Protecting strawberries

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Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

> 1. Netting. We have a neighbor who is a florist and has a garden and

> fruit trees. He covers the fruit trees with netting to keep away the

> birds. It is woven with big holes in it, something like a fishing net.

> Since we live next to the ocean, perhaps it is fish net.

Thank you for the advices.

But I heard somewhere that the nets can catch the birds and become a trap

for them, I would not like to do that unless absolutely unavoidable.

We have already a few mulberries, and goseberries too, maybe as the

different plants of the garden grow bigger year after year they will protect

eachother. Last year was the first year for the strawberries.

On the farm I lived some years ago we had line after line of strawberries,

so many that we could not even pick them all. We never thought about the

birds then. Maybe we are simply supposed to grow more than enough?

 

 

Our appletree was full of apples two years ago,but last year (and this year

too it looks like) the ends of the branches wither and very few apples make

it. Does anyone have experiences with appletrees?

 

Your servant Gunamani d.d.