il Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:32:47 -0800, Antipodean Bucket Farmer ha
scritto:

Hi, Everybody,

It happened again this morning. One of my strawberry
plants had an alllllmost ripe fruit, which would make
my morning treat.

I have seven strawberry plants, so they will soon be
able to yield more than one ripe fruit at a time.

But... Gone! Again!

In a quick search, I couldn't find any dropped fruits
or crumbs. The stem was just broken off right below
where the fruit was. This is about the third time this
has happened

My current suspect is... Birds(?)

If that is the big danger, perhaps I could hang up some
surplus CDs to scare them away(?)

Thanks for suggestions...


Bird netting. We have a strawberry farm here that has netting over a
giant paddock. Must be several hectares. Like a giant avary.
You may notice blackbirds hop along the ground and dig around a bit.
Same with thrushes altho they eat snails more. I can often hear them
bashing a snail against the concrete footpath. Birds can murder
little seedling too, altho a half cut plastic bottle works ok. Put
the slug bait inside too.
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Cheers,
Loki [ Brevity is the soul of wit. W.Shakespeare ]