permaculture

[trevor william johnson <john2116@msu.edu>]

if you have the infrastructure and your scale is not acres upon acres  
i would suggest transplants.  it takes quite a bit of space but you  
can get an early harvest and a higher price of your selling to  
market. if thats unpalatable for you then noisemakers, flashing/ 
reflective things will reduce the seed loss.

trevor
On Apr 2, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Margaret & Steven Eisenhauer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was wondering if anyone could help with a bird problem. Last  
> season I
> planted Zia Maze and the crows dug up and ate just about every  
> seed.  I am
> considering using bird netting to keep them off the planting area  
> until the
> corn is a couple inches high.  Problem is the mesh is expensive and  
> time
> consuming to manage.  I know there are products to treat the seed  
> to make it
> unpalatable but I wonder how that would effect whether I could call  
> the crop
> organic and how the treatment would affect the soil and crop  
> biology. Any
> ideas?
>
> Cheers!
>
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