Dec

20

How do I keep the birds from eating my strawberries?

Filed Under Garden & Landscape 

birds
lil_britches2003 asked:


This year is my first year at attempting strawberries. I wasn’t sure how easy or hard it would be. Not knowing, I only planted three plants and I put them in a planter. In three short weeks, my plants have tripled in size and I’ve gotten strawberries. However, before they have a chance to completely ripen, the birds are eating them before I get to even sample them. How do I keep the birds away?

ANDERSON

Comments

5 Responses to “How do I keep the birds from eating my strawberries?”

  1. daylily on December 21st, 2009 6:35 pm

    Cover them with Remay or netting.

  2. Brett on December 23rd, 2009 8:39 am

    what i can recommend that would help keep them off your strawberry plants is put a bird house nearby but not too close to the plaants…..put some bird feed inside of there. or you can also get some chicken wire or a giants metal screen and wrap it around your strawberry plant and remove and replace it whenever your ready to harvest.

  3. doubletrouble81@ymail.com on December 25th, 2009 11:32 pm

    my mum and my grannie **** having nets and such things around their crops so what they do is they put a stick in the ground, not too high, and tie some ribbons and stuff that would flutter in the wind. They say it scares the birds away better than a scarecrow, I haven’t tried it on my tomatoes yet but the elderly are wise so I believe them..!

  4. Ishtar on December 27th, 2009 4:18 pm

    Put bird netting over the planter. Sometimes a fake snake or model owl in or near the planter will keep them away.

    If you have some old CDs that you don’t mind sacrificing, put a framework around the planter and dangle the CDs on strings over it. The twirling, flashing CDs will confuse the birds. This works for gardening in general - twirly flashy things drive birds away. You know all those tacky little windmill things people put in their flowerbeds? Those were originally developed to keep birds off.

  5. rz8ur4 on December 28th, 2009 12:29 am

    A bowl of red kool-aid has been known to lure them into trying what looks like a giant strawberry. Instead of the real ones.