Birds eating my tomatoes

[Bowhunter87]

Pick them when they start turning orange on the bottom, let them ripen in the house.

[zztex]

Pick them as soon as you see the first hint of pink. Ripen in the house. They will be awesome

[CWP]

Trick I used to use is to hang a few empty red soda cans on each plant..preferably before you have any ripe tomatoes. Still might lose a few, but they peck at the cans then leave.

[jak]

I hang CD's from above the garden. The spinning and the flashing must bother them because it has worked this season. Birds ate most our crop last year.

[chief262]

Hang red styrofoam Christmas balls up.

[Fla Hunter]

I use black rubber snakes on my tomato plants.

[muzzlebrake]

Mockingbirds serve absolutely no useful purpose on this earth whatsoever.
Kill em all!
I use a netting on all my fruit trees. It's called Bird-X. When mockingbirds get tangled in it I just leave them and let em die.

[haztech3]

If you were closer I would lend my 10 yr old son.He is hell on wheels with his red rider.He keeps the birds and rabbits out of our garden.Last week I set him loose with his bow and this is what he came back with

[tkuehn5410]

Hang red styrofoam Christmas balls up.

Or Red Shiny ones that are glass!

[W-O]

Many years ago I knew someone who put rat traps in the fig trees to catch birds. Can't do that now and I would say netting would be the best bet. I have had them land on the rubber snakes.

[JohnBoy]

I don't have a bird problem but the deer are tearing my garden up. Any ideas to keep the deer out with out building a fence?

[stickman]

Fishing string. Weave it around your garden, most birds once hung in it will stay clear. Works down here on the coast to keep seagulls away from outdoor eateries.

[talltexasshoote]

Aluminum pie plates hung on fishing line so the spin and flash do the trick. Movement and flashing really freaks them out. Works on squirrels as well.

[Johnny]

Pick them as soon as you see the first hint of pink. Ripen in the house. They will be awesome

This. At the first hint of pink on the bottom of tomato, pick em and bring em in. The are through growing and will get nice n red within a couple days. Problem solved.

[dragonsdaddy]

Mockingbirds serve absolutely no useful purpose on this earth whatsoever.
Kill em all!
I use a netting on all my fruit trees. It's called Bird-X. When mockingbirds get tangled in it I just leave them and let em die.

we agree completely.

signed,

millions of grasshoppers you deserve