PROTECT FRUIT FROM POSSUMS

Apples are in season, and while you wait for your crop to ripen, you can be sure possums will have their beady eyes on it too! My parents have hit upon a simple solution to keep their fruit safe by rigging up a low electric fence around their trees. So far it’s been 100 per cent successful. To guard two heavily-laden trees, my father used a solar-powered, portable electric fence unit (bought from PGG Wrightson) and attached the electric tape to wooden fence batons with sections of garden hose acting as insulators. When the fruit was still forming, the guards around the trunks were enough, but as