[Arid_gardener] Protecting figs from birds

[Bill Woody]

Several years ago my wife thought of a way to save her figs from the birds.
I put a clean, old sock (or half a sock) over the figs as they begin to turn
color.  Thereafter we check for ripeness by a gentle squeeze of the fig in
the sock.  This also helps the bug problem a lot.

Bill Woody 

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Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 14:22:20 -0700 (MST)
From: marriportia at yahoo.com
Subject: [Arid_gardener] Question from Home-Hort WWW page
To: <arid_gardener at Ag.arizona.edu>
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85020
marriportia at yahoo.com

Hi, I have a large fig tree that fruits 2x per year. How can I harvest ripe
figs before the birds eat them? Also when I cut the figs open they often
have insects inside. How can I prevent bugs from getting in the fruit
without using a toxic insectacide?


thanks




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Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 20:51:28 -0700
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