Best fruit tree protection method from bids and squirrels 

Thank you for the tip

Thanks! I appreciate it!

Let me know how it works out!

Thanks Paul! Please let me know if it works for you. I am gathering more of these plastic containers now in the winter to protect even more peaches next year. I also use them to protect my plums and persimmons and tomatoes, so you can see this method works well for a lot of fruits. One tip is to try to clip the fruit right in the middle of the container, because it the fruit is touching the sides of the container (which have some small openings), some animals may be able to scratch or bite the skin of the fruit. I look forward to hearing from your experience with this method! Subscribe to the channel to help my channel grow! Thanks!

Plastic won’t stop a rodent. Check out the website QYFIRST to see available wire mesh bags. They are reusable and will protect your fruits and vegetables.

I hope it works for you!

It works very well here. And the bonus is that you can wait for the peaches to fall into the boxes, so you know they are ripe.

Is it working to protect your fruit?

of course it does....but the next question is, does it stick to the fruit, and will a quick rinse in water remove the contamination....but wait, theres more....rinsing it in water from the faucet may be depositing some other toxic mineral or chemical on the fruit... Better off just getting your fruit from the frozen food aisle, so you have no idea what really happened to the fruit and just hope for the best.

@@ldlink3935 lmao😂😂. The reality of living and consuming in America is becoming a big joke.

They need bpa free plastic containers in fruit

If your containers have no holes, then yes, you should. The containers I use are already full of wholes.

@@self-sufficienturbangarden5009They clearly have holes. My problem is bringing in a ton of plastic nothing, to solve a problem I possibly could cure another way with WAY less effort. Sure I own machine guns and what ever else the world thinks us yanks have, but I'm getting old and I need a long term solution. poison? Base of the tree shields so they can't climb up? Netting from amazon, over the entire tree?

This is what I was afraid of! Still looking for a method to protect my apples!

We have two peach trees in our yard that we've had for I'm going to say a good 9 plus years. We've never had a single peach! I tried this container method and if they don't chew through it the peach ends up falling off the tree while they attempt to get it. Where is oak trees all around the neighborhood and now our neighbors have peach trees in their yard as well. It's terrible because it's so damn hard to grow ANYTHING because of these bastards. I had a greenhouse and they chewed that too. 🤬ING squirrels?

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Hi Estella. I dont have cherries here yet, but I imagine I would try the same thing, even though they are small.

I have cherry trees. I get average of 18 gallons a year. I have to use bird nets. When they start to blush, the dirty are on them till gone. Home depot has nets. 14ft x 45 ft is about 20.00.

​@shelbyw6140 this doesn't work with squirrels does it? I've had my trees for 10 years and not one peach. From two trees! It's a nightmare. I can't have barley anything i grow because of the squirrels. One of them just chills on my fence and looks into my kitchen window. Literally laying down on the top of a 4 by 4 post. 🤬

I cant tell how effective it is, we dont have many storms here. But it is worth a try, since it may have add some protection against the wind and rain.

@@self-sufficienturbangarden5009 I'm going to try this next year for sure. Everything else I've tried hasn't worked. Just lost my last peach today. uuuuggg! LOL. great video thank you for this!

Possibly, but they should be transparent for the sun to go through, and you also have to be careful with the heat. If it is too hot there, flimsy plastic may melt.

Yeah, I see them almost everyday eating my peaches right now, and the peaches are small and green, far from mature. I find that they never really go for the ones in the plastic containers, so at least those I definitely save!

I dont currently have grapes here. One person I know growing grapes had a hard time fitting the grapes inside the container. The bunch of grapes was too large for the container. I am starting to grow a fig tree, but it is so small that I have bird netting around it for now. I assume you can use the plastic containers too, but it is just harder to wrap the figs because of the location they usually sprout from the tree. (peaches sprout at easier locations to wrap them without having to break the branches/leaves)

Yes, I use this method every year, and it works very well.

@@self-sufficienturbangarden5009 Thanks I'll try it. I'm at my wits end with the freakin squirrels!

Hi Maria. I am not sure how to save the flowers. My trees have so many flowers, hundreds of them (maybe thousands if I count all trees combined) that even if the squirrels eat flowers, there is just too many and fruit will come out anyways. You should not use the plastic containers on the flowers because if wont let bees in to pollinate.

@@self-sufficienturbangarden5009 right. I had thousands of flowers too but nothing at all now. Today i saw only one small Avacado. Sir please help and let me know what i should do. Iam truly working hard on my garden.

Maria, If your flowers aren’t setting and turning into fruit it could be a lack of pollinators or maybe your tree is not self pollinating. The temperatures could be too high, the nutrients in the soil could be missing for that type of fruit tree or it could be in the wrong climate. There are too many factors for anybody to actually tell you what the issue is without knowing where exactly you are and your soil condition and all the other needed information.

@@agustin8859 good morning, i have a few Avacado's already. If you could give me your watsapp number i could send you the picture of it. It was full with flowers but at the end nothing much. I saw the squirrels eating and after i tied my dog close to the tree we have a few of those at present. Thank you very much 🙏 dear and God bless you forever 🤝🌹👍

No, they never chewed through these plastic containers. I guess I am lucky? Or the squirrels here are not too bad.

I’m going to try it, I’ll let you know! This is the first year we’ve had any peaches so I’m going to be sad if they get eaten by not me!

The first year I tried this none of my peaches were eaten. This year the squirrels figured it out and chewed through all the plastic clam shells.

They can eat bugs