Stark® Tree Guards
Description
Rabbits chew. The sun scalds. In each case, the result is the same: a badly damaged tree. Tree Guards are an easy way to protect the tender bark of young trees.
Light-weight and heavy-duty! These perforated plastic spirals are easy to use and last for years. Apply just after planting – a time when young trees need protecting most. Adjust the coil throughout the year to make sure it hasn’t become too tight against the trunk and to remove any grass that’s grown inside. Avoid hitting tree guards with string trimmers or other lawn equipment, which can decimate a tree guard and girdle trees – a leading cause of tree mortality. Use tree guards in conjunction with our Tree Circles as a foundation for healthy trees!
- 10" in length for columnar trees
- 20" in length for young trees
- 40" in length for larger trees
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Questions & Answers
Try hanging small, reflective wind chimes during the flowering/fruiting season in the lower branches (or any that can be reached by jumping). This is the only thing I've found to deter squirrels from breaking the branches of my young service berry tree while trying to reach the fruit. They need to be small enough that they'll chime/move with the weight of a squirrel grabbing the branch or any nearby ones.
Hi Sandra, We currently have 20" and 40" guards available. This is the height, not the width, of the guard.
Hello Linda! Now that's quite a situation! Most likely, beavers will not like the
tree guard, but it is only about 16 inches tall! Beavers can easily reach above
that to chew your tree. The guard is only usable for 3 to 4 years and then it is too small and has to be removed. Once again, your tree is at risk. I suggest that you purchase 1/2 inch wire "hardware cloth" (it's not 'cloth', it's heavy wire screening), and make a sleeve as tall as you can to cover the young trunk. Wire the cut edges together so it can't open. You may have to make taller ones as your tree grows and you prune out the small limbs that are too close to the ground.
Good luck!
i keep mine on year round. since they are white they do not draw heat from the sun during our very hot summers. they also afford protection from our cute little wild rabbits that devastate mu lilies! i will be purchasing more for our new fruit trees.
I have no reason to think that they would. Keeping deer totally away from the trees with woven-wire fence in 12" circles around the trunk has worked well for me in the past.
Mine have provided protection, but only where they provide coverage. I did have one partial removed from rubbing, but there was no harm to the tree. I now protect my trees with cages.
Michael R. is correct. If you punch a small hole in the connecting ends of each guard and tie them together with a piece of twine that will keep them from separating/sliding apart. There are also 40" length guards available: //www.starkbros.com/products/tools-and-supplies/tree-accessories/stark-tree-guards
Think like a rabbit and a mouse. Mice eat the living tissue just beneath the bark below the snow line and the rabbits eat it above the snow line. Ask yourself how far down, close to the soil each of these critters can get and you will have your answer. Based on my rabbit experience last winter, I am thinking I need to put tree guards on the lower limbs of some trees as well as the trunk.
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Customer Reviews
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I have damage to my apple tree trunk. I was hoping this would fix the situation.
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Deer have chewed on bark on one of my young apple trees. Also I don't want to damage other new trees with seedeater.