The birds cleaned off my whole crop last year and they got my friends crop too. My friend's have a commercial strawberry acreage and the honeyberries were along one side of a strawberry patch: the birds ate every berry off of 50 honeyberries and didn't touch the strawberries. They don't spray so that can't be the difference, maybe the earliness of the
honeyberries brings in the birds. We are both netting our bushes this year... more news on that to follow in a few months.
Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB
--- On Thu, 2/25/10, John S <
swim_at_svc@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: John S <
swim_at_svc@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] honeyberries/ hascap
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Received: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 8:00 PM
> Evelyn,
>
> I haven't had much problems with the birds and
> these. The leaves appear to hide the fruit fairly
> well, perhaps the birds just haven't figured it out
>
yet. One thing that may help is that all my small
> fruits, except honeyberries, are under birdnet or
> screens. This may have some training effect on them
> that the tempting fruits cannot be reached in my yard.
> I've had robins demonstrate their frustration.
> Also, there is a large, small fruited, white fruited
> mulberry tree about 2o yards away. They fruit over a
> fairly long period of time and do appear to distract some of
> the birds.
>
>
>
> --- On Thu, 2/25/10, EVelyn Mellott
> <
e.mellott@xplornet.ca> wrote:
>
> From: EVelyn Mellott
> <
e.mellott@xplornet.ca>
> Subject: [NAFEX] honeyberries/ hascap
> To:
nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 2:36 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> I don't think late
> frosts really are any problem
> with the honeyberries, last year we had one of the latest
> and coldest springs,
> they seem to tolerate the cold quite well. But I
> agree on the lack of
> pollinators that early in the spring. The other
> major problem are
> the birds getting the fruit before you. They are
> early and you should be
> checking them often because their fruiting process is quite
> short, and a remay
> cover is probly a good idea.The birds and possibly
> squirrels will clean them
> right off. I llove the fruit in
> pies,muffins,jam,oatmeal
>
porridge after the fruit is cooked it is very tasty.
> Raw, the ones I have
> collected fruit from have a tart side,and I do sorta have a
> sweet
> tooth.
>
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