Voss said:
You fool! Those strawberries were the only distraction I had! Now the snail will resume his hunt for me again. Time to relocate.
Mikel said:
lol we just looked at our peach tree, but some how the squirrel buggers got in. Left us pips😂
Damn that sucks. I’m happy I don’t have squirrels where I live. They look pretty cute but I’ve heard they steal lots of fruit.
Slugs and snails are the worst I have to worry about. Birds don’t seem to care about my garden.
@Mikel
Do squirrels try to attack people?
The thought of a squirrel 
trying to fight me seems very funny. I assumed they would be scared little fluff bunnies.
I swear by those bags! A YouTuber I follow says to use green ones to “disguise” the red/orange color of ripe fruit and it works so well!
Gale said:
I swear by those bags! A YouTuber I follow says to use green ones to “disguise” the red/orange color of ripe fruit and it works so well!
I use all sizes of the green ones on select tomatoes, most of the peppers and all the eggplants. The snail damage is way down. If I don’t close the bag securely, bugs will get in. I’ve never had a squirrel chew off a fruit at the stem, but I leave most of the tomatoes unbagged so they get a couple, which is fine.
At some point it is probably just cheaper and easier to buy the strawberries than to stick a potpourri bag on each of them🤷♀️
Haru said:
At some point it is probably just cheaper and easier to buy the strawberries than to stick a potpourri bag on each of them🤷♀️
I like to garden for fun not for saving money . Growing things makes me happy. Hopefully I can reuse these potpourri bags for a good amount of time.
At what point do you put the netting/bags on them? Right after they flower?
Scout said:
At what point do you put the netting/bags on them? Right after they flower?
After they have been pollinated by bees or my paint brush. I bag them once the flower starts to fruit. Don’t want to bag it before it’s been pollinated.
Only been about 2 weeks using the bags.
So far no insect damage on the fruit.
I wonder if this would work for my squirrel problem
Bailey said:
I wonder if this would work for my squirrel problem
It did on my plum tree. They only got one or two and decided it wasn’t worth the hassle.
On larger fruit, like mangos, old socks work pretty well too.
I use these to gather California native wildflower seeds if there are already plenty of blooms for the pollinators.
Img thank you for this post and idea! I have bunches of these little string bags from years of random Etsy purchases and this seems like a great way to repurpose them. I’ve seen some comments saying that the stem had been chewed through by other people trying this. Still seems worth the shot. Thanks!!!
Those look great! I should really do this next year. This year we only had a few and even then most got eaten by bugs.