Davej wrote:
I put a bowl of water out there in the
garden. Will that help?

a bowl may not be very attractive to birds,
they often like broad shallow puddles for
bathing or drinking. if you do have a bird
bath they'll prefer one that is broad and
shallow with an edge they can grip in their
feet.

we've not experienced birds eating the
tomatoes that often, we have bird baths,
but they are not in the gardens near the
tomatoes. the only thing we want them to
be attracted to the gardens is for getting
the bugs. so we do not feed the birds here
other than what the plants drop as seeds
and the bugs.

we had a few extra tomato plants this
year and put them outside the fenced garden
and they are near one of the bird baths.
the deer have munched on a few of them
already coming in to get a drink. it will
be interesting to see if we get any kind
of harvest from those plants this year.
last year we had a few tomato plants in
about the same area but the deer and birds
left them alone other than using them as a
spot to perch.


songbird