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Subject: OT-Help Identify this Bite Mark Replies: 28
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The poop does look like a bear... a smallish one.  But I can't imagine how a bear would get in there without the fence being broken.  Are there berries in the poop?  That damage looks like it's from a fairly large animal.  That's a lot of damage!  Was it eating the corn, or crunching on the stalks, or both?  

Subject: Some figs, shrooms, and kraut making. Replies: 24
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We've been wanting to try making our own kraut, but haven't researched it yet.  Great to read a description of "how to".  Looks soooo yummy it's motivating me to get moving on that.

WOW  Those tree photos are spectacular!  

Subject: dark chocolate dipped figs Replies: 14
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That sounds fantastic! Anything with dark chocolate is good, but ripe figs... oh my.

Subject: New here. Osborne Prolific in CA Replies: 11
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lisascenic, Yes, I'm just north of Berkeley. 

I can't imagine trying to get rid of a squirrel population!  They are just too plentiful. So I wouldn't be relocating animals, although someone had suggested we do that with our gopher problems when we were setting traps (to kill).

I came home to another organza bag with mushed fig on the ground today.  And in picking some, found more pecked at or slightly bitten inside the bag.  Sigh.  At least we are keeping more for ourselves than in the past, but the bags aren't a sure thing.  Or maybe it's the color.  

Subject: New here. Osborne Prolific in CA Replies: 11
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Thank you, everyone!

Subject: Plants lost this past winter Replies: 44
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Oh how devastating!  I'm so sorry.

Subject: New here. Osborne Prolific in CA Replies: 11
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Hello everyone.  I've been getting some good advice from searching this forum and thought it's about time I introduce myself.

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We have an Osborne Prolific that was planted in 2011, so it's 3 years in ground now. (See photo below of when we first planted it.) We surrounded it with fencing to protect from the deer.  Then added netting to the top to keep out birds.  (They somehow got in anyway.)  Then we added netting to the bottom to keep out the squirrels.  This year we took the fencing and netting down as the tree leaves and branches were beginning to grow through it, poor thing.

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I'm trying organza bags for the first time, with some success. (Hence the decorated tree in the last photo) Figs are starting to ripen now.  Squirrels have gotten to some that they've been able to get off the tree, but they haven't been able to get into the bags, so they are pretty mushed up.  Birds are pecking the higher up ones that aren't bagged, but that's fine with me.     

We are in the Bay Area of California.  We are just beginning to eat the figs this season, and they are sooo delicious! 

I love reading about everyones' experiences, successes, struggles, questions.  Thank you all!

Subject: Who said Organza bags worked? Replies: 48
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It's my first year trying the organza bags.  (Thanks to this forum for that suggestion!) And a bowl of water (as I heard birds like the figs for the water).

I think they do keep the birds from pecking as much.  The bagged figs that I'm finding on the ground (and one still on the tree) look very mushed, so I think its the squirrels getting to them.  They haven't yet been able to rip a bag open.

I chose red with the thought that if the bags looked anything like the figs' color (ripe or unripe) it would attract pests.  So I went with bright red (plus if they didn't work out I could use them at some of the holiday times.)  But next time I'm ready for a purchase I'll look on here again to see people's experiences with color... light green perhaps.

I'm also tying some onto the branch and some I'm just closing up.  After finding a few on the ground over the past week, I'm now tying them onto branches.