Seed Guide 2007 pgs 01/41 - McKenzie Seeds

G A R D E N I N G
Clever Animal Tactics
T I P S
BEARS
To keep birds from raiding your
berry bushes, cut up orange
A bright light on a motion sensor garbage bags into strips and tie
keeps bears out of the compost them to your bushes. The orange
pile.
strips seem to confuse the birds
Doug Pederson, Hagensborg BC.
and they will leave your berries
alone.
BIRDS
Helen Machura, Vilna AB.
To keep the birds from eating
your lettuce, strawberries, etc. put
a string between two stakes over
your rows and hang aluminum foil
"bows" from the string.
Dorothy McDonald, Assiniboia SK.
I hang aluminum tart shell cups in
my saskatoon trees to repel the
birds.
Dawn Holmlund, Wetaskiwin AB.
To prevent our saskatoons from
being eaten by robins, I sewed a
tent made of nylon sheer. We
used bricks to hold it down. It lets
in light but not the birds.
Anne Wilkie, Regina SK.
Slip small rubber bands over corn
ears to keep the birds from eating
them.
Mrs. L. Stanley, Gainsborough SK.
For easy to make scarecrows that
keep birds away, spray paint
aluminum pie plates yellow. Hang
them in the garden. You can also
coat your foil pan scarecrows with
cooking oil. The yellow sticky
surface attracts and traps many
damaging insects.
Eileen Telawsky, New Sarepta AB.
CATS
Sprinkle used coffee grounds in
your flower beds to prevent cats
from digging in them.
Audrie Seidl, Biggar SK.
Surround your vegetable and
flower garden with marigolds. It
keeps cats from digging there and
encourages bees for pollination.
Joy Edmonds, Brandon MB.
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