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  • What's eating my strawberries?

    First fruit ripening, but all the ripe ones have been eaten. Hoping this is slug damage and not birds as covering the bed will be difficult, how do I tell?Click image for larger version

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  • #2
    Sorry looks like birds.
    Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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    • #3
      You could try covering with fleece?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by roitelet View Post
        Sorry looks like birds.
        Why do you think that? I thought birds would make smaller, deeper marks?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Scarlet View Post
          You could try covering with fleece?
          I could, but surely I can't leave them covered in fleece for the whole season, they'd cook?

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          • #6
            Doesn't look like slug damage (or mouse you'll be glad to hear).
            Covering with netting shouldn't take too long if you have some.
            A few canes round the bed with yogurt pots or such like on. then hold the netting down with a few stones that you have lying about or lengths of timber.

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