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  • From: "Mark or Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Jim's Red Beads for Birds
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:41:59 -0500

Jim,

I read about you tricking the birds in Pomona and got a chuckle. It's a
clever idea. But how do you keep from picking up the loose "berry" wires in
lawnmower tires?

Mark Angermayer
Zone 5 Kansas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@uslink.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 7:23 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Jim's Red Beads for Birds


> Hey Richard,
> Beads are beads by whatever color you want and they have a hole in
them
> for stringing them up - I use a wire and hang them like a Christmas tree
> bulb. I buy them at the local craft supply store here in town buying as
> true to size as possible for the berries I want to mimic. For most fruits
I
> use round (spherical) beads and a special bead, called "berry beads" that
> look strikingly like a raspberry for the raspberry patch.
> I remove the beads just when the first fruit is ready for harvesting.
> Visitors to my garden/orchard are always fooled by the beads expressing
> surprise when they just picked a fake berry. Hey, it fools
> people...................and birds.
> --
>
> Jim Fruth
> Brambleberry Farm
> Pequot Lakes, MN
> www.bberryfarm.com
> Jams, Jellies and Syrups
> (218)568-8483 [Store]
> (218)831-7018 [My cell]
>
>
>
>
> on 6/25/06 6:38 PM, nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org at
> nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
> Hey Jim;
>
> Can you please describe these red beads so that I may try some?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Richard Murphy
>
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