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  • How to Build a Cheap and Simple Scarecrow

    Jul 21 2010

    Last year my strawberries were protected by a chicken wire mesh but as I’m scaling up my garden in size it’s not practical to use that kind of protection against birds. The best thing would probably be a large plastic netting that could easily be spread out over the strawberries and easily be removed again.

    This year I’m testing a cheap and simple solution – meet the CD-ROM scarecrow:

    What better things to do with your ancient computer CDROM’s than scare away birds from your precious strawberries?

    Just have to think of something to scare off cats as well… :D (Hmm, maybe a CD player with barking dogs?)

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