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I'm planning my garden crops (24' x 24') and wondering just what I will do this year to keep the birds off my ripe tomatoes. Everything I've done has failed. Most recently I tried that deer fabric/netting. All that did is create a protected aviary for the birds. The seem to find ways in and out easily.
Have any of you tried that flashy tape to scare birds?
Plastic falcon hanging from a string over the crops?

I really would like to harvest more than the birds this year! Any ideas?
 
In all my years of gardening I've never had a problem with birds bothering tomatoes and have never heard of it. Wonder what other's experience is? The only thing birds bother that I plant is black sunflowers which the finches clean up before they're fully ripe. Cherry trees and strawberries are another story.
 
We have lots of bird issues with tomatoes. Birds will peck at the fruit and damage it, which attracts more bugs. Then they sit and feast. When fruit is ripe, both the birds and the squirrels fight over it.Last time we had cherry tomatoes, we lost about 60% to critters!
 
Only birds I ever had bother my tomatoes were chickens. What kind of birds are they? Do they peck all of them or just the red ones?
 
Thanks for all the replies!
We are quite dry here in Northern AZ. The birds which assault my tomatoes all seem to be sparrows and finches. They tend to poke 1 hole in each tomato, then move on to the next. We do have a 300 gallon pond in a stock tank nearby with a fountain and bird ledge. We get monsoon rains most of summer, but it gets very dry in September when everything gets ripe.
I am determined to harvest more than the birds this year!
 
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