To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] How to keep birds from blueberries/sugar issues
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:30:17 -0700 (PDT)
What does sugar do to the birds? I want to deter them, not kill them.
Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB
--- On Thu, 6/23/11, Richard Moyer <ramoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Richard Moyer <ramoyer@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] How to keep birds from blueberries
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Received: Thursday, June 23, 2011, 5:38 PM
> Jerry,
> See this link from Marvin Pritts, Cornell fruit
> researcher:
>http://www.fruit.cornell.edu/berry/production/pdfs/bbbirds.pdf
> They rate options to netting.
>
> I forget which NAFEX meeting, but I recall the fruit
> researcher
> wondering aloud why more homeowners and small-scale growers
> were not
> spraying sucrose as a bird deterrent. Readily
> available and
> inexpensive.
>
> Richard Moyer
> 1st peach ready today, a PF-1.
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