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["Doreen Howard" <doreenh@ticon.net>]

Ginda,
I've never had any problems with birds in the raspberries.  Tomatoes and
strawberries are a different story.  I visited my old house in IL last week,
where I left a big patch of Autumn Bliss raspberries.  They had been
neglected (not pruned or fertilized), but the canes were still loaded with
ripe berries, although they were smaller than they should be.  The birds had
not bothered them--even with no humans or a dog around to deter them.  The
canes were so unbothered that there were 100's of over ripe berries on the
ground and untouched.
Doreen Howard
Wisconsin Zone 4b

-----Original Message-----
From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
To: nafex@yahoogroups.com <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Sunday, August 26, 2001 6:59 AM
Subject: [nafex] raspberries, netting, and birds


>What's you experience with birds eating raspberries?  Do you use
>netting?  Do you need to?  Do you have enough that you don't mind
>"sharing".
>
>I have a ten foot row of everbearing fall red raspberries.  Until this
>summer, I protected them from birds eating the berries by covering them
>with bird netting draped on a light structure (which I took down each
>winter.)  This summer, they suddenly shot up to 8' tall, outgrowing my
>6' structure.  I had to pull back the netting because it was interfering
>with growth (and obviously wasn't going to do any good, with the
>fruiting ends up beyond it.)
>
>I was all set to invest in a larger (and expensive) structure from which
>to hang the netting, when I was talking to a fellow gardener in central
>Mass. who said she never had trouble with birds in the raspberries.  She
>said they denuded her cherry tree in 8 hours one day, leaving behind not
>even a single pit, but have not bothered the raspberries.  Having little
>space and being greedy, I want to grow as many raspberries for people in
>the 10' row as possible, but I don't want to waste a lot of money and
>time on protection I don't need.
>
>Thanks,
>Ginda Fisher
>eastern Mass., zone 6
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