I once considered putting little plastic sandwich bags over the figs.
Fig trees are really delicate. We tried to cover them with garden fabric one time and the leaves all fell off.
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You know, I saw someone doing that with some other plant and I never considered it here in this case, what a wonderful idea, love it! I make homemade soaps I have so many of those little sheer soap bags I never used, they have little pull strings on them and would be perfect for something like this, thanks for the idea, I really love that one.
I wonder how many bags I will need per tree? That will keep me busy lol
I will add,my husband made these hoop/garden fabric things to go over all of our raised beds and we had horrible luck with those. Everything that got attacked was covered with one of those. For example, we often see tomato hornworms in our garden at some point (and we go out and pick thm off) we would go out at night with a black light and that makes them easier to see and get rid of them without using pesticides. And this year I had over 40 tomato plants and I never saw a single tomato hornworm. I did pray to the Lord to gaurd our garden and make it fruitful (which I never did before) and I was like, "Yah! Lord thanks I know t was you"! I was elated, because we live rurally, surrounded by deep woods, we have a racoon family on our land, a buck, a doe and their twin babies and rabbits and no fencing, so its pretty vulnerable. I am wondering if these hundreds of hummingbirds we feed would actually eat something as big as a hornworm (?) Not sure but I would see them land of the tomato cages and rest before going to their feeders. So no problems with anything this year. So either the caterpillers that did come and multiplied like crazy under the netting did so because their natural predators were blocked from ridding them from the area, or my husband (new at composting) did not heat up the compost piles appropriately. I am thinking its a little of both.
The netting helps keep birds off but that isnt always helpful in the caterpiller case, because they could have a buffet. But I know if I remove the neeting over the sweet potatoes I am sure the deer will gobble those up. I had planted a few in some 5 gallon containers just to see and they were stripped of their leaves in one night. I ended up breaking out the BT on the caterpillers under the netting feeding on the sweet potatoe leaves, I have to do something different here next year.
Typically though we dont have anything the animals find appealing but the sweet poatoes. And surrounding the area in garlic and onions might have helped some.
I would like to grow some fruit, for making jams, dont have anything sweet out there yet.
