Protecting blueberries from birds

Protect blueberry bushes, tomato plants, or anything else you have growing from birds and squirrels with this easy to assemble covers. Using PVC and wildlife netting, create re-useable covers that will protect your harvest. Growing blueberry bushes | garden | fruit trees | fruit bushes | backyard | container garden

For the last two years I have been pondering what the best protection for my blueberries would be. In the past, I have draped bird netting over them, only to have the birds go underneath it to get the berries. I considered various forms of white PVC pipe with bird netting over it, but I couldn't decide on the style of framework because it seemed to me that the white pipe would glare out at you and be unsightly. Eventually they would deteriorate from UV damage as well. This year, the solution…

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East and inexpensive DIY Tutorial on how to build a blueberry cover with netting to protect berries from birds #garden #blueberryplant

This post about planting blueberry bushes is sponsored by Troy-Bilt. All opinions, project ideas, and sweat labor are my own. ;) Let's just put something out there: I've been known to have a black thumb.

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