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HOW TO CHOOSE A DETERRENTGardeners and farmers the world over compete with wildlife to harvest their crops. The ideal of tree-ripened fruit can be a real challenge to achieve! Green Harvest offers 2 main choices, either exclusion or deterrence. The choice you make will depend upon your individual circumstance and the plant you are trying to protect. Deterrence is particularly useful for ornamental plants and when the problem is widespread, affecting many plants. It can work well on birds, possums and fruit bats depending on the product used. Often more than one strategy is needed, with the strategy changing over time, as animals can get used to the deterrent and ‘familiarity breeds contempt’. The aim is ‘behaviour modification’ so to be successful, a strategy must be repeated often enough to retrain every individual animal that is a threat to your garden. A ‘once only’ encounter may not change forever the patterns of behaviour of an individual animal. Starting early enough is critical; once a crop is already being enjoyed it is very difficult to change the behaviour.
This product works by signalling danger to the birds that seem to associate the reflecting sunlight with fire. The super strong, long lasting space-age plastic tape is bright red on one side and silver on the other. Can be used on row crops or fruit trees by cutting pieces to length and securing from stakes, or draping over branches or making pom-pom bunches and tying them on. Each roll is 90 m long. PE123 1 - 4 rolls $15.00 eachPE124 5+ rolls $9.50 each
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BIRD CONTROL Exclusion is an organic, environmentally sustainable and cost effective method for discouraging birds and fruit bats from your fruit trees. When using netting the Australian Bat Conservation Society recommends that you avoid thin nylon/monofilament netting and that the netting used is stretched taut over a frame, with a mesh size less than 40 mm. On average a 3m tree requires 10m x 10m of netting or shadecloth. It is necessary to join 2 pieces of 5 x 10 to achieve a 10 x 10 piece, it is easy to do this using UV-treated shadecloth twine. Drape the netting directly over the tree prior to fruit ripening, however for ease of removal and tree health a light weight frame is recommended.
Bird Control Net PE143 5m x 5m $19.50
Bird Control Net - Larger size 5m x 10m
PE144 1 - 4 nets $36.00 each
PE145 5+ nets $33.00 each PLEASE READ: Ordering one of these items using the 'add' button only enters one on your order form. Before completing your order, please remember to adjust the quantity.
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100% natural, biodegradable spray that will help deter possums. Please see
the information above about how deterrents work. The success of
this type of strategy is related to how desperate the animal is
for food. It may just prefer your roses over anything else or it
may have nothing else to eat. If this is the case no amount of
spray will help as the animal will probably eat it anyway. The bitter
herbal oils may also deter rabbits and kangaroos from eating your
plants, without harm to the animals. The spray contains plant
foods to promote re-growth at the site of attacks.
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