[mlizzy]

Babies? Yes, that's true! Our last landlord told us when we asked if we could plant blueberry bushes on his property, "Go ahead if you want to, but it's like tossing money down a rathole. It's your loss," he said with a sneer.

He had tried unsuccessfully to grow blueberries in the past, but he never followed directions for planting in Illinois... :) He just tossed them in the ground with a bunch of peat and sulphur. So part of the reason I pampered them is that I love blueberries, but part of the reason, I think, was to prove him wrong. Ha!

Anyway, I forgot to mention before, one should always use bird netting (when the fruit is ripe) if they don't want to do battle with the birds. -lol- [This actually happened this morning. We had uncovered the blueberries recently as there were only a few small ones left.]

[Silentgypsy]

We had a bunch of grapevines at our previous home and I used to get gallon-sized nylon paint straining bags and fasten them over the grape clusters that we wanted for ourselves and our neighbors. The rest were for the birds. Since they ripened at different times, the birds told us when they were ready. The mockingbirds put on a great show—some of them sounded like creaking gates, some of them imitated cell phone rings lol!

[Black Agnes]

In an older time those of us in high tech would look at those birds on the line and declare ‘line noise!’.