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The plastic fencing should work well though I don't think it would last too many winters but I do have some of the wire chicken fencing in my back yard near the shed.
I'm thinking straw would be better than leaves as in not collapsing so much or maybe I could do a straw/leaf mixture. I sure don't look forward to cleaning straw up in spring though.
Here's a link (I hope it's okay if I put it here) about using a double rose cone... for roses but I think it would work for palms too. This link is from public television in Wisconsin. (I hope some enthusiastic souls are growing palms there as well.)
Ron is straw the one that is full of weed seeds? I guess it dosen't really matter to much in the winter. I use salt marsh hay and think it work quite well. I only have maples in my yard no oaks to collect the leaves.
Bill, the straw you mentioned or rye straw are both much lower in seed content. Unfortunately I can only find wheat straw right now and it's loaded with wheat seed heads and perhaps more.
Oak leaves are great if you can find them. As for me I've got a huge Manitoba Maple in my back yard that supplies the neighbourhood with leaves.
Yea Bill,you definitely need to keep the leaves dry,as you can tell from my cages I had the plants covered with a "rose" cover,then leaves,there were leaves stuffed up into the cones as well.What I found when I opened the cages up was that moisture had gone around the r-cones and had formed a shield of frozen water around the outside of the dry leaves under the cone,pretty neat.
