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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- When squirrels are stealing 5-6 nectarines per day, it's time to get creative. Christy Wilhelmi of Gardenerd shares the results of an experiment that WORKED to keep squirrels off a nectarine tree until harvest was completed.
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I live in a cicada area and here's what I did to cheaply cover my trees. I bought sawhorse brackets - $7.50. Then I bought 4 8' 2x4s and 1 4' 2x4 from HomeDepot. I figure when the crisis is over I can repurpose the wood. Then from Hobby Lobby I bought 8 yds of tulle $1.49/yd. I can reuse the tulle as shade cloth to protect my brassicas from cabbage moths.
Awesome. Great idea! Thanks so much!
I will be trying this. I luckily have a old umbrella that we haven’t put out to the garbage yet so this looks promising. I have to try it next year because they’ve already eaten all of my peaches this year.
Keep us posted on how it goes. I recommend deer fencing instead of bird netting. It lasts longer and is more durable than bird netting.
That is some ingenious idea. Good job!!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Genius nerdy ideas you pulled together! I feel like this is a real selling point for mini fruit Gardens. I’d love to hear what happens with the apples so thanks for keeping us posted!
We will. We saw a few apples with bite marks in them, so we moved the contraption over to cover it. We'll post our findings after harvest.
Great idea. Thanks
Amazing ideas - yours and the commenters. Due to high winds and my nectarine is in a container (4’x4’x3’) I’m going to try the “canopy” frame and use chicken wire (maybe netting) near t sure yet. With post legs set in buckets of cement. My nectarine is 3-5 yrs old and 9’ tall x 7’ wide so need to build something the tree can grow with / within. Luckily I know a welder so will see what we can create hopefully not too expensive.
Great idea.
Nice update! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I used 9" green tule drawstring bags around each fruit starting 30 days before ready to pick! I use scare crow motion detector sprinker. I use raw meat each day for one month before harvest to attract local red tail hawks. I make sure area 100 feet from fruit trees is not conducive for squirrels to live/hide . I go to whole foods for fruit when all else fails as am too lazy to keep an outdoor cat!
These are all great ideas. Hawks + meat = trouble for squirrels and rats. Well done.
Thanks you so much for this idea! Such a great idea. Well I thought of a way to upgrade your idea for different scenarios. You can use one of those four-legged pop up canopies and instead of putting the cover on the top, just drape a large piece (or two) of bird netting over the frame and hold it down with bricks. It should work in the same manner as your setup but larger space.
Fantastic idea! Yes. For wider trees, this is a perfect solution.
Great idea. So the top is not covered? If that is the case, might the squirrel have jumped from a nervy tree/structure on to the umbrella skeleton?
The top is covered. We stitched the top layer (draped across the top of the umbrella) to the vertical layer (hanging around the circumference of the umbrella down to the ground) together.
@@Gardenerd They are persistent little suckers, aren’t they?!
@@borracho-joe7255 They are, but this contraption made them give up. So I count that as a success.
I like her voice
This works when the tree is small. I have a mango tree, another story.
Hey, GN, why not put an aluminum disk horizontally around the trunk of the tree, wide enough so the lil' b@st@rds can't climb around it? It looks like the tree is far enough away from taller surrounding objects so that they can't jump in from the top commando style. If all else fails, use a greyhound. You won't have anything smaller than 20lbs moving (or alive) within a 300' radius. 😇
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