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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2013 8:39:15 GMT
Last night BBC2. Monty Don looking at art and gardens in France - the bit that really surprised me was the cherry trees complete with cherries - why oh why do the birds beat me to them even before they are pink, let alone red?
Don't they have cherry eating birds in France?
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Post by rgsp on Feb 16, 2013 9:07:00 GMT
Last night BBC2. Monty Don looking at art and gardens in France - the bit that really surprised me was the cherry trees complete with cherries - why oh why do the birds beat me to them even before they are pink, let alone red? Don't they have cherry eating birds in France? a) Any bird with cherry eating tendencies gets shot and spread on toast in France before it gets many. b) If you have enough cherries (as we do, including wild ones) it saturates the birds, and harvesting a crop is still possible. Last year was very poor for cherries, and then because there weren't very many in the first place, the birds had an undue proportion of that small number. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2013 12:04:00 GMT
Hence the term "you're toast"  So birds can have enough then - it was summer 2011 when the one tree was stripped overnight [it seemed] hardly any colour to the fruit - wonder if a squirrel would have helped also? |
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