Best fruit tree protection method from bids and squirrels
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- In this video I will show you how to protect the fruit from your fruit trees from birds, squirrels and other animals that take your fruit or just annoyingly take one bite and leave the fruit behind. This method stops is very effective and an advantage is that it reuses plastic! Protect peaches, apples, persimmons, plums, figs, pears, pomegranates, and even tomatoes.
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I lost every apple on my tree to the squirrels one bite and drop method of eating apples. Thanks for giving me hope for a harvest next year!!!
For anyone interested, these kind of containers are called "clam shells" in the berry industry.
Thank you for the tip
This is a very brilliant idea. The few apples and pears that we had were all eaten/ ruined by rodents & birds last year so I am going to use your method. Thanks so much!
Great idea, I've been struggling with these issues for a few years so thank you very much for your advice.
I found this video because I was looking for a solution for the same problem, but with squirrels eating my apples. I live in the south where apple trees don’t grow as tall as they do up north, so I am going to try this method. Thank you!
Genius! Squirrels are stealing my peaches. This looks like it might work.
Great man .I always lose all the peaches . Cause squirrels and birds eats them. I will try your method . Also i can reuses those containers that we put in the trash. Thanks man for share your ideas.
I've had a peach tree for years and the one that ate them were the squirrel. I'm trying your Idea,did some and I will do more when I have the containers. That you for posting this
Brilliam. Protect the fruit and reuse plastic. I am going to post in FB group. We need more people doing these kind of thing. Save lots of money too.
Great Idea. Thanks for this great tip. I will certainly use it. You are correct that the intact fruit is far more important than a tree fashion statement. Wish I had discovered your channel sooner. Thanks Buddy.
Thanks! I appreciate it!
Thank you for re-inforcing a suspicion we all have about how to protect fruit. (Mainly, to wrap a protective barrier around your fruit)
As soon as I saw this i rushed to my pantry and got them and immediately covered my passion fruit. Hopefully they will keep the monkeys and birds away.
I hope it works for you!
You're so right to protect them,and be able to consume those peaches,they look very 👍 good (decorative).
Function over looks. You sir are a genius. Remind me of myself: creative thinking. Thanks.
Awesome as I will give it a go today
I LOVE peaches. Thank you for the awesome video!!!
Good idea..I only wish there were big enough containers for a branch of cherries...lol
best idea I've seen yet and so practical! Love it!! Gosh, have none on hand, shall put thinking cap on and see how I can get some over weekend!
I have already tried this method. The squirrels just chew through the branch fruit drops clam shell pops open and they retrieve the prize. It does work for birds. My recommendation is to not plant your fruit trees near large trees they nest in or any tree that they normally scavenge for nuts.
Great idea! Thanks for sharing this tip.
Remember to add fresh clean water bath and a bird feeder around your fruit trees. This is why birds go after fruit and vegetables. Seeds and suit will help to protect everting from the birds. Squirrel need the same things.
What a great idea 💡. I will try on my fig & avacado trees. Thanks for sharing 😎🏖🏝
Let me know how it works out!
I'm going to give it a try. Thanks for a great idea!
Great idea! Going to give it a try on my mango tree, thanks for sharing! =)
I’ve been having huge problems with bush rats eating my ripe and Green tomatoes. I’ve tried using all kinds of cloth bags and sometimes they work but often the rats get in through the top of the bag or eat through the bag and continue to destroy the fruit. I’m so glad I saw your video. Tonight I will try with the plastic containers and see if that works better. I will let you know thank you for sharing
Thanks Paul! Please let me know if it works for you. I am gathering more of these plastic containers now in the winter to protect even more peaches next year. I also use them to protect my plums and persimmons and tomatoes, so you can see this method works well for a lot of fruits. One tip is to try to clip the fruit right in the middle of the container, because it the fruit is touching the sides of the container (which have some small openings), some animals may be able to scratch or bite the skin of the fruit.
I look forward to hearing from your experience with this method! Subscribe to the channel to help my channel grow! Thanks!
Plastic won’t stop a rodent. Check out the website QYFIRST to see available wire mesh bags. They are reusable and will protect your fruits and vegetables.
Awesome 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏I’ll start saving now and ask family members to thank you
This is an excellent idea! I have a peach tree and a nectarine tree and the birds eat most of the fruit. I will be giving your method a go this week.
It works very well here. And the bonus is that you can wait for the peaches to fall into the boxes, so you know they are ripe.
Is it working to protect your fruit?
Good idea! I use scare tape and it works great too!
nice idea!
Awesome idea!!!!!!
We have two peach trees in our yard that we've had for 9 plus years. We've never had a single peach! I tried this container method and if they don't chew through it the peach ends up falling off the tree while they attempt to get it. There are oak trees all around the neighborhood what's squirrel nest one being in our backyard. And now our neighbors have peach trees in their yards as well. It's terrible it's so damn hard to grow ANYTHING because of these bastards. I had a greenhouse and they chewed that too. 🤬ING squirrels?
Definitely trying this thanks
Unfortunately tried this and the squirrels chewed right through the plastic containers. 😢 They ate every last peach on the tree. Those boogers! 🐿
This is what I was afraid of! Still looking for a method to protect my apples!
We have two peach trees in our yard that we've had for I'm going to say a good 9 plus years. We've never had a single peach! I tried this container method and if they don't chew through it the peach ends up falling off the tree while they attempt to get it. Where is oak trees all around the neighborhood and now our neighbors have peach trees in their yard as well. It's terrible because it's so damn hard to grow ANYTHING because of these bastards. I had a greenhouse and they chewed that too. 🤬ING squirrels?
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brilliant idea.
Next year I will use this idea.
Thank you
👍 thanks 🙏
Really a bummer when you only have about 6 fruits on a new tree and the one bird ruined 3 lol - well I salvaged 2 and cut off the bitten parts--tasted good.
I wonder if heat from the sun creates toxic off-gassing from the plastic.
of course it does....but the next question is, does it stick to the fruit, and will a quick rinse in water remove the contamination....but wait, theres more....rinsing it in water from the faucet may be depositing some other toxic mineral or chemical on the fruit... Better off just getting your fruit from the frozen food aisle, so you have no idea what really happened to the fruit and just hope for the best.
@@ldlink3935 lmao😂😂. The reality of living and consuming in America is becoming a big joke.
They need bpa free plastic containers in fruit
Perfect 👌
This year, I had big peaches and many of them. My bone of contention is the worms. They probably can go through the containers. I lose about 20 percent of my peaches because of the worms. Luckily, I get so many that I can afford losing that percentage.
this is a great idea! I have a few containers available. Do I need to poke holes in them to allow for proper ventilation
If your containers have no holes, then yes, you should. The containers I use are already full of wholes.
@@self-sufficienturbangarden5009They clearly have holes. My problem is bringing in a ton of plastic nothing, to solve a problem I possibly could cure another way with WAY less effort. Sure I own machine guns and what ever else the world thinks us yanks have, but I'm getting old and I need a long term solution. poison? Base of the tree shields so they can't climb up? Netting from amazon, over the entire tree?
Smart
I am going to try that..l my peaches were gone..funny thing they were not bites or dropped they took them whole
I just lost all my apples to the deers. They stuck their head over my lil gate and net. Then they got me for my peach tree. Didn't even leave a branch or leaf standing😢
Very attractive
Thank you for your video. What can ido for my cherries on my cherry tree?
Hi Estella. I dont have cherries here yet, but I imagine I would try the same thing, even though they are small.
I have cherry trees. I get average of 18 gallons a year. I have to use bird nets. When they start to blush, the dirty are on them till gone. Home depot has nets. 14ft x 45 ft is about 20.00.
@shelbyw6140 this doesn't work with squirrels does it? I've had my trees for 10 years and not one peach. From two trees! It's a nightmare. I can't have barley anything i grow because of the squirrels. One of them just chills on my fence and looks into my kitchen window. Literally laying down on the top of a 4 by 4 post. 🤬
I used the netted bags and tied it to the tree and some Carmen’s stole the peach and the netted bag.
Those effin squirrels ate my peaches all of them and they weren’t even ready yet those pieces of crap!!! 😭
Yeah, I see them almost everyday eating my peaches right now, and the peaches are small and green, far from mature. I find that they never really go for the ones in the plastic containers, so at least those I definitely save!
Squirrels ate all my four hazelnut trees every year. The trees with many thick branches , very tall . And squirrels ate too early and drop all over the places on the Grounds. Really messy. They used to take and bring to dig but now? Squirrels , birds, chipmunks are my cherry trees. The cherry trees are talk. Impossible to cover…. I put silver tiling or a blow up beach ball or … Still not working.
As well as blueberries. Mostly I can cover blueberries.
Those animals live at the wrong places!
how does that perform in wind and storms? I just lost every single piece of fruit on my apple, then pear then peach tree.
I cant tell how effective it is, we dont have many storms here. But it is worth a try, since it may have add some protection against the wind and rain.
@@self-sufficienturbangarden5009 I'm going to try this next year for sure. Everything else I've tried hasn't worked. Just lost my last peach today. uuuuggg! LOL. great video thank you for this!
Can I use sandwich bag to wrap the fruits?
Possibly, but they should be transparent for the sun to go through, and you also have to be careful with the heat. If it is too hot there, flimsy plastic may melt.
Easier to get a pet hawk
Did this end up working? I might try it. Squirrels have devastated my peaches in the past.
Yes, I use this method every year, and it works very well.
@@self-sufficienturbangarden5009 Thanks I'll try it. I'm at my wits end with the freakin squirrels!
Can I use it for grapes and figs slso?
I dont currently have grapes here. One person I know growing grapes had a hard time fitting the grapes inside the container. The bunch of grapes was too large for the container. I am starting to grow a fig tree, but it is so small that I have bird netting around it for now. I assume you can use the plastic containers too, but it is just harder to wrap the figs because of the location they usually sprout from the tree. (peaches sprout at easier locations to wrap them without having to break the branches/leaves)
You never have a problem with squirrels chewing through the plastic? I’ve had the squirrels chew through wire and through several plastic feeders to get to bird food.
No, they never chewed through these plastic containers. I guess I am lucky? Or the squirrels here are not too bad.
I’m going to try it, I’ll let you know! This is the first year we’ve had any peaches so I’m going to be sad if they get eaten by not me!
The first year I tried this none of my peaches were eaten. This year the squirrels figured it out and chewed through all the plastic clam shells.
But they eat the flowers before the fruit.. what do i do. Please reply. How to save the Flowers
Hi Maria. I am not sure how to save the flowers. My trees have so many flowers, hundreds of them (maybe thousands if I count all trees combined) that even if the squirrels eat flowers, there is just too many and fruit will come out anyways. You should not use the plastic containers on the flowers because if wont let bees in to pollinate.
@@self-sufficienturbangarden5009 right. I had thousands of flowers too but nothing at all now. Today i saw only one small Avacado. Sir please help and let me know what i should do. Iam truly working hard on my garden.
Maria,
If your flowers aren’t setting and turning into fruit it could be a lack of pollinators or maybe your tree is not self pollinating. The temperatures could be too high, the nutrients in the soil could be missing for that type of fruit tree or it could be in the wrong climate. There are too many factors for anybody to actually tell you what the issue is without knowing where exactly you are and your soil condition and all the other needed information.
@@agustin8859 good morning, i have a few Avacado's already. If you could give me your watsapp number i could send you the picture of it. It was full with flowers but at the end nothing much. I saw the squirrels eating and after i tied my dog close to the tree we have a few of those at present. Thank you very much 🙏 dear and God bless you forever 🤝🌹👍
This method does not work with possums
Putting 60 of these on my tree is insane...LOL it's way too time consuming and where do i buy 60 of them? A squirrel will eat them in no time.
Smfh
LEAVE SOME FOR THE BIRD & ANIMAL KINGDOM - THEY ALSO HAVE TO EAT
They can eat bugs