Small, light, ball barrier

hardware cloth?

nate

Vinyl siding?

Look in sporting goods department. Plastic tent stakes and some variety of table-tennis nets spring to mind. If they don't have tent stakes long enough, surveyor equipment store will have longer ones, or you could make from wood. They also make a stiff plastic mesh used for erosion control on construction sites- a full-line concrete products company would likely have that, as well as reusable stakes to go with it.

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Sporting goods store. Tennis, vollyball, or badmitten net.

The netting used as a deer barrier would probably work. Stuff is 8 ft high so maybe you could drape top over shrubs and peg bottom down.

I had never heard that term before. I looked for wire mesh in the local Ace Hardware, but didn't find anything that I thought might work. A search on "hardware cloth" turned up all sorts of options. I'll go look at Home Depot and OSH or I can order online. Plastic hardware cloth looks like a good possibility. I can tie it to a few spikes.

Thanks

Plastic lanscape edging and stakes.

Or even redwood bender baord and stakes.

-Zz

As per ZZ's comment

Plastic landscape edging (available from amazon & elsewhere) ~$10 for 20ft roll.... 6" high

Nail / staple to edge of a Trex or wood 1x4. Make some 5' sections.

cheers Bob

1. Cardboard.
2. Foamboard.
3. Stiff wire fencing (used by gardeners to protect plants).

Thanks for all the suggestions. I ended up buying a roll of hardware cloth at OSH. It's 3' x 20' mesh with 1/2" squares. It's painted with a green plastic coating. Works perfectly.

I first tried a roll of rain gutter screen, but it was only 5-6" tall and too flimsy. Some balls would bounce over or even under. The hardware cloths has stopped a few "equator shots". ;-)

Thanks.