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My raspberries are looking fine, had a couple of pickings already, but the strawberries - I just can't keep the birds out. I've pegged netting every foot around the bed, but still they are getting at the fruit somehow, so disappointing, I'm going to put the whole lot on the compost heap and go to Aldi if I want strawberries. Pah!
With regard to birds eating strawberries, I usually do net mine, but as I sat on my bench and listened to the blackbird singing behind me, I decided that if I hadn't grown enough strawberries for me and the blackbirds, then I just hadn't grown enough strawberries. So I have dispensed with the net this year and I'm eating strawberries two or three times a day. Indeed I have strawberry milkshake in hand as I type! My thought though is that with five rows of strawberries, with eleven plants in each row, I have 55 plants, plus a few runners from last year which landed such that I didn't see to pull them up last autumn. Maybe the way to go is to grow more than the birds can eat! On the other hand, I have had more trouble from rats in the past, even catching them under the net a few times, but I responded to that by moving the entire bed to a more open part of my plot. I don't think rodents like to go far from cover.