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What's eating my strawberries?

ds1980
ds1980 Posts: 1,213 Forumite
in Gardening
Whats eating my strawberries. Have quite a few plants jotted around the garden but i can never seem to get any to full ripeness. Theyre always eaten before they do! ANy solutions?

ta
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  • martinthebandit
    martinthebandit Posts: 4,422 Forumite
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    Birds

    and they need netting (the strawberries that is ;))
  • a1cat
    a1cat Posts: 1,355 Forumite
    Slugs etc love'em too
  • tanith
    tanith Posts: 8,091 Forumite
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    I used to find woodlice in my strawberries... disgusting things..
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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    ds1980 wrote: »
    ANy solutions?

    ta

    straw underneath the fruit and cds on stings suspended above and moved often. :)
  • ds1980
    ds1980 Posts: 1,213 Forumite
    thanks for help. I dont think its birds but i will net them now. Some not all are raised above ground and ive put hay underneath them so am thinking at must be smaller "bugs" rather than slugs although they eat everything else in my garden!!

    Ill try the nets and see how i get on

    ta
  • greyteam1959
    greyteam1959 Posts: 4,800 Forumite
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    Blackbirds...........they eat my strawberries & my ripening gooseberries .........
  • annie123
    annie123 Posts: 4,256 Forumite
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    Snails had several of mine this morning......I know it was them as I picked them off and relocated them in the park at the back.

    Can we go back to dry weather in the south east please......I thought the slugs and snails had all died in the cold winter but it would seem not.
  • froogs
    froogs Posts: 13 Forumite
    lostinrates wrote: »
    straw underneath the fruit and cds on stings suspended above and moved often. :)

    What does the CD's on strings do please? Thanks.
    living a solvent, chic and fulfilled life on a shoestring... a threadbare shoestring _pale_ :undecided :think:
  • Little_Mankties
    Little_Mankties Posts: 22 Forumite
    Having same problem - woodlice are our culprit. I agree with the straw suggestion, has seemed to help ours.

    Presume the CDs on strings would deter pests of the flying variety....!?
  • cootambear
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    Its probably me sleepwalking
    Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).

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