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    Strawberry Protection?

    My Strawberry Plants are currently doing me very proud and my father mentioned netting from the birds. Do I really need them, there's never any birds in my garden with my dog and the neighbours cats and I know this because half a loaf of crumbs went two weeks scattered in the garden without being touched, are they safe or do I need to protect them?
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    The choice is yours! The main culprits I find are blackbirds who will exploit any gap in the netting at the allotment. If you don't see many birds you could take a chance.

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    • #3
      Watch out for slugs, too. I've lost half my crop to them so far this year.
      Le Sarramea https://jgsgardening.blogspot.com/

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      • #4
        And mice! I had hundreds of straws last year which 'disappeared', and which I found, still green and hard, a while later in heaps under the plants' leaves which were forming a canopy by then. Between the mice and the slugs, I think I got about 3 red fruits for myself.. Although hopefully the cats will help with this one!
        sigpicGardening in France rocks!

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        • #5
          I just put some bet over the top held down with tent pegs, seems to do the job

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          • #6
            I use hoops with netting over the top to keep the birds of, there's nothing worse than a half eaten strawberry.
            Location....East Midlands.

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            • #7
              I didn't have any problems with birds stealing the strawberries at home last year, but they nicked everything that wasn't nailed down at the lottie...
              My spiffy new lottie blog

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              • #8
                Watch out for wood lice too..........my mate went to pop a strawb in her mouth and realised there was a woodlouse in it
                S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                • #9
                  hope you're dog dont get a taste for them either like mine did, little git pushed under my netting... between him and the mice i didnt get one single strawberry!
                  If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero


                  my memories of my garden http://lisamcflisagarden.blogspot.co.uk/

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                  • #10
                    I lose mine to the squirrels! My dogs are very partial to fruit too - bet they can't wait for the raspberries to start

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                    • #11
                      Something has bitten my only ripening strawberry last night then decided it didn't like it :-(

                      Part of me wishes it had eaten the whole thing rather than waste it!

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