NO BIRDS PLEASE!
24 Sep 2009 9 Comments
in Garden Projects, Vegetable/ Herb Garden Tags: desert king fig, fruit and fig trees, keeping birds away, protecting fruit trees
September is fig season and mine are being eaten right off the tree. I love to share my garden with the birds and the bees, but I will NOT share the figs! I found these great little hanging mirrors threaded on fishing line, and placed them on several branches of the tree. Happy to report that it solved the bird problem this season! The flashing mirrors reflecting in the sun must really bother the birds and they stay away.
As they announce at the Padre games- “Hang a Star on It”. This is for sure a Star idea- try it!
** Use any type mirror in the garden area that you want a bird free zone.
(If you live in San Diego- check out “Leaping Lotus” on Cedros Avenue Design District in Solana Beach. I got the mirrors there- under $5.00 per string).
This fig tree is a Desert King- They are large, deep green figs with a strawberry red flesh and very sweet. I like these much more than my mission figs.
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