Bird netting for garden

Describes how to prevent birds from eating vegetables and fruit in a garden. Includes both shielding/netting methods and distraction/fright methods.

Bird netting is a game changer when it comes to saving your edibles. Read on to learn about the many uses of bird netting in the garden.

Keep the Birds out & your Berries in! Tutorial on how to do a bird netting for your berry patch.

Bird netting: anyone who’s used it can attest to what a tangled mess it can become in the garden. In the Sunset Test Garden, we use a simple system of bird netting that includes a $3 hack from the hardware store that makes all the difference in keeping the netting neat and tidy. Why bother with this stuff […]

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Polypipe cut at 7 metre lengths and threaded over star pickets makes the structure. We read about it on Scarecrows blog. The pipe was rural water pipe for drainage. Star pickets 5'6". We think 7 metres was the maximum you should cut it at as some of the pieces have bent over a bit under the heat and/or weight of the netting. We could drill holes in the top of the pipe and thread wire through. Tying off lengths the same distance apart as the star pickets. This would keep them evenly spaced…

When you first plant blueberry bushes you have to give them a couple of years to start growing before you focus on the berries. We hit that this year, and my anger at the birds got loud by mid-summ…

For the last two years I have been pondering what the best protection for my blueberries would be. In the past, I have draped bird netting over them, only to have the birds go underneath it to get the berries. I considered various forms of white PVC pipe with bird netting over it, but I couldn't decide on the style of framework because it seemed to me that the white pipe would glare out at you and be unsightly. Eventually they would deteriorate from UV damage as well. This year, the solution…