or take it all down to return the product. The company should send the amount advertised. Absolutely do not recommend.

Needing something to keep the pests from eating my precious fruits off my fig tree I’ve been growing and anxiously awaiting to eat it’s first ripe fruit, but every time I start to see a sign of fruit, the squirrels snatch it up, before it even ripens! This works great, you get plenty net, and I can finally feel at ease.

Using this to protect recently planted tree against the cicada invasion, due to start in the next weeke or so. We built a light wooden cage around it and stapled double layers of netting to it. Time will tell. In a month or so I try to post the results here

I got this stuff as a roof to my chicken run to keep them from flying out, and it does the trick! It's light, strong, and soft so that if one of them tried to fly into it they would just bounce right off without injury. It is however, quite difficult and tedious to put up over a large area if you are using it like I did. It took me a few days. I recommendusing zip ties to hold it all together. (If you are using this for its intended purpose of narrow garden beds, fear not!) Its not the most durable stuff on the planet though, if you stretch it too much it will rip. It can be ripped with hands. But, if it has enough give to it, you should be good to go.

Perfect netting to cover my blueberry bush from birds and other critters. The green blends in so perfectly you can barely see it. Affixed a few clothes pins to secure it.

The product was as advertised, it worked well, but unless the fruit tree is small, it would help to have option of a 6x6m or a 6x8m mesh, and to have it in white instead of green. White mesh seems to discourage the birds more than the green mesh.

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