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How to Keep Squirrels and Birds From Eating an Apple Tree
How to Keep Squirrels and Birds From Eating an Apple Tree. If you have an apple tree in your yard, you well know that the birds and squirrels can devastate the growth of your apples. In order to keep them from ruining your apple tree, there are a couple of things you can do that are cheap and work well. This article will tell you how to keep...
If you have an apple tree in your yard, you well know that the birds and squirrels can devastate the growth of your apples. In order to keep them from ruining your apple tree, there are a couple of things you can do that are cheap and work well. This article will tell you how to keep squirrels and birds from eating your apple tree. When you are finished reading it, you will be able to save the apples and be canning next summer instead of picking up remains.
Things You'll Need
8 aluminum pie pans
Kite twine
Scissors
Ladder
Gather the items for the project. With the scissors, pierce the edge of a pie pan so that when a piece of the kite twine is tied through it, it will dangle nicely. Now cut a length of twine about 2 feet long. Thread the twine through the hole in the pie pan and tie it in a knot.
Continue piercing the pie pans until you have completed all of them. Take them outside to the tree and set up the ladder against the trunk of the tree. Get as high as you can in the tree and tie at least two pie pans on branches on opposite sides, so the pie pans hang from a branch. Move down and place two more on opposite sides of the tree.
Move out towards the longer branches as you move around the tree. Continue this until all pie pans are used. Now let the leaves grow in and the birds and squirrels find another form of food.
Tips & Warnings
This is best done in the early spring so there are no leaves on the tree. This way you can get into the center of the tree to place the deterrents.
You may use more or less pie pans depending on how large your tree is.
If you notice that the birds and squirrels are still eating your apples, you may want to place more pans towards the outside of the branches.
Sometimes rubber snakes can deter squirrels and birds from an area. You can tie them to a branch that seems to be bothered more than others.
Do not attempt to climb the tree to place the pie pans.
