With peach season starting to heat up it’s time to get our fruit protected from our arch nemesis…birds! We’re also still harvesting berries and Rosie is all over the place!
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I always keep in mind that you just built this house about 3 years ago and established this whole farm on your own together. It's absolutely Incredible!
What size netting do you use on the peach tree? 1/2 inch?
Are you sure they're birds? Maybe your being singled-out because of God's success blessings and are being attacked with A.I. bird drones by the control freaks calling themselves Homeless Securities.
Use trellis netting .. sold at hydroponic shops. 👋 in major fruit farms up north, we have shotgun blasters, which are a device which has a timer and shoots a shotgun shell blast every few hours to scare birds. Best I have seen and i do commercial farming kinda.
Thx for showing us your hard work in this beautiful farmstead. I love your videos, I love the music, really I love to see all the animals and flora you have! Regards friends!
You two are truly creating a desert paradise. The crawfish were delicious. Sweet Rosie has a great personality.
I found the best way of stopping the birds 🐦 🍑 from eating my peaches 🍑 was to buy them in a can from Woolworths supper store’s. I looked the tin of peaches over a to my delight no bird damage. lol lol 😆
Have you tryed the aluminum pie pans? Take 2 put some drt beans in it. Seal them together haing them in the tree the wind makes them make noise.
And what the pecan people use for squirrel's. Is a propane Canon.
It has a timer and goes off at random times all during the day.
Are you going to update your intro drone footage? It's awesome but wow your trees have grown so much since filming!
In Seattle we have bluejays love picking on Asian pears and cherries!!!
Lots of huge chipmunks making havoc on my peaches also.
You guys are awesome 😎!
I remember on your old farm you have pomegranate. Do you grow it this farm?
Goat was like i will eat whatever you give me mom and dad
we grow a food forest and once we put up shallow bird baths the birds stopped pecking our fruit. i think they are thirsty
I agree about the bags. I had bags on the pears I had last season before we removed the tree and the birds did not care – went right into the fruit. Thanks for this tip which I know I will need for the grapes.
Weird how the birds aren't all over the mulberries instead of peaches. do they go after mulberries? If not, will you train them to? BTW, overripe mulberries are supposed to be loaded with sugars. And wild yeast, of course 🙂 hasta
i am sure you have been asked 1000 times. But where do you get your water.
Have you looked at white bird netting so the birds can see it and not get tangled in the netting
I heard birds do this to get water… at least for tomatoes, might be different for fruit. Maybe setting out a bird bath will help?
Protecting fruit from birds: Birds peck at fruit for water. They dont eat peaches. They prefer seeds and bugs almost universally. If you provide a fresh water fountain / bird bath they wont peck your produce! I even have hummingbirds that come and play in the water as I water my garden. I leave terra cotta bowls of water out for the birds – the terra cotta drain very slowly over a couple of days, which means every time I water them it's fresh. I'm working on a pond with a fountain now, so there will be no worry in the future. Remember if it's stagnant water or still the birds will still go to the fruit. Has to be clean, and preferably flowing water.
The birds need water, especially in those conditions.
I just ordered netting a couple of days ago because the birds were wrecking havoc on my hard, unripe peaches, and I went through a full pack of 100 organza bags, just to try to dissuade them because it's all I had, sacrificing a lot of fruit. It's definitely a learning experience, because I got greedy and didn't thin near as much as I should have and just don't have the fruit size. Lesson learned for next year and beyond, and I'll look forward to your update about the nylon netting with bigger holes. Not sure bird water will help but I brought out more here too, and even had to bag my cherry tomato after having fruit pecked up…The birds are thirsty this year!
Get a shotgun and learn how to use it. No more bird problem.
Welcome to the desert!
Provide lots of water and fertilizer.
Fight weeds, deseases, birds, heat and frost.
And get inferior products.
Hey there, What breed is your pet goat? Where do you get your bird netting? Thx. Jeff.
I used to hate having to cover trees with netting.
You guys need a swimming pool.
You guys need a swimming pool.
I am wondering how hot it gets there ? Love your channel
Just found your channel, this is pretty cool. I'm looking to set up an orchard on three acres, it's pretty much desert out here with tumbleweeds growing here and there where I am in colorado. But we have lots of irrigation water. I was thinking about planting rows of grass between the trees and irrigating the pathways. But I see you have mulch?? Dirt??? Is there a reason why you set things up how you did? Any regrets?
I just found you, and well we instantly hit it off, just so you know, you are one of my new friends!
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What was that tool you used to remove the t post
I have bird netting, but I am also considering golf ball netting. You can get large sizes that can cover multiple bushes or larger trees. It is a heavier netting, but I think will be easier to manage than the plastic netting and hopefully last a while. With the blueberry, black berry bushes I can use t-posts for netting support with bricks on the ground and with muscadines I can use the end posts and wire.
I don't mind sharing with the birds, but they tend to eat alot of berries and damage alot of fruits. A blueberry U-Pick owner told me they lose about 25% of fruits to birds and animals. My losses have been higher than that and there is nothing more frustrating than to pick a beautiful ripe apple only to see the other side has been pecked and is full of ants. My guess is that it is higher because I don't have the quantity of fruiting plants to cover the birds in our area.
I have left three blueberry bushes unprotected near one of my birdbaths, but I just think it brings in even more birds. I've encouraged my neighbors to plant fruiting trees and bushes and I've even shared cuttings and small plants in hopes that if/when their fruit trees and plants get established that it might increase the output allowing me to keep more fruit. Until then I have to net to get some of the fruits of our labor.
Sorry I rambled, but your might want to look into golf netting to protect fruit. It is what I plan on using on my thornless blackberries and possibly my muscadine grapes.
Great content as always. You all are an inspiration. God bless.
I had kangaroo mice helping themselves. I used an “e” collar I had from when My dog hurt himself and put that upside down around the trunk…..so far…..WINNING! 😉 trick we used on boat dock lines, just bigger.
I'm new to your channel, just wanted to say terrific camera work. I hope everyone watching appreciates just how much time it takes to set a camera up and move it around as often as you do and still get some work done! So thanks, I'll keep watching.
The fruit you pull off the trees…do you save the seeds and try to root them?
The problem with this netting is it is pretty much one time use and throw. I couldn't recover the net after a season from the tree, its either torn by wind & tree branches or its all knotted and mingled up.