strawberry advice needed
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Posted: Jun/03/2008 7:05 AM PST
Help! I have my very first strawberry crop starting to bear fruit ... but every time a berry reddens up, I discover that it's been nibbled by some creature. Usually, about a quarter of the berry is gone. The leaves remains untouched - just the almost-ripe berries are being eaten. I have a chicken-wire fence around the garden on three sides, with the fourth side being a picket fence. What could this be? Rabbits, birds ... ? |
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Posted: Jun/03/2008 8:57 AM PST
It could be anything. Try putting bird netting over the garden, anp putting more poultry fencing onto the picket fence and over the ground. That should keep the birds and bunnies from getting in there! |
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Posted: Jun/03/2008 9:47 AM PST
When I had a strawberry patch in Virginia, it was snails that ate mine! Did you see any trails? |
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Posted: Jun/03/2008 6:18 PM PST
Yeah, I'd guess slugs or snails. By trails, you mean those wiggly little shiny lines of dried snail-slug-slime that trace the little booger's path into and out of the ruined fruit - am I right? |
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Posted: Jun/05/2008 4:17 PM PST
thanks ... I just put up bird netting, and I'll see if this solves the problem. Don't know if this will stop snails, if that's what's eating the berries. |
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Posted: Jun/06/2008 4:01 AM PST
No, netting won't stop snails. The only thing I know of that stops snails is snail and slug bait. One name that I really like is EscarGO, but there are a lot of brands, or you may prefer the organic beer method where you put out a saucer of beer, and they fall in and drown. |
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Posted: Jun/06/2008 5:25 AM PST
I know a lot of people that's happened to. ;-) |
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Posted: Jun/06/2008 11:13 AM PST
OK, I've caught a slug redhanded eating the strawberries. I'll check out the EscarGO you mention - but does the beer thing really work? |
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Posted: Jun/18/2008 10:33 AM PST
Quote: Originally posted by stereoman I know a lot of people that's happened to. ;-)Thanks Stereoman!! I needed a good laugh for the day!! 
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Posted: Jun/29/2008 1:56 PM PST
I have noticed my strawberries disappearing as well. I'm sure it's the birds. |
