Comments on: Save Your Berries From the Hungry Birds http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/ thrifty and creative | home and garden | ideas and experience Sat, 12 May 2012 21:10:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Hypertufa Gardener http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/#comment-1391 Hypertufa Gardener Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:55:51 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/#comment-1391 I love the article! I know I have problems with birds not only eating my berries and grapes but my fish in my pond as well. Netting is useful and has worked for me but a lot of those things like you say can be unattractive in your garden. Netting was the only way to stop mine. It's funny my wife just told me about the snake idea like a month ago and now I see it here. She actually heard it from a local farmer around her but it was meant for plants it was for keeping them birds from ripping up their garbage bags at the road on garbage day. Like you said they are afraid of snakes so what they did was put rope by the bags on it and around it and the black birds never touch them. It's a very cool idea and I will give it a try here too for both garbage and my garden. I have never seen white strawberries before. This is the first for me. Do they taste exactly the same as red strawberries really? I love your blog, very informative and I will keep coming by. Sincerely, Jamie Boyle The Goldfish Guy I love the article! I know I have problems with birds not only eating my berries and grapes but my fish in my pond as well. Netting is useful and has worked for me but a lot of those things like you say can be unattractive in your garden. Netting was the only way to stop mine.

It’s funny my wife just told me about the snake idea like a month ago and now I see it here. She actually heard it from a local farmer around her but it was meant for plants it was for keeping them birds from ripping up their garbage bags at the road on garbage day. Like you said they are afraid of snakes so what they did was put rope by the bags on it and around it and the black birds never touch them. It’s a very cool idea and I will give it a try here too for both garbage and my garden.

I have never seen white strawberries before. This is the first for me. Do they taste exactly the same as red strawberries really?

I love your blog, very informative and I will keep coming by.

Sincerely,

Jamie Boyle
The Goldfish Guy

]]> By: HowToMe http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/#comment-1390 HowToMe Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:55:19 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/#comment-1390 We grow a row of blueberries and have heard that if the birds become a problem that the garden hose "snake" is the way to go. This post fascinated me. Thank you for the time you put into it. :-) We grow a row of blueberries and have heard that if the birds become a problem that the garden hose “snake” is the way to go. This post fascinated me. Thank you for the time you put into it. :-)

]]> By: Aaron Stroud http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/#comment-1389 Aaron Stroud Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:33:02 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/#comment-1389 We'll be starting off small, so it shouldn't be too difficult to keep the garden and a few fruit trees surrounded by a fence. We'll make sure there isn't any room to jump in and out of it, because I hear they'll happily hop in if it looks like they can get back out. Unfortunately, we don't have an easy solution like keeping dogs outside. Our dog is a member of the family, so she sleeps inside. The next couple of dogs will be treated the same...but perhaps their urine might keep the deer away? We have neighbors who keep a garden and haven't had problems with deer. We’ll be starting off small, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to keep the garden and a few fruit trees surrounded by a fence. We’ll make sure there isn’t any room to jump in and out of it, because I hear they’ll happily hop in if it looks like they can get back out.

Unfortunately, we don’t have an easy solution like keeping dogs outside. Our dog is a member of the family, so she sleeps inside. The next couple of dogs will be treated the same…but perhaps their urine might keep the deer away? We have neighbors who keep a garden and haven’t had problems with deer.

]]> By: domestika http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/#comment-1388 domestika Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:41:35 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/#comment-1388 Aaron, glad to hear you're planning a garden! As you live in the woods, it's not a bad plan to give some advance thought to dealing with the hungry wildlife... deer, for example. Cute, those white-tailed brothers of Bambi, yes. But don't get me started (again) on the eating habits of those bold deer!! Aaron, glad to hear you’re planning a garden! As you live in the woods, it’s not a bad plan to give some advance thought to dealing with the hungry wildlife… deer, for example. Cute, those white-tailed brothers of Bambi, yes. But don’t get me started (again) on the eating habits of those bold deer!!

]]> By: Aaron Stroud http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/#comment-1387 Aaron Stroud Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:16:08 +0000 http://domestikgoddess.com/save-your-berries-from-the-hungry-birds/#comment-1387 Great post! My wife and I are looking forward to starting our first garden next year. We're going to start small, but we have plenty of space to expand (a handful of acres...) The <em>white strawberries</em> sound particularly exciting. I just gave our somewhat local nursery a quick search and they have '<a href="http://www.raintreenursery.com/catalog/producttype.cfm?producttype=STRA" rel="nofollow">white alpine strawberries</a>', yellow ones, and several other varieties! Great post! My wife and I are looking forward to starting our first garden next year. We’re going to start small, but we have plenty of space to expand (a handful of acres…) The white strawberries sound particularly exciting. I just gave our somewhat local nursery a quick search and they have ‘white alpine strawberries‘, yellow ones, and several other varieties!

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