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Plant Protector
Description
Trade Names
Seed Protectors
Plastic Netting
Light (6 mil.) and heavy (12 mil.) netting
Stretch Netting
Elastic stretch netting (15 mil.)
“C” netting, Tiller net
Wide-Mesh Netting
½ × ½ inch mesh
Bird Netting
Polyethylene knitted netting; diamond, square, or hexagonal mesh
Avigard® Crop Net
Collar and Screen
Direct Seed Plant Shelter
Collar is a one-quart cottage cheese container (bottom removed);
window screen attached to collar with plant tie or wire
Direct Seed Plant Shelter
Two plastic parts quickly assembled in the field; 11 to 24 inches in
height; 2.5 inches in diameter.
Blue-X® Direct Seed
Plant Shelters
Seedling Protection Devices
Milk Carton
Cut top and bottom off used milk carton; quart or half gallon size
Rigid Seedling Protector Tube
Diamond-shaped mesh tube of flexible, UV-inhibited photobiodegrad-
able polyethylene and polypropylene material; 18 to 36 inches by 3.25
to 4 inches in diameter
Vine Grow Tube
Height 24 to 60 inches ; diameter 3.5 inches; side opening for easy
removal and reuse
Plantra® JumpStart Vine
Grow Tubes
C-style Tree Tube
Made of recycled polyethylene; comes in heights 12 to 60 inches;
about 3.5 inches in diameter; expandable diameter by coupling protec-
tors together
Jump Start™ C-style
Treeshelters;
Protex® Pro/Gro Solid
Tube Tree Protectors
O-style Tree Tube (Tuley Tube)
Preassembled, twin-walled, translucent tube made of UV-stabilized,
recycled polyethylene; heights from 12 to 72 inches; diameter ranges
from 3.5 to 4.5 inches.
Plantra® Treeshelters
Jump Start™ O-style
Treeshelters
Tubex® Tree Shelter
4-inch-diameter, twin-walled translucent tube made of UV-stabilized
polypropylene copolymer; 24, 36, 48, and 60 inches in height
Tubex® Tree Shelters
Blue-X® Treeshelter
Partially transparent blue-tinted polyester film (PET); 15 to 54 inches
in height; 3.5 inches in diameter composed of a single sheet of blue
plastic film inserted into a blue-tinted poly sleeve
Blue-X® Treeshelters
Tree Enclosures
Circular Wire Tree Enclosure
Circular enclosure of steel wire (varying sizes of wire grid) held up by
wooden or steel poles
Game-Deterrent Fencing
7-foot- and 8-foot-high 1-inch mesh; lightweight, UV-stabilized polyeth-
ylene; comes in 100-foot rolls
8-foot X-treme Deer
Barrier®
Tree Bark Protectors
Tree Bark Protector
White, opaque, twin-walled corrugated tube that is slit lengthwise and
coiled around trunk; 18 to 48 inches in height
Plantra® Tree Bark
Protector
Tree Guard
UV-protected white plastic coil
Ross® Tree Gard®
Vinyl Tree Guard
Tree Wrap
Waterproof crinkled kraft tree paper
Tree Trunk Protector
Heavy-duty plastic, 9-inch-tall protector
ArborGuard+®Tree Trunk
Protector
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