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Man the barricades

22/11/2013

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By Linda Gordon

To net or not to net? That is the question. Every fruit season we have the same quandary: the netting is awkward to use but the crop is vulnerable. ​

And there is the scale of the exercise. We have about 40 fruit and nut trees in our medium sized garden: 11 apples and two crab apples, three apricots, a fig, pomegranate, persimmon, two plums, one cherry, three peach, two nectarines ... and so on. 


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Orchard co-op thinks big

2/11/2013

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By Linda Gordon

“We’re just a bunch of locals who want to plant some trees,” says Phillip Island orchard co-op member Lars Olsen.


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