Ecnerwal wrote:
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Had a good illustration today of the benefits of odd-colored fruit. I'm
a sweet cherry addict living on the hairy edge of ability to grow the
things. Had some fruit this year - red tree picked clean by marauders
(presumably winged) but the yellow tree was largely untouched.

i think the birds/critters will figure
it out eventually.


Songbird, you might also want to put some nut trees in your thinking
cap. Then again, those often just end up being squirrel food, even if
you try to make them not be.

there are oak trees along the northern edge
for acorns. the squirrels stay mostly over
there. which is as desired. they rarely come
into the yard where the hawks can get them.

i may wedge a few nut trees in eventually, but
the main idea is to add fruit trees as those are
much easier to process.


songbird