Unchained Preppers
General Category => Sustenance => Topic started by: NOLA556 on May 21, 2012, 02:16:29 AM
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BOL Stroll: creek & fish pond (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YZeoxfW1tM#)
BOL Stroll: Chicken coop and other old stuff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXhjkuZTsjg#)
BOL Stroll: Fields (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsJOMquia7k#)
BOL Stroll: 1PS goofing off (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H12bbG8sMpk#)
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[URL=http://www.smileyvault.co
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Here's a lesser known trick that old timers used to keep the birds away from figs and other tree fruit. IT REALLY WORKS, I learned it from my grandparents, and have used it on my plum tree and blackberry bushes:
Attach aluminum pie pans near the ends of the branches. Space them about 3 - 5 feet apart. You can reach the higher branches by tying some weight (large metal nut, lead fishing weight, etc.) to the end of some fishing line, then throw it over the higher branches. When the weight comes back down, remove the weight, attach the aluminum, then pull it back up to the high branch.
I, loving "free shit", missed out on protecting my mulberry tree this year while waiting for a friend who kept saying they were going to bring me some pie pans. The birds have eaten approx. 3/4 of my mulberries....I managed to harvest enough to make 2+ pints of preserves yesterday.......Oh yeah, and the pie pans arrived a few hours after I put the lid on the preserves. [img]http://www.arrse.co.uk/at I should be able to harvest a little more when they ripen......Oh well, there's always next year......errrr, maybe, providing the apocalypse doesn't happen first.
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I love tricks the old timers used back when. Thanks!
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i just had mullberries for the first time this weekend. that shit is like crack!
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Welcome to the South. :))
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i just had mullberries for the first time this weekend. that shit is like crack!
Yeah, the birds think that too.....then they leave their little purple shit bombs everywhere! Lol
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love the sounds more than anything Nola.
Why is it they don't like pie pans?
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love the sounds more than anything Nola.
Why is it they don't like pie pans?
they're old and don't rely on their plants to sustain themselves. they just grow because they enjoy it and it's how they grew up. plus they tend to be more worried about "pretty landscaping" rather than efficient production. thats why the place looks like a freaking magazine cover. NBD, whenever my name is on the title that will change. whenever i own that place, I have big plans. wheat fields, bean fields, dozens more fruit trees, extending the fish pond about another 50 or 60 yards, etc. also LP/OP's and other strategic defensive installations.
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Why is it the birds don't like pie pans?
I mean I can imagine if there is two of them together on one string then its obvious they don't like the sound of the two clinking together. But just one? I don't get it?
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Why is it the birds don't like pie pans?
I mean I can imagine if there is two of them together on one string then its obvious they don't like the sound of the two clinking together. But just one? I don't get it?
i dunno. maybe the same reason deer are scared of a dishrag hanging from a string around a veggie crop? they're animals bro. they don't think about things logically like me and you. they see it and think to themselves: "oh shit, fuck that"...
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Part of the reason is that it isn't something that belongs there. Animals are really sensitive to things and if they see something they don't know what it is they tend to shy away from it - especially if it has any movement to it. Around here we use plastic bags tied on string to keep the deer at bay from the garden. After about a week if you haven't moved them the deer figure out they belong there.
Another good technique to keep the birds away from the fruit trees is cut some lengths of worn out garden hose and thread them around the branches. Birds think they're snakes and stay away from them.
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I like it.
Plus... if I do it at night or while the wife is at school I can get her too. [URL=http://www.smileyvault.co
" Look wife...a snake and our son is hanging from that same branch... what should we do? "
:o