How can I protect my raspberries and blackberry bushes from pests?
Does anyone have any suggestions other than bird netting for covering raspberry and blackberry bushes ? Thanks
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Here is an article that might help - https://www.gardeners.com/how-to/protecting-berries-from-birds/7532.html
Netting is the best way, but here are some other ideas for keeping the birds away:
https://anoregoncottage.com/how-to-scare-birds-away-from-berries-naturally/
https://www.espoma.com/fruits-vegetables/no-way-blue-jay-keep-birds-from-eating-berries/
Hi Eiieen, this may help,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFIxt7etQWg
Noisemakers, such as radios, are also useful. But the most effective technique is exclusion. Bird netting protects tree fruit and berries if installed two to three weeks before fruit matures. You can also cover maturing corn ears with paper bags, and lay garden fabric over germinating seedlings to foil the birds.
What do you think is getting at them?
How do you install the netting ? I’m finding the berries grow into it and It takes me quite a while removing it each time when I need to pick the berries and then stacking it back down after watching picking takes too long. This is a pictures of what we used this year