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The birds are eating my orange tomatoes!
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07-08-2003, 05:42 AM
Charles Quinn
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The birds are eating my orange tomatoes!
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(mycroftt) wrote:
I put in a couple of plants of orange tomatoes this year and, like the
Sweet 100's, Better Boys, and Early Girls, this has been a banner year
in northern Virginia USA. I am getting record yields for all tomato
varieties.
The problem is the orange tomatoes (I lost the seed packet but I seem
to remember that they are Jubilee's). The top-most fruit are pecked
full of holes. I believe that birds are doing it but I haven't seen
them in the act. They aren't attacking the fruits lower down on the
vine and they don't bother the other varieties at all. Has anyone ever
heard of this before? Maybe I need a scarecrow.
Hang some junk CDs near the plants. Twisting in the wind causes a flashing
light that chases the birds away.
Try this take a CD and allow the sun to hit it and shine the light on a tree
with some birds in the tree. Watch their reaction. When the crows get bad
around here I use this method to chase them away.
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Charles
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The birds are eating my orange tomatoes!