Re: [nafex] Saving cherries from the birds (Good Fruit Grower)

Betsy,
What size are your cherries? That is the size to use if you want to
fool the birds.

Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Hilborn
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 9:06 PM
To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
Subject: Re: [nafex] Saving cherries from the birds (Good Fruit Grower)

I would like to try this technique. What is the diameter of the beads?

Betsy Hilborn

On 2/3/2016 9:00 PM, Jim Fruth wrote:
> We have a store here in Pequot lakes, MN called Weise Clothing but I
> have yet to see any clothing there. They have stuff that I've seen
> nowhere else. The part of the store that we are concerned stocks beads of
> many shapes, sizes, colors, made of various materials and findings (stuff
> to make jewelry). Might one call it a "hobby shop"? If we didn't have
> that store, I would Goggle "plastic beads for crafts."
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nave
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 6:16 PM
> To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Saving cherries from the birds (Good Fruit Grower)
>
> Jim, where do you get the plastic cherries?
>
> Dan
>
> On 1/28/2016 9:08 PM, Jim Fruth wrote:
>> Sam,
>>
>> I grow sour cherries and have ZERO bird problems. Why? I hang red
>> plastic 'cherries' in the trees and leave them in the tree the whole year
>> around, replacing them as they fade. Also, I put red painted stones in
>> the strawberries as soon as blooming is finished. The birds peck on the
>> rocks, hurt their beaks and don't come back. AND I hang raspberry shaped
>> berry beads around the perimeter of the red raspberry patch as soon as
>> blooming is done. It doesn't work 100% but it helps. Black berry beads
>> do not work with blackberry and black raspberry and I don't know why not.
>>
>> Jim Fruth
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>> -----Original Message----- From: Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)
>> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 9:16 AM
>> To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
>> Subject: [nafex] Saving cherries from the birds (Good Fruit Grower)
>>
>> Saving cherries from the birds
>> <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.goodfruit.com/saving-cherries-from-the-birds/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBSoTNzM1ODEzMTQ0NDE1NTI3MTA4MjIaZGZlMDEyNzc3YmU4NDVhNjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEDJr2TLeRcvRkWWfJdDVTo2gvesQ>
>> (http://www.goodfruit.com/saving-cherries-from-the-birds/ )
>> Good Fruit Grower
>> Cherry growers sometimes feel like they're growing fruit mainly for the
>> birds, but there is new information that can help them make informed
>> decisions ...
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