BIRDS

[Smart Red]

Don't you hate to think you're being outsmarted by a bird? I've used CD's, pie pans, scare crow, snakes (rubber) in the tree, 30 foot blasting water cannon, and huge balloons of Micky and Minnie Mouse bobbing in the tree tops all to no avail. The migrant cedar waxwings stop by every year to swipe my sweet cherry harvest.

I'm good at leaving two other trees for their feeding, but, no, they are greedy little pterodactyls and take all the fruit.

 

[Nyboy]

Red a trick cherry growers use is to plant mulberry tree near cherry. They both ripen at same time, birds prefer mulberry to cherry.

 

[so lucky]

I wondered how cherries are ever harvested, when birds like them so well. I guess mulberries have a use after all.

 

[Smart Red]

But, but, but there are mulberry trees all over the property! These birds are migrants. They move North following their cherry harvest and leave the rest of the fruits for native fauna.

 

[Nyboy]

Trees have to be next to each other. mulberry leaves make good food for livestock too.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Don't you hate to think you're being outsmarted by a bird? I've used CD's, pie pans, scare crow, snakes (rubber) in the tree, 30 foot blasting water cannon, and huge balloons of Micky and Minnie Mouse bobbing in the tree tops all to no avail. The migrant cedar waxwings stop by every year to swipe my sweet cherry harvest.

I have not even looked yet this morning. It rained last night. I was thinking of filling a black sack with leaves or something about the size of my cat, and put some white on it for his face and just sit out there. The birds hate him. When he is outside the birds fuss and fuss at him. I would have a fit about the cherry harvest.

 

[so lucky]

What a beautiful kitty! Yes, a replica in the garden might work.

 

[thistlebloom]

Oooh, what a cute face your cat has GWR.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

Well they are BACK. Last year I ended up putting string on stakes across the top of the rows of peppers and tying white blacks bags that blew in the wind and moved around. It seemed to stop them. The peppers did grow back. This year I have only put out tomatoes, cabbage, collards and kale and they have attacked some of the tomatoes. Two of them look like little sticks. You can see the pieces of tomato branch and leaves on the ground and a few cabbage leaves pulled off. It is probably a good thing I am planting late.

 

[ducks4you]

Try putting out used cat litter next to your plants. I heard somebody did that at the entrance of vole holes and they left.