Any ideas how to keep birds from eating strawberries in the garden?
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You can place a fine mesh net tent over them.
you can also use cheesecloth on top of them
Or get a cat!!
bird netting should do the trick.
pvc pipe cube with no see'um mesh on 5 sides. leave the bottom open for the plants.
Cover them with a netting, that birds can't get to. This would be your only solution. Best wishes, J.
netting is the best way really.
Plastic snake. Move it every few days so the birds think it is alive
Neither netting or 2 feral cats have helped (the cats eat from bowls, leave the birds alone). I bought a tomato cage and put the netting over that. It's easy to move, and it works!
Take some small rocks and paint them to look like strawberries. Put them in the bed long before the berries get ripe. The birds will come down and try to eat the rocks thinking they are berries. By the time the berries are ripe the birds think they are all hard and inedible.