What did you do in the garden today?

For anyone with fruit trees/vines.. How do you keep the birds from getting your cherries, grapes, apples, etc?

Do shiny objects or streamers work? The plastic owls? Scarecrows?

I'm trying to avoid having to put netting on the trees. Mostly because I know it will be a real pain in the butt to get on and off.
 
For anyone with fruit trees/vines.. How do you keep the birds from getting your cherries, grapes, apples, etc?

Do shiny objects or streamers work? The plastic owls? Scarecrows?

I'm trying to avoid having to put netting on the trees. Mostly because I know it will be a real pain in the butt to get on and off.
they make little i guess you could call them plastic socks / netting that you actually put over each fruit / fruit bunch, it just stretches over that I have used in the past.

If the birds are causing a whole lot of damage and you just want them gone period, Putting down a rat trap works too, one or two of them get snapped and the rest of them see that happening and they stay the hell away. Bait it with gummy candy's or something. Sometimes you get rats / moles too which is also a good thing. Before doing this, check with your local laws .vs. what kind of bird you want gone to be sure you don't run afoul of any stupid laws designed to protect seagulls and other 'migratory species', which are basically rats with wings.

With that, black birds, starlings, little birds are actually very GOOD to eat. You don't get a hell of a lot of meat, just the breast basically but fry them nuggets up and it's real good. they are a zip to clean too, literally a few seconds, get your fingers up and scoop out, you are done.

Aaron
 
🌱🌱:D🌱🌱 Last fall I brought our Basil plant in a pot inside the house so it would not freeze and die on the outside deck. We use the fresh basil as seasoning on some of our cooking dishes and it is wonderful to have that Basil plant to pick a few fresh leaves off whenever we want. Especially in the winter here in northern Minnesota.

This morning, my wife pinched off a little bit of the top of the basil plant so it won't go to seed. I told her to throw the leaves into our "chicken bucket" and I would bring it out to the coop later today. I just came back from the coop as I lock the girls up for the night. I tossed the basil leaves into the chicken coop. Boy, does the coop smell great! At least to me. I hope the chickens like the smell of Basil!

FWIW, I use paper shreds as deep bedding in my chicken coop. Normally, there is no smell at all with the deep bedding. However, the fresh Basil leaves in the coop really made everything smell really nice.
 
Are you sure he came from there? If not, you just could have just killed him. You said he was starving when you got him, what makes you think he'll suddenly find food now? The foxes thank you though.

Aaron
I live in a residential area, and there are no wild animals except cats. Also, he was very tame, someone must have carried and babied him a lot. I can hear him crowing a few house away from my back yard. There are houses in my back yard with a different street front.
 
I have so many trees the birds taking some haven't mattered.
How many trees and vines will you have?
We have 2 Montmorency cherries, 3 apples, and several old wild apples. Only the wild apples are bearing, as the fruit trees we've planted are only 3-4 years old.

I plant to put in 4-5 grave vines this year. Really want some cherries this year! :fl
 
I decided to purchase it today with a $40 of coupon and 0% interest for 6 months on the credit card.

I'll check out your blog for upgrade for sure.

I was feeling energetic today and got the ground leveled and a treated 4x4 foundation built. I'm going to pound 30" fencing stakes nearly all the way into the ground and screw them to the 4x4's to anchor it to the ground. I an glad K looked at the instructions, because the dimensions of the foundation are very important since there are small overhangs in the front and back that need to hang down over the edge off the foundation.

The location of the greenhouse is actually where our duck pen was. We lost our ducks to opossum attacks this year - most of our chickens too. We decided we we'll get more chickens but not ducks so no need for the duck pen. This allows the greenhouse to be just a 4ft from the shed, but still plenty of sun from the South and West and some morning sun from the East even though the shed is to the East. Tge she'd had electric though so it will be easy to bring electric into the greenhouse with a heavy duty cord. The fireside to this position is I'm mucking out 6" of duck mess, mostly straw with poop thats been composting in place. It'll make great compost though - and right to the 3-bin composter it all is going.
 

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