Fabric Fence

[sunflower-n-ks]

Has anyone used any of it?

http://www.3tproducts.com/shop/pc/vi...?idCategory=38

I wonder how it would hold up to the weather and time. I am thinking it would be easier to handle than wire for temporary fencing inside a perimeter fence. What I need now is to fence the ducks and geese OUT of the garden space, so hopefully it would not have to keep wild critters out of anything. Something that could be easily moved from one place to another as needed.

[Belfrybat]

I've never used this, but have used both plastic and a poly hex netting the kind used to make batting cages). Both held up well for several seasons.

[Shygal]

What kind of posts do you use with that?

[sunflower-n-ks]

They sell posts that are made for it, but I figured I would use rebar cut into the right lengths. If I get some of the fencing, I hope that will work. Maybe a t post where there is extra stress on it?

I was moving the electric net fence this evening, and it is probably made of the same type material. So it should hold up ok.

[fffarmergirl]

Like you, we needed a fence to keep our poultry out of the garden; our dogs keep the other critters out. Last year, we tried bird netting, but it was not heavy enough to hold up to a determined turkey or a dog intent on taking the shortest route between himself and coyotes across the field. Lots of patching and the whole thing in tatters after the winter.

We installed 250' (in 50' rolls) of the pocket fence (green) around our garden this past weekend. It comes with plastic sleeves and caps that will fit over the top of a t-post. You slide the sleeve over the post and then put the plastic cap on. This makes it very easy to slide the pocket in the fence down the post without the material catching on the post. We then zip tied the bottom to hold it in place on the post. There are only enough sleeves and caps to do a 10' spacing; we already had our posts set at 8' spacing so had to get creative. Where one roll ended and the next began, we used a length of 1/2' rebar, slipped a piece of 3/4' pvc over it (to make it easy to slide into the pocket) and zip tied to the t-post that supported the end of the previous roll; used the same method when we terminated at the gates. This gave us enough sleeves and caps to use on all the line posts. The material can be stretched quite a bit to minimize sag betwen posts. The advertising states that there is a pocket every 3", but it is actually a 3" pocket on 6" centers.

The day after we installed the fence, we had 50+ mph winds and it held up fine. No dogs, chickens, or turkeys in the garden,yet.

[sticky_burr]

a little smaller than snow drift fence.. but snow fence grows wild

[jennigrey]

I like that it comes in green.

[fffarmergirl]

Agreed; the orange was a bit bright and out of place for our garden.