raspberry saving tip

[organic vic]

Just thought I would share this tip with you all - instead of covering the whole raspberry bush with netting to prevent birds eating the rasps,there is a chance that the birds will get tangled up in the netting, so I had saved the net bags that lemons, limes and oranges come in from the supermarkets ( originally saved to hammock my melons in ) you can put the net bags around the bunches of rasps and tie the top to the stem thus keeping the rasps and the birds safe

[bluemoon]

What a good idea. I don't know why, but the local birds completely ignore all my fruit except cherries.

[zazen999]

Does this work with Other Halfs that scoff all the rasps as soon as we arrive at the lottie?


Thought not

[Snadger]

Does this work with Other Halfs that scoff all the rasps as soon as we arrive at the lottie?


Thought not

Thats the second time Ena Sharples has come to mind today!

[BFG]

great tip.

I've been fairly lucky with my fruit so far, apart from Mrs blackbird.

She had a nest in the back hedge and I didn't mind sharing the stawbs with her (I grow mine in containers and handing baskets and some self planted ones in the ground for her/mice/shrews/woodlice/slugs etc). That worked well, but now the strawbs are gone, she's after my raspberries, which I haven't got so many of yet.

I think some rasps will be getting mini netted tomorrow!

[Polly Fouracre]

Snakes!! That, I have discovered is what keeps the birds away. Plastic, stuffed, wooden. Just twine them around what needs protecting, moving them a bit every day and your fruit should be safe. I dare say lengths of rope would do just as well!