How to Keep Birds Out of a Garden

Everyone that has a vegetable garden would honestly not want birds eating their poor plants. Different gardeners typically plant certain shrubs and beautiful flowers using the intention of getting birds into their gardens. Birds add music and color to your garden. They also aid in controlling pests and assist in pollination, which are wonderful for gardeners. Birdscaping or arranging your garden to support or attract local birds is a movement that’s growing in the gardening world. Not all gardeners are in favor of bringing several different birds into their space used for gardening. 

What is Garden Netting? 

For one to create barriers available in your garden, you could make use of garden netting. This is an effective way to stop birds from entering your garden and spoiling all the hard work and energy you have put into growing those beautiful plants. Butterfly netting protects the plants available in your garden, but it lets in small insects like bees and butterflies, which need to gain access to your plants for cross-pollination purposes. For you to avoid injuries to other wildlife and other birds, you need to put a lot of thinking into your netting type. You could make use of netting that has holes that are smaller than a centimeter. 

It is really important for you to invest in very high quality netting. Make use of UV-resistant materials for netting. Some could serve as hazards for small wildlife, especially when they start to deteriorate and fray. So be careful.

Try Chicken Wire 

You could put some chicken wire on the ground. This would serve as a guard to the seeds you just planted or your bee tubers from getting damaged from birds or chickens, which peck and scratch the soil. These seedlings would soon start growing, the wires get lifted off the ground using stakes for your plants to get more protection. 

Guard Crops using Garden Fleece 

Garden fleece is usually installed and it guards crops against colds during their months. It could also serve and get used all through the year. You could make use of white materials to cover your lettuce. Use bok choy, chard, and salad greens too. These are all awesome to keep the birds in your neighborhood from harvesting in your greens before you might have a chance. You could weigh the sides down using pegs or rocks, and then you could roll back the fleece when it is time to harvest. 

So now you know the thing you can do to prevent birds from destroying your beautiful garden. Using the ways listed above, you’re good to go.

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