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Birds take newly sprouted seeds out of the ground - help
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happyzinnia
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Joined: 24 Apr 2009
Location: Golden Valley, AZ
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| Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 1:35 am Post subject: Birds take newly sprouted seeds out of the ground - help |
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Has anybody ever have Birds take newly sprouted Seeds out of the ground? I am planting for the 3rd time this Year and have Birdblock over the Bed now.
I was blaming the Seeds being old until I saw the Thrasher take my Sprouts. My Hubby made a frame to tie his Tomatoes up which makes a nice Birdperch lol.
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daisybeans
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Location: annapolis md
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| Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 3:52 am Post subject: |
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You need a scarecrow! Or a scarebird!
I remember when I was a kid we would run some string between stakes around the garden and in some of the rows and then tie narrow strips of an old sheet on the strings. When they blew in the breeze, it kept the birds away.
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Gardengirl
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| Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 8:26 am Post subject: |
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We have a couple of raised beds with vegs in. I noticed that some of my baby beets and baby leeks and been pulled out of the ground. Then I saw the culprit one morning, a naughty blackbird. My husband has now put some stakes in all round the edge of the beds and we have put a net over which has stopped the birds getting to the veg.
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dooley
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| Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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I had that problem with cactus wrens when we lived in Arizona. There was a huge prickly pear cactus at the corner of the garden where they built a nest. I didn't net my garden. We threw the net over the cactus so they couldn't get to the nest. Boy, were they mad. dooley
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glendann
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| Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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I see shiny aluminum pans hanging in fruit trees to keep the birds from
the fruit trees.It might work if you hang them from stakes in your beds.
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kuntrygal
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| Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 12:01 am Post subject: |
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Glenda, you took the idea right out of my mind and mouth.  That's what my mother would always do with her fig trees.
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