releasing the upper portions of the net 3 to allow access to the fallen produce for taller plants such as trees for example today in many home gardens dwarf fruit trees are now being grown in order to save space these are ideally suited for the harvesting method of the present invention while four arms 5 are usually adequate for larger trees additional arms 5 may be necessary in order to insure that fruit from the scaffold i e the main limbs branching from the trunk is properly gathered in a more expensive embodiment of the present invention as illustrated in fig5 and 6 a net 22 having loops not shown at its top and bottom the loops thereof are threadingly engaged over an inner ring 13 having a splice point at 14 and an outer ring 15 having a splice point 16 and are next placed around a plant or tree not shown the splice points 14 16 are engaged fixing the loops onto the rings 13 15 once the above has been accomplished the 34 splice points 34 can be butted together and joined 34 spliced 34 by any suitable means a plurality of legs four being a typical number when assembled are.