When we first put in the raised planting beds, 4’x4’, Marge put strawberriesin half of the first one. The cardinals LOVE strawberries and were having a blast eating the little berries as the appeared on the plants.
So I put some stakes around the 2’x4’ patch and hung some bird net on them.
So that cured the cardinals of their habit of eating our berries.
Then the strawberries decided they needed more room. Their little shoots were going all over the place, planting themselves as they went.
So they’re getting the whole 4’x4’ bed.
But, how to protect them from the cardinals while allowing Marge to get in to tend the patch?
The evil genius in his workshop thought up a plan.
Plotting and planning with his SketchUp program he designed this:
Retiring to his workshop, he built the strawberry cage and installed it on the planting bed, thusly:

Here is a closeup in which the frame and netting are more easily examined
And so, the EG (Evil Genius) could turn his attention to more pressing needs.
-- If a man says something in the forest and there's no woman to hear it, is he still wrong?






















7 comments so far
poroskywood
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posted 31 days ago
This is a product of Good. You should think of changing sides.
-- There's many a slip betwixt a cup and a lip.--Scott
Don "Dances with Wood" Butler
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posted 31 days ago
Yes, I’ve been thinking about that.
It will be a good change!
d
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a1Jim
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posted 31 days ago
Hey Don
Those poor things trapped in a cage LOL good idea nice job
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
papadan
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posted 31 days ago
I don’t see no strawberrys, the birds done got em, huh! LOL
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Don "Dances with Wood" Butler
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posted 31 days ago
They’re under the straw for the Winter.
Speaking of Winter, I got the snow blowerout and made sure it would run.
Winter has a nasty habit of arriving unannounced!
d
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papadan
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posted 31 days ago
Got all them weights mounted on it already?
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Don "Dances with Wood" Butler
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Papadan,
No weights.
That was that cursed tractor. I sold that baby down the road and I’ll be running the walk-behind machine.
d
-- If a man says something in the forest and there's no woman to hear it, is he still wrong?