Birds and Tomatoes

[dukmisr2005]

how do you stop birds from pecking tomatoes? besides the obvious of not planting them. i have picked about 8-10 and all have been pecked up by the birds. green or getting ripe doesnt matter.

[MudHog]

Daisy Red Rider

[Blitz]

Put netting over the plants will work, but its a pain to deal with.
My parents put a bird bath out near their garden and it cut down on
the amount of damaged tomatos, guess a drink out of a bowl is easier
than pecking a tomato.

[MudHog]

owl decoy?

[woundedduck]

scare crow

[gibbs300]

went out and looked at my tomatoes and they were all gone. i had some big ones too. I think squirrels got them. I saw a squirrel running across the yard the other day with a zuccini in its mouth.

[4dawgma]

sorry to laugh but thats funny

[ScottyLee]

dad wraps his in some kind of plastic mesh that looks like chicken wire but don't cut the hell out of your hands. it works for him

[tip101]

hang moth balls off the side of pot or place them some distance from the plant.

tip

[quackheadbp]

Go down to the dollar store and buy a bunch of those toy rubber snakes and wrap them around the top of the plants.

[gibbs300]

I have been thinking about putting rubber snakes out, i just haven't gone to the store yet.

[donia]

do the birds try to eat the rubber snakes, instead of the juicy tomatoes? do you wrap them around the stalk or out on the limbs?

[quackheadbp]

do the birds try to eat the rubber snakes, instead of the juicy tomatoes? do you wrap them around the stalk or out on the limbs?

Scares them away.