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Old 05-27-2021, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby View Post
We have some fruit trees in our neighborhood, and there are fruits rotting on the ground by their trunks. I wouldn't worry about animals eating the fruits. If they're healthy trees, you'll get enough fruit to feed yourself and the animals, and still have to pick up rotting fruit from the ground to prevent mounds of ants.
I am growing blueberries. I would gladly accept the birds taking 10%. Perhaps that was true the first year. Recent years, I grow tons of fruit. Typically I get about 10 blueberries and the birds take the rest. Southern birds have no class. They do not wait for them to ripen. They eat them green. Yes I have put out nets. I've caught birds in them as well as snakes.