Bird Netting for Berries

There is nothing more disheartening than having your berries be almost ripe one day, and completely wiped out by birds the very next day.  It is amazing how fast birds can pick an entire berry bush clean.  The simple solution is to net your berry bushes to keep the birds from getting to your precious berries.

We recently purchased Bird Block Netting netting for our berry bushes and fruit trees.  There are many types and brands of netting available, and I am not saying the other brands will not work as well.  This is just the brand we purchased due to the price and the size (we are rather cheap).

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How I Got My Garden…Finally

My wife had for some time, been telling me that I could not have a garden. She would say “not as long as you are working 55 hours a week and taking online classes, cuz I ain’t gonna be the one doing all the work. So, we began discussing growing herbs in pots, or maybe a raised bed. We talked about this for most of the winter.
Then spring came. She decided that having a row of fruit bearing bushes would be nice. We decided to put them along the edge of where the garden would be, when I was allowed to put one in. So, she ordered a couple blueberry bushes and grape vines. We picked up two blackberry bushes at Lowes the day before the other bushes were set to arrive.