chefcarolyn 2 years, 8 months ago said: Birds eating my garden Any advice? My spinach leaves are being torn off my seedlings.
thepiggs 2 years, 8 months ago said: RE: Birds eating my garden You can get some of the white row cover and lay over the plants/rows. The plants will get air and light but the birds can't get at them. Those naughty birds will also snap the stems of peppers and tomatoes. Be warned.
linebb956 2 years, 7 months ago said: RE: Birds eating my garden We used old cd strung to wave in the wind.. The flashing of the sun on them helps... be ware of a cloudy day! They also have a attachment you can get that goes on your garden hose that is a sensor.. it squirts them. I can not remember where I saw it, it looked like a goose.
mrtnzangel8 2 years, 3 months ago said: RE: Birds eating my garden I used the CD trick over my tomatoes this summer. As far as I know birds never came around them. I wonder if maybe my cat had something to do with it, too? lol
evegpt 1 year, 9 months ago said: RE: Birds eating my garden I have three cats and they simply sit back and watch the birds. They are overfed and over lazy and I don't think a bird has a worry in the world from them. You can sometimes scare them away with those little pinwheels in bright colors..Just place them around in the garden...Now what will keep the cats from using my raised beds for their own personal litter boxes? I have several 4 by 12, raised beds for my square foot garden and they think these boxes were made just for them. I told my DH, we should make a sandbox just for them but he doesn't think they would use it.
trigger 1 year, 7 months ago said: Birds eating my garden Check for snails or slugs, they love the new shoots of many vegetables especially greens. Go to your garden at night an look at the leaves with q flash light.
Snails can be trapped with beer poured into a tuna tin submerged just at ground level. You can sprinkle salt on them and they will shrivel up and die. I spread wood ash around my plants , the silica in the ash is like shards of glass to the naked snails body an they do not like it. Michael
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chefcarolyn 2 years, 8 months ago said:
Birds eating my garden
Any advice? My spinach leaves are being torn off my seedlings.
thepiggs 2 years, 8 months ago said:
RE: Birds eating my garden
You can get some of the white row cover and lay over the plants/rows. The plants will get air and light but the birds can't get at them. Those naughty birds will also snap the stems of peppers and tomatoes. Be warned.
linebb956 2 years, 7 months ago said:
RE: Birds eating my garden
We used old cd strung to wave in the wind.. The flashing of the sun on them helps... be ware of a cloudy day! They also have a attachment you can get that goes on your garden hose that is a sensor.. it squirts them. I can not remember where I saw it, it looked like a goose.
mrtnzangel8 2 years, 3 months ago said:
RE: Birds eating my garden
I used the CD trick over my tomatoes this summer. As far as I know birds never came around them. I wonder if maybe my cat had something to do with it, too? lol
evegpt 1 year, 9 months ago said:
RE: Birds eating my garden
I have three cats and they simply sit back and watch the birds. They are overfed and over lazy and I don't think a bird has a worry in the world from them. You can sometimes scare them away with those little pinwheels in bright colors..Just place them around in the garden...Now what will keep the cats from using my raised beds for their own personal litter boxes? I have several 4 by 12, raised beds for my square foot garden and they think these boxes were made just for them. I told my DH, we should make a sandbox just for them but he doesn't think they would use it.
trigger 1 year, 7 months ago said:
Birds eating my garden
Check for snails or slugs, they love the new shoots of many vegetables especially greens. Go to your garden at night an look at the leaves with q flash light.
Snails can be trapped with beer poured into a tuna tin submerged just at ground level. You can sprinkle salt on them and they will shrivel up and die.
I spread wood ash around my plants , the silica in the ash is like shards of glass to the naked snails body an they do not like it.
Michael