I have a row of blackberry vines in the back yard.
Over the years, I have learned that I have to keep them trimmed back.
One small bush can produce an enormous amount of berries.
If you can’t harvest the fruit fast enough, it attracts flies.
Enormous, man-eating horseflies.
That bite.
So, yeah, I’ve got to keep those vines trimmed back.
This year, however, after I harvested my first round of berries and made one batch of blackberry jelly, the birds got to the fruit.
They picked my entire crop clean!
On the first day they got all the ripe berries.
And after that, they took the rest.
Seriously?
When the Grown Son was small, he thought we should install a scareclown in our garden.
It could throw pies at the birds.
It’s an ingenious idea; however, there might be a secondary problem with all of that pie debris.
Instead, I have tied some shiny, bird-scaring ribbon to my vines.
Hopefully I can get a second crop this summer.
Stupid birds.
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