How to Build a Strawberry Cage: Simple way to protect your fruit from birds and rodents. || Plot 37
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2021
- Protecting Strawberries from birds and rodents is really important - The mice and the squirrels stole all my fruit last year from within the fruit cage. The big fruit cage is mainly designed to stop the birds and isn’t so good at stopping mice/rats/squirrels from taking everything as soo as they are ripe! This strawberry cage is so simple and easy to build yourself with recycled wood or anything you have around the garden or allotment.
This strawberry cage uses bird netting that has holes big enough for bees and pollinators to fly through easily.
The netting I have used for this project can be picked up here -
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The other netting that I mentioned was for brassicas ie, soft butterfly netting -
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And enviromesh/vegimesh, for allium leaf minor or carrot root fly -
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There are many ways to make a fruit/vegetable protection box like this but this is the simplest box form and it works perfectly. Protect your fruit and vegetables from birds, rodents, butterflies, caterpillars, carrot fly…all sorts!
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What a Pro, you rock! Lady, just like the poly-tunnel, you got some serious Chops...'Under cover Engineer'
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you, thank you! I have a small square raised bed of large bricks 3'x3' (built to hide and rot a tree stump) that is always a problem, what to put in it?? It doesn't provide much room for roots. Well -- STRAWBERRIES of course!! Why didn't I think of that before? Your netting box spoke to me directly and has provided me a perfect solution.
Project for a sunny Bank Holiday weekend! Thanks!
That strawberry cage looks very professional. 🍓🍓🍓🍓🤗
Someone needs to buy you a Workmate for Christmas. Sawing with your foot on a chair. Tut tut. Where's the elf and safety!
Well done job Jessie on the Strawberry Cage to protect the strawberries from pests and another excellent video.
Great job Jess! I need to build this exact cage for my lettuce and spinach to keep bunnies, birds, squirrels and raccoons away. Think I will use environet as covering. I know what I’ll be doing Saturday! 🙂🙃👍🏻🔨🪚🪛
Thank for the step by step! This is just what I was looking for! I'll be following your posts!
Beautifully done! Inspiring.
There's just something about her 👌
That blue colour in your room is soooo nice! 😍
Will watch on Saturday x
Brilliant! Saved this video for future reference. Thanks muchly.
Thank you Jessie, its a great strawberry cage
Excellent as always 💚
Love this video, I'm thinking of doing something similar for my raised beds too, thank you for sharing 🙂
Bravo Jessie 👏
I never even thought about caging my strawberries!! Thats another job I've got to do this weekend along with the runner/climbing bean frame 🙈 xx
I never thought that I should do that as well. But it helped. I had a nice 🍓🍓🍓harvest this year.
I came just to hear her say 'strawberry.'
2:16 Love how you recycled the wall paint as nail polish. 💅 😉
Lovely job jes
Great job and such a good helper 😂 I keep mine on a raised planter box (old glass table minus glass) painted red of course on the patio. Everything gets painted red in my yard ✌️🇨🇦🐝 safe
Cutting wood with one arm only 😂... great carpenter Jessie 👍
I’m loving your channel. I’m in the US, zone 7, and really like learning what’s happening in your area.
I was in Zone 7b, but Mother Nature has changed it to Zone 8a now. So glad I stumbled onto this channel!!
Good job, cheers 👍
Another great self help guide
lovely job
Thank you!
🐝Thanks for the great video🌻
Love a girl diy lol just kidding easy and simple for us newbies to follow. Thanx Jess Cheers Ontario Canada 🐝
I have just got my first large ripe 'Elsanta' strawberry on one of my plants and another couple turning red and I'm just to the north of Manchester - I am cheating a bit though, because they are in an ' Access Cold Frame' which is sort of a mini greenhouse basically - an aluminium frame with sliding glass panels in the side and roof about 3ft tall - used by commerical strawberry growers in the 1950's originally. I keep the mice out by closing up the side panels when the first fruits turn red and just open the roof of the frame for ventilation. Don't want to sound like a clever clogs! LoL. I enjoy your channel very much Jessie.
And thankx fo the polination explanation 👍
Nice idea! Thanks
I was a lot older than I should have been when I realised that hand saws have a 90 and 45 angle with a straight edge built in. I see that this knowledge is second nature to you. Very tidy job. 👍
This is groundbreaking news. Please explain.
Love how you figure out and do things on your own versus hiring outside help. You're so clever. Another great vlog ❤
Perfect 🥰
Top job..... Chaps
Nice one :D Great job :D
Awesome I will copy this
that's brilliant. how long do you expect it to last. do you keep it out
over winter?
strawberry fields forever.
great video. as usual.
tanx a rot dudette.
Hi Jess. You are a very handy lady well done. Just one ? The holes you said are large enough for bees but looking via video they seem quite small to my old eyes to let them through with wings out.
I would go upwards with the strawberries to win more growing space - and maybe some boards with barbed wire at the bottom (something that can be easiliy removed and put back on so the mice do not get on. - Oh I forgot the birds - well then a cage over it. Where I live slugs are the main enemy of strawberries.
Slugs are rampant in my garden! The beer traps I’ve been putting out have worked wonders!!
Do you find the wooden sides encourage slugs?I live in damp southwest.Well done kiddo!
You’ve got a great mum
Hi Jess, are you using a wood staple gun to attach the netting to your struts?
11:00 there is netting that keeps flies and pests out (like for carrots and brassico that do not need pollinators), or netting that allows the bees to come in and out but keeps the mice and birds away (would likely not work against a racoon in the U.S.). The company that supplies the netting is Gardening Naturally, she says the netting is quite strong.
The netting is strong but supple and pulling it tight gives extra stability to the box. She made it lightweight so it is easy to move and because she had the wood.
Mice and rats would chew right through that netting.
Well done Jessie. No bother to you x
Hi Jessie, thank you for that video. Wondering what type of paint would you use, if you were to paint it?
When I paint mine, I use shed or fence paint. Anything that's for external use on wood. Helps it last a bit longer
I definitely should do a couple of those for next year... The birds have been "on fire" this year... decapitating courgette and tomato plants like crazy😤
I built cages for raised bed strawberries using 1" poultry wire but the strawberries still disappear. No slug trails, no way birds and rodents get in. Had lots of little strawberries one day and all of them gone the next.
sparrows and blackbirds are big fans of my strawberries 🤣 They only want the water from the fruits, so putting out water for the birds supposedly prevents them quenching their thirst on our ripe strawbs.
Welcome to Thursday :-)
This looks great but I need something stronger than garden netting as the squirrels have sharp teeth and they are biting holes in my netting and eating my strawberries 😢
😢susancolley168.....I saw where someone painted stones red (the size of strawberries) and placed them in the strawberry bed WAY BEFORE the berries ripen! The squirrels and birds try to eat the "red strawberry stones" and don't like the "hard berries" and leave them alone! Then when the real berries are ripe they are not interested!!!! It worked for them!( take stones out after berry season is over so the animals don't catch on....they are smarter than we give them credit for!!!)Hope it works for you!😊❤🍓🍓🍓( or you could use hardware cloth instead of netting!)
I need to do this for mice. But won't they chew through that netting? Should I use metal wire?
Yes they would chew right through that netting. Only keeps birds out. This wouldn’t work to keep rodents out.
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Does a 2cm gap really stop a mouse?
That wouldn’t stop a mouse. They would chew right through that netting she used
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Next time, can you build a Nicholas cage? 😊
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The only critical measurement is the width, so 120cm for the length would have been OK, just would push the cage 1 inch closer to the rubbs, no biggie ..... Or am I being an idiot ?
You're not, it would have worked just fine. But this has the advantage of the cage being square on the outside, so she can just rotate it whatever way she wants and it will fit the bed.
@@das_hanski True, but given how tight it was the measurements would have to be really spot on to rotate it...
Still great build, more than I have done for my poor wee SBs :)
@@BGazzah Only Jessie knows if it actually works. 😉
@@das_hanski Oh Im sure she will keep us all well informed :)
Have you not got a boyfriend? If not, why not? Sorry if that's a bit nosy.
Bit personal mate! Mind your manners. She’s educating and sharing her tried and true gardening experiences and expertise, which we adore her for. Don’t muck things up being a sticky beak! Mind ya own bees wax! 🐝🐞🦋🐛🍓🥬🥦🌶
@@peascarrots6829 lol we have a suitor