Little Pine Protection

Recently my husband and I planted small pine trees along our front barbed-wire fence. We wrapped chicken wire around the trees to protect them, but unfortunately the wire catches the strings on our weedeater and girdles them around our trees.

We found that vegetable cans with the lids removed and placed around the trunks work much better at protecting the little pines, plus the cans serve as catch basins when watering. Paint the cans [the color of terra-cotta] or green to make them look like small flower pots.

BARBARA A. SANTHUFF
Belleview, Missouri