Now it's the birds after my figs.

[37chief]

My garden has been a struggle the past few years. I finally got the rabbits and squirrels under control in my cucumber plants. My cucumbers have been the best in a lot of years. Big beautiful plants. I make a A frame about 6 ft high out of concrete wire. The plants climb right up with a little help. Just as the cucumbers are starting to bloom. The aphid move in on the leaves. I have tried different (safe) sprays, that do work a little. What do you do for aphids? I gave up and will pick a few cucumbers for my wife to make pickles out of. In the past years she made 50-60 quarts to sell at the local craft fair. So far I have 6 quarts. Moving along to my fig tree, It has been a great year a lot of figs. I checked the tree today, the birds moved in as the figs are getting ripe. Went to home depot and got a large net. Should stop the birds, until the rats get tired chicken feed. One good thing I have no gophers this year. The way I see it, when Dad was farming he had good years, and not so good years. He never quit. Next year is another chqllenge. Stan
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[Indiana George]

My garden has been a struggle the past few years. I finally got the rabbits and squirrels under control in my cucumber plants. My cucumbers have been the best in a lot of years. Big beautiful plants. I make a A frame about 6 ft high out of concrete wire. The plants climb right up with a little help. Just as the cucumbers are starting to bloom. The aphid move in on the leaves. I have tried different (safe) sprays, that do work a little. What do you do for aphids? I gave up and will pick a few cucumbers for my wife to make pickles out of. In the past years she made 50-60 quarts to sell at the local craft fair. So far I have 6 quarts. Moving along to my fig tree, It has been a great year a lot of figs. I checked the tree today, the birds moved in as the figs are getting ripe. Went to home depot and got a large net. Should stop the birds, until the rats get tired chicken feed. One good thing I have no gophers this year. The way I see it, when Dad was farming he had good years, and not so good years. He never quit. Next year is another chqllenge. Stan
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What kind of fig tree do you have ?

 

[old_bc]

My garden has been a struggle the past few years. I finally got the rabbits and squirrels under control in my cucumber plants. My cucumbers have been the best in a lot of years. Big beautiful plants. I make a A frame about 6 ft high out of concrete wire. The plants climb right up with a little help. Just as the cucumbers are starting to bloom. The aphid move in on the leaves. I have tried different (safe) sprays, that do work a little. What do you do for aphids? I gave up and will pick a few cucumbers for my wife to make pickles out of. In the past years she made 50-60 quarts to sell at the local craft fair. So far I have 6 quarts. Moving along to my fig tree, It has been a great year a lot of figs. I checked the tree today, the birds moved in as the figs are getting ripe. Went to home depot and got a large net. Should stop the birds, until the rats get tired chicken feed. One good thing I have no gophers this year. The way I see it, when Dad was farming he had good years, and not so good years. He never quit. Next year is another chqllenge. Stan
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My fig tree only has 3 figs due to a late freeze we had this spring.

 

[Texasmark]

Mocking Birds are the state bird. So you can't do anything about them. One of their favorite tricks is to get into your garden, or into your fruit trees, and see how many ripe "fruits" they can peck a hole in.

We used to get sizer tailed Fly Catcher birds (OK state bird if I recall correctly) along with our Mocking Birds here. The MBs ran them off from around the house and finally ran the FCs off entirely. Another dominant, beautiful bird is the Blue Jay. Haven't seen any of them in awhile now.