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  • From: "William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Cherry Tree Lunacy
  • Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:16:40 -0500


No cats to patrol the berries? I've used Mylar scare-tape in trees, along
with a seed feeder nearby with good results for birds - also always have some
bright red non-crop berries growing.


Cats would be worse pests than the birds, I'd think, and I don't like them running loose in town. Robins don't eat seeds, so a feeder doesn't help there, and I haven't noticed much problem with seed-eating species on my fruit. (Although, come to think of it, it was cardinals that cleaned out my few grapes last year, so maybe I should fill up my feeders again, after all.)

None of the scare-tape kind of stuff (homemade versions) have worked for me, but that might be partly because robins are so tame. It didn't work on the cardinals last year, either. But perhaps it keeps away more wary birds? I suppose it couldn't hurt to put it up again, just in case. Non-crop berries? I'm planting nothing I can't eat, but if everything starts producing, I'll probably have more than the critters and I can eat, together!

Yes, that squirrel spray sounds interesting. None of my squirrels can really be hungry (I feed them peanuts to keep them full, though it hasn't kept them out of the strawberries), so you wouldn't think it would take much to discourage them.

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)


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