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Re: Protecting strawberries from birds

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At 07:00 PM 3/21/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>I haven't tried it yet but have heard this works well, save the CDs that
>arrive in the junkmail for AOL or Microsoft, or use some crappo game
>ones that you'll never play again. Put a few poles in the strawberry
>patch with a bird cage hook or something similar on them and use them to
>suspend the CDs from. You'll need to put a bit of ribbon or fishline
>through the hole of the CD, knotting both ends together so you can hang
>it, sort of like a necklace or Christmas ornament. The CD will spin in
>the wind and flash brightly, the birds are supposed to be quite annoyed
>by it and will leave the berries alone. 
>
Hi, unfortunately the disk trick didn't work in my fruit trees, the little
rascals bite into every piece of fruit if I don't manage to pick it just as
it starts to ripen. Hope others don't have such determined feathered friends.

Pat
Pat Kolb, Contributing Editor, Low Desert Gardening, Suite 101
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/low_desert_gardening


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