Any replacements for bird netting?

[cjpines]

We covered our berry patch with PVC pipes and bird netting over the top and sides.
Working with bird netting is the pits. Does anyone know of anything else we can use besides this product for keeping birds out of the berries?

 

[iwiw60]

If you use tall garden stakes and then plop a tin can and/or mason jar on top of it and THEN drap your netting it should be much easier to handle...won't slip down off your stakes...just thinkin' ....... always a bad thing for a 70 year old!!

 

[cjpines]

If you use tall garden stakes and then plop a tin can and/or mason jar on top of it and THEN drap your netting it should be much easier to handle...won't slip down off your stakes...just thinkin' ....... always a bad thing for a 70 year old!!

Good idea, now how to get the darn net unraveled? Hum!

 

[vehve]

If you use tall garden stakes and then plop a tin can and/or mason jar on top of it and THEN drap your netting it should be much easier to handle...won't slip down off your stakes...just thinkin' ....... always a bad thing for a 70 year old!!

In my opinion thinking is to be encouraged regardless of age

Poles from an old dome tent might work too. My idea is to cover our bushes with flimsy net and hope that the neighbors uncovered bushes are an easier target.

 

[cjpines]

In my opinion thinking is to be encouraged regardless of age

Poles from an old dome tent might work too. My idea is to cover our bushes with flimsy net and hope that the neighbors uncovered bushes are an easier target.

Hello, Finland. That's so funny, but who knows it may work. Ha!

 

[iwiw60]

In my opinion thinking is to be encouraged regardless of age

Poles from an old dome tent might work too. My idea is to cover our bushes with flimsy net and hope that the neighbors uncovered bushes are an easier target.

Here's a pic of what I mean:

 

[vehve]

Hello, Finland. That's so funny, but who knows it may work. Ha!

Tervehdys, Yhdysvallat!

We lost half of our currants before realizing that we had a bird problem. Now the bushes are covered with a hideous green net, and I haven't seen the birds in our yard as much anymore. So it seems they've taken to vandalizing the neighbors bushes as intended.

 

[vehve]

Here's a pic of what I mean:

Yeah, that's a nice way to keep the net from tangling into the bushes or ripping on the poles. If you lift the net into place with the poles before driving them to the ground, it should be a pretty easy install too.

 

[cjpines]

Tervehdys, Yhdysvallat!

We lost half of our currants before realizing that we had a bird problem. Now the bushes are covered with a hideous green net, and I haven't seen the birds in our yard as much anymore. So it seems they've taken to vandalizing the neighbors bushes as intended.

Oh no!

 

[cjpines]

Yeah, that's a nice way to keep the net from tangling into the bushes or ripping on the poles. If you lift the net into place with the poles before driving them to the ground, it should be a pretty easy install too.

That's very clever, thanks for the picture.