Strawberries and Birds

You may have more of a problem than birds. Slugs will take a small bite about the size of a marble and leave the rest. The netting should work. Have you thought of the primitive method of holding things down? They are called rocks. You can use string to tie the netting together as well as to the rocks. You can try getting a cat. A rubber snake might work until the birds figure out that it doesn't move. They also make battery operated birds of prey they work the best. Coastal cities use them to keep the sea birds from nesting on the buildings.

I don't know if those net bags from fruit would work but if I had enough of them I would sew them together and try it. I think I would get one of those rubber snakes from the Dollar Store to lay on top of the strawberries too Just inc case. I would try to rig it so it would wiggle at the slightest movement of the vines.

I think that's a great idea. Like others, I think it would work well if you stitched them together to make one large sheet. You can use sticks, old knitting needles, chopsticks, skewers... anything that's long and thin, to stake them. Use something sturdy in the center to hold the net up and off the strawberries. I have trouble with birds and strawberries, too, so I'm going to try this, too!

I think the idea of using tree branches as stakes is great just be sure the branches are dry because I used some green branches once in my moms berry patch and lo and behold we had thirty baby trees coming up in the patch. also I am trying to think why the birds never seemed to bother my moms berry patch. thepatch was rimmed with fruit trees for one thing. BBut we never had a bird problem at all and we had all kindsof birds in the summer time. we also had a lot of squirrels in our trees Infact we rarely had any damage from birds to our fruit trees either.we did have a number of home made scarecrows all over the orchard and berry patch maybe they did work.