Are my nets too tight?

ljonski

Trying to protect my strawberries now. The two plants at the front have grown outside the raised bed so they have not been netted. As i am now concentrating on the fruit and not the leaves , i am hoping this netting will not strangle the plants and damage the fruit- but am i Wrong?

i constructed it last night but didn't realise it would be so tight!

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thanks

wallbash

i am hoping this netting will not strangle the plants and damage the fruit- but am i Wrong?

Not ideal, lots of growth in such a small place, but I don't think you will be doing to much harm. Any loss in size /damage to the leaves is easily out- weighed by protecting the plants from the birds.
Not going to be easy spotting the ripening fruit.

ljonski

Thanks . I had intially planned on moving them to a larger raised bed nearby, but it hadn't rotted down enough there at the time for me to move them there, en masse. i moved a couple to the larger bed and one of them has been quite successful so far! After this years crop,they will all get moved!

Linda32

Nature always takes over before you have a chance to catch up anyway.

It is to tight in my opinion.I would be inclind to start again.