Greetings, I recently started a new raised bed in the yard out of old galvanized metal roof panels I had laying around as I ran out of room in the greenhouse’s. Planted some leafy greens such as Vates Blue Scotch Kale and Black Simpson lettuce. Seedlings just started to come out and I was impressed with how quickly the Cardinals came out to mow them all down. I put a quick screen over it for now to give the seedlings a chance, but man, wasn’t expecting that so quick. Anybody else run into that situation as well? Do they eventually let up once the plants mature a bit? Thanks for reading and Cheers!

  • rescue_toaster@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 天前

    Interesting. I’ve never had problems with my greens seedlings. Though we don’t have many cardinals around here. Are they the only bird that you’ve seen for after them?

    • BuckFutter@timeyak.comOPEnglish
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      2 天前

      Thanks for the comment! Cardinals are the only ones that i have caught, we have plenty of finches and sparrows that frolic around, but I haven’t caught any of them in the bed or greenhouse’s before grabbing seedlings. The screen seems to be holding up so far and working… 😀

  • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 天前

    Seems they eat seeds, weeds, buds etc. I’d personally start stuff off indoors on windowsill and once started, transfer to ground. I guess netting can also help. Birds love seeds so usually folk top with layer of dirt if laying grass seed etc. But depends how capable the birds are.

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 天前

      Agreed. Start indoors or use netting. I try to attract birds to my garden, but they need to let there be a garden first!

    • BuckFutter@timeyak.comOPEnglish
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      3 天前

      Thanks! Yah i usually grow most of this indoors in a greenhouse but the heat this year has been rough so I thought I’d try something different. Yah they had left the seeds alone and were munching on the new shoots, careful to leave just a single stem remaining but picking off all the new shoots/leaves. Oh well thanks for the reply.