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I need your opinion on this. By feeding birds and squirrels aren't you inviting them to hang around your garden. My experience has been that they are never satisfied.
I need your opinion on this. By feeding birds and squirrels aren't you inviting them to hang around your garden. My experience has been that they are never satisfied.
Last year was to be my best crop of blueberries yet and they all mysteriously started disappearing off the bush - before they were even completely ripe!)
We have the same thing happen with our plum tree every year. The only difference being that in our case they leave half-eaten fruit on the tree.
Growing fruit is an invitation to birds and I've yet to find a way to keep them away. If you find a solution I'd love to know about it.
I had the same problem and the only thing that I have found to work is a holographic iridescent tape called " Bird-X Irri Tape " - available from Amazon - which as it causes the birds to become disorientated and confused by the shimmer of the holographic iridescent material and also makes a noise when the wind blows that they find threatening - as well as a sound that they apparently find extremely irritating - does appear to help in keeping them away from my fruit or at least it has done for the past ten years - so long as there is a slight breeze.
We have the same thing happen with our plum tree every year. The only difference being that in our case they leave half-eaten fruit on the tree.
Growing fruit is an invitation to birds and I've yet to find a way to keep them away. If you find a solution I'd love to know about it.
Well, I can tell you that netting won't work. My friend tried that and the birds would get under it and then wouldn't be able to get out! I plan on building a screened "greenhouse" for things I want to protect from birds and moths. In fact, anything that can self pollinate will live in it full time.
That would work for my fruiting bonsai trees, but not for a huge tree like the plum tree in our garden. If we're still in this house next summer I might try the tape that gata montes mentioned. I just wish that the birds would share instead of taking everything for themselves.
You can get the same effect (supposedly) hanging reflective things around your garden (like old CDs). My mother had a bunch of things like that around her yard, not sure how effective it was. My blueberry bush is still small and in a pot, so I'll just have to move it once it sets fruit.
I read about that once before. My problem is that I'm in South Africa, and the postage from Amazon costs more than the products do. I once tried to see if I could find a stockist here, but was unsuccessful. Now that you've reminded me, I'll have to try again.
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