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| Help, please! I have a female gingko tree in front of my house that is loaded with an unbelievable quantity of smelly fruit. The fruit is the size of a cherry. I need to suspend a net under the tree before the berries fall and are walked on or driven over. Do you know where I might find such netting? (1/4"- 1/2' mesh.) Many thanks for any suggestions. |
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- Posted by cousinfloyd 7 (My Page) on Wed, Sep 4, 13 at 17:40
| Have you ever eaten the nut inside the fruit? I ate some for the first time earlier this year that a friend brought me out of his freezer. I plan to collect some in town this fall. |
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- Posted by larry_gene USDA8b-OregonPDX (My Page) on Wed, Sep 4, 13 at 23:27
| In the long run you will be better off replacing this tree with one of the more modern smaller or columnar ginkgos, non-fruiting. They have become fairly common here in the past 10 years. For now it would be easier placing some covering on the ground than it would be to suspend a net. Falling over-ripe ginkgo fruit could cut/drip through netting upon impact. |
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- Posted by Kippy-the-Hippy 10 Sunset 24 (My Page) on Thu, Sep 5, 13 at 12:30
| Larry, do you have any varieties you can suggest? I find most of the locals carry "Gingko" no variety info. I do not want a fruiting one! |
This post was edited by Kippy-the-Hippy on Sat, Sep 7, 13 at 11:01
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- Posted by larry_gene USDA8b-OregonPDX (My Page) on Thu, Sep 5, 13 at 23:33
| http://wimastergardener.org/?q=gingko , found in a search for ginkgo +"non-fruiting", mentions several varieties. It looks like most named cultivars for landscaping purposes are non-fruiting. And it helps to spell the tree correctly when doing research: Ginkgo, although the above search result is misspelled also. |
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| I noticed a black plastic material with about the size holes you are looking for, at Harbor Freight, not what I was looking for. It looked like it was intended for covering loads moved on an open truck. Al |
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