-=> Quoting Janis Foley to Marilyn Boissoneault <=-
JF> Well I was just told today to steak each tomato plant (with
JF> maybe four  steaks for each) then after doing this... throw some
JF> netting over the whole  thing to keep birds out of your tomatoes!  I'm
JF> willing to try it because I  have a bird family living above my
JF> plants... Hmmm... How convenient! 
Fortunately not all birds are interested in tomatoes. Most of the
birds leave mine alone. I sometimes have a real problem with
Mockingbirds in the spring, in the fall they usually leave them
alone. I'm not sure why.     I've used the netting with fair
success.   One problem with the netting is that any tomato
growing on the outside of the tomato plant and near the netting
they can still get to! One year I had the netting on and a baby
grackle got caught in it. It wasn't interested in eating
tomatoes, it just wandered around on the ground nearby and got
caught. It got scared and then got really tangled in it. We had
to try to cut the net to get him out. What a job!  And what a
nice beak on that little bird!    After that experience I gave
up on the bird netting.  Didn't want to snare another bird. But I
did use it for several years before that.
Marilyn
... It could be worse......it's worse.
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