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[Dan Nave <nave1@comcast.net>]

Jim, where do you get the plastic cherries?

Dan

On 1/28/2016 9:08 PM, Jim Fruth wrote:
> Sam,
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>    I grow sour cherries and have ZERO bird problems.  Why?  I hang red plastic 'cherries' in the 
> trees and leave them in the tree the whole year around, replacing them as they fade.  Also, I put 
> red painted stones in the strawberries as soon as blooming is finished.  The birds peck on the 
> rocks, hurt their beaks and don't come back.  AND I hang raspberry shaped berry beads around the 
> perimeter of the red raspberry patch as soon as blooming is done. It doesn't work 100% but it 
> helps.  Black berry beads do not work with blackberry and black raspberry and I don't know why not.
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> Jim Fruth
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> -----Original Message----- From: Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 9:16 AM
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> Subject: [nafex] Saving cherries from the birds (Good Fruit Grower)
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> Saving cherries from the birds 
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> Good Fruit Grower
> Cherry growers sometimes feel like they're growing fruit mainly for the birds, but there is new 
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