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Wish I could help. I think to understand these sorts of things, you need to have your brain wired that way in the first place.

Thanks goldie and Scarlet - just nicked some of OH's beer (much to his dismay when I told him what for) to put in a couple of traps down the garden!! Will see what the morning brings.

Now here is a thought, the slugs drown in the beer, happy but dead, still fairly fresh in the morning tho so why not put them out as food for the birds. It could take their eye off the fruit for a while, and if they eat enough they could be too drunk to think about the fruit anyway!

We have problems with birds and our apple trees so thanks for the CD tip....

We also have BIG problems with slugs and snails and my OH is on a campaign to kill any he sees....even if they're not in our garden....

Last night,he did the beer trap thing and there were about 20 odd of them floating in there....He thought he'd won the lottery!!

crushed up eggshells or coxxxx stones/gravel put around the plants, and beer traps work quite well (they drown happy)

My battle at the mo is with slugs and snails - eating my young veggies. Just armed myself with slug pellets (ones that don't harm domestic pets, birds, etc) and some copper stick on stuff - boy is that expensive!!! Anyone got any other tips?

thanks for that, i'll go and tie some on now

I thread mine on garden twine and then hang them from the crossbar of the plant supports but with a fruit tree you could try hanging them on string from the branches - just make sure you give them enough string to move around in the breezes.

Might seem a silly question, but would you tie them from the trees or on someting lower to the ground? thanks again!

I'm willing to try any of these to keep the blooming things off! Thanks, i was considering making a scarcrow! lol

I know that pigeons do like fruit, but stringing them between the raspberries does seem a little harsh.

I used to use milk bottle tops threaded on to string, not many people have milk bottle tops these days though.

Little bells are a good idea too, from a cat collar or chime bells.

Not sure its the pigeons that eat the fruit tho.

We tried them strung amongst the raspberries but the little blighters still ate them.Then I thought hang on you feed the birds in the garden but do not want to in the allotment,let them have some now we try and pick the fruit very early before the birds are eating the most.

Hi MaryJane - I use those too - Tiscali, AOL, don't care who the provider is - the pigeons hate em!!

you can try hanging cd's (everyone has old AOL disks around the office) from a string. the farmers here do it, so it must work.

maryjane in spain

your bad!

I have no problem with fruity birds !!! - I think I should rephrase that actually

typical nick! lol

You know I am really tempted to say something here about keeping birds off my plums, but for some reason, I think it will be more than a Double Entendre