How about a net covered 'frame' assembly made out of PVC pipe and
fittings. Probably wouldn't even need to glue anything You could just
lift the whole thing off to work in it... or maybe 2 5 foot sections
would make it easier to move around. In the off season, you could pull
it apart for easy storage.

Horizontal 10' sections might sag a bit much...

HD has some pretty good bird netting... in my store it's hidden outside
with the plants and garden stuff, and none of the employees know about
it. It's black in color, in plastic bags and as I recall comes in two
different package sizes. I forget what the bags looked like... sorry.

Good Luck!

Erik

In article ,
Grant Erwin wrote:

We grow strawberries, and the birds get a lot more than we do if we don't net
the beds. This year Karen built a raised strawberry bed about 3x10', and she
now
wants to put bird netting over it. It has to be something you can also take
the
netting off of so you can work on the bed, pick berries, etc.

I was thinking of a sort of quonset hut arrangement with some long skinny
whippy
bendy things bent into half-hoops over the bed, and we could just lay the
bird
net over the frame. I was thinking of something like the stuff they make
mobile
ham antennas out of. Only problem is I don't have a clue where to buy it.
Green
bamboo would be nice too, if it will bend in a 3' diameter, doubt it would. I
was thinking of heavy electrical wire, but I don't have any, and 100' or so
of
say 6 gauge copper would run some do-re-mi.

Ideas?

Grant Erwin
Kirkland, Washington