[Sca-cooks] fruit trees

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A plastic owl will help and bird netting will help on drawf trees weight or
tie the bottom

Kirk

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Catsup or BBQ Sauce !!!

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Liberty Hill, SC (Kershaw)
Longitude: 80° 48' 7" W (-80.8019°)
Latitude: 34° 28' 41" N (34.4781°)
Grid: EM94
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huette von Ahrens" <ahrenshav at yahoo.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] fruit trees


>
>
> --- Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> > Huette commented:
> > > Our apricot trees just produced the best
> > > crop ever.  And our little
> > > ultra-dwarf peach produced a dozen normal sized sweet, luscious
> > > peaches.  Our neighbors white
> > > peach tree which is hanging more and more over the fence is overloaded
> > > with succulent white
> > > peaches, so sweet and juicy and ripe off the tree ... so much better
> > > tasting than anything the grocery store ever provides.
> >
> > Do you have problems with birds? If so, how do you solve this?
> >
> > When I had a peach tree at our other house, the birds would poke holes
> > in the fruit. I would have been willing to share if they'd done this to
> > just a few peaches or eat most of a peach. But they would poke a hole
> > in one fruit and then go on to another, and another...
>
> Some bird problems, but not apparently as bad as yours.  Our biggest
problem is squirrels.
> They find the ripest, biggest, most luscious fruit, eat half of the fruit,
throw it down and then
> go for another.  I am debating about adopting an outdoor cat, even though
I am allergic to
> them.  But at leat they don't deliberately eat fruit.  I wonder what kind
of cat would go
> after squirrels?  As far as I am concerned, squirrels are just rats in
fluffy clothing with
> better PR.  Fortunately, our apricot trees overproduce so that our losses
don't affect us
> too much.  My little peach tree wasn't bothered by birds and the squirrels
didn't find it
> until I had harvested all but two peaches.  I am not sure that the
squirrels have found
> my neighbor's peach tree yet as the peaches aren't ripe yet.
>
> I haven't found any effective bird and squirrel deterrents.  My mother
used to cover the ultra
> dwarf peach tree with cheesecloth, but that really didn't do any good.
The apricot trees
> are 40' and 30' tall.  There isn't much one can do to protect such large
trees.  Other than
> perhaps a squirrel stalking cat.  Hmmm ... I should look into hawks and
owls too, although
> they probably wouldn't like living in an urban area.
>
> Huette
>
>
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>
>
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