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peanut butter 
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 9:29am |
this is my first attempt at gardening and I planted some strawberry plants..yum!!!!!
Unfortunately they have sucumbed to a "pest" that eats all the berries as soon as they are red. I dont think sprays will work. I have caught this "pest" at work and he has a HUGE smile on his face, with red dripping down his jaw. Wish I had a photo but it seems............
Tom loves strawberries and helps himself to them straight off the plant. I even caught him having trouble breaking the fruit off so he just bites it off the plant. Kinda cute..
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Bizzy
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 9:31am |
i have a couple of pests like that around here too! 
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 9:33am |
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LOL. At least your hard work is being appreciated by someone.
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 9:45am |
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wow your strawberries are ripe already? I must be doing something wrong :(
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 9:55am |
hahaha that IS pretty cute
Are they in a bed or a big pot?
Could you put some chicken wire, or plastic caging around them?
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 10:00am |
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LOL Benjy does that too, so disappointing when I go out there thinking there will be some ready for me to eat and they're all gone!
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 10:39am |
 caraMel wrote:
LOL Benjy does that too, so disappointing when I go out there thinking there will be some ready for me to eat and they're all gone! |
especially when they are half eaten!!!
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 10:42am |
oh how cute! i have some left over black netting from ours if you want it just yell out
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 1:11pm |
teehee I got the same kinda pests, but mine eat them green & will even demolish the new flowers & leeaves 
The "bigger pest" is there daily to nap the red ones
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 2:31pm |
Leah does this too and has also been known to eat the green ones as well
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 2:33pm |
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I used to do this to my granddads crop. He'd be gutted, one visit from me and that was his strawberries gone! Sooo yummy, when will we get decent strawberries in the shops?
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peanut butter
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 3:20pm |
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We only have ours in pots but I said to DH "Can you just picture it when we have enough land to have proper rows of strawberries....we'll come out to find Tom covered in red and little peppercorn getting "taught" how as well"
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Posted: 10 November 2008 at 5:50pm |
You will need to cover them as if that pest is getting to them the other pests will get them too.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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Posted: 11 November 2008 at 2:23pm |
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DF is my pest! he always scores the best ones too. Xavier thinks its funny to mush them up. he doesnt even like strawberries!!!
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Problems with my strawberry crop
