So How Does YOUR Garden Grow?

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Garden Update

FLASH! FLASH! FLASH!

The following is a vital "Our Garden" update

This important update should be inserted in the Garden Guide between pages 27 ... superseding previous update AN 101a. Of a previous date.

The update is as follows : NO NEW UPDATES – SO FAR - TO DATE!

Please destroy all previous outdated updates, and refer to the manual for further instructions.

END OF VITAL GARDEN UPDATE!

KimB

The strawberries are looking very good and some serious thought had to be put into “What to do – about the birds?” At first, I had planned an elaborate netting structure. Bird-netting would be draped over several PVC pipes cut and connected to form a “house” over the strawberries.

Flash Tape and Strawberries

This looked quite feasible during the initial growth of the garden but the tomato plants had other ideas about space usage: they want it all to themselves! There is no space for such a structure.

After a bit of thinking and reviewing what I had seen the farmers using in their fields around Hollister (our previous home), I remembered Flash Tape. This is a shiny tinsel type ribbon that twists in the wind and in theory, discourages birds and other critters.

So, I have put up some flash tape and we shall see what happens.