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Deer Park WA

Help my cover crop is being devored by flocks of Sparrows. I foolishly wasted about $30. in cover crop seeds by not killing every Sparrow/Starling in town! I raked in the seed after amending, plowing, and seeding and they still ate over 1/3 of it. I plan to reseed tomorrow and cover it with a little straw. Any ideas as to keep out the vultures untill my crop sprouts? P.s I would never kill an animal unless I planned on eating it, and Starlings taste like crap!!!

10/2/2001 12:11:32 AM

Ga.

Thats just nature Gads,,getting ready for winter,,let them eat...

10/2/2001 7:19:15 AM

Rexburg, Idaho

Scarecrows?

10/2/2001 8:58:36 AM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

you could spend a few hundred bucks and get a propane cannon that fires off a big boom every few minutes..

10/2/2001 9:01:28 AM

western Kentucky

shotgun

10/2/2001 10:05:45 AM

Buffalo, NY

Hey Gerry, try Reemay floating row cover. It's light like gauze and lets water, air & light in. It also gives a few degrees of frost protection, and if you lived in the east like me you can wrap your vines next year with it to help protect against SVB's (that's right, you don't have that problem-yet.) Or you can try burlap the way it's used on grass, or bird netting suspended about 6 inches above the ground.

Hope this helps.
Mark

10/2/2001 12:29:28 PM

Utah

you could cover the patch with tarps or old sheets or something like that- till the cover crop started to sprout.

10/2/2001 12:30:04 PM

Buffalo, NY

If you are using winter rye, etc, try tamping the seeds over so the soil if firmly covering them. Are they eating your seeds or first sprouts?

Mark

10/2/2001 12:32:29 PM

Deer Park WA

I think I will just deal with them and keep reseeding!

10/3/2001 1:29:48 AM