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2015_Day 180: Upping the ante in my bird war

Okay you crows and mockingbirds. How much do you really like my tomatoes?

Okay you crows and mockingbirds. How much do you really like my tomatoes?

So tell me the truth. Is netting really going to keep the birds away from my tomatoes? Given that my garden now looks like a huge spider web, I hope so. It was fairly easy to put up — I put a 5-foot tall trellis at each end of the two 4×4 tomato beds, then anchored one set of 5×15 netting on them. Because the birds seem particularly fond of the big tomatoes, I criss-crossed another piece of netting over them. Continue reading