Of nots and nets

"The time has come," said Spuds sagely, "Our fruit is forming on the bushes, and we've got to get our cage up." And sure enough we did.  It took us about 4 hours.
The problem was not so much the cage, which went up easily enough, but the netting. Rather than buying proprietary netting fitted to our cage (3m x 2m) we decided to use some bird netting bought from a local garden center, which was just 4m wide.  That meant we had to link it together with cable ties along its length, while leaving enough over to pin down to make sure blackbirds cannot wiggle under.  The netting is elasticated and trying to get it fixed, joined and even would have tried the most patient gardener.  Anyway, the result is that our fruit is now caged, and the cage seems solid enough.  Whether it will keep the birds out is another matter.