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How to keep birds off newly seeded lawn

MeomyeMeomye Posts: 949
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Hi, I would be interested to know what tried and tested methods people use to keep birds off of their newly sown grass seed.

Thanks

 

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  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511

    Make a scarecrow. It will work long enough for your seed to germinate.

    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • MeomyeMeomye Posts: 949

    Thanks Redwing, If anyone has one of these I would love to see pics.

    I was wondering, how effective (if at all) bird repellant grass seed was, anyone used it?   

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    I don't find they touch it. Perhaps if you sow a little more heavily...some for me, some for the birds....

    It might also be time of year. In autumn, there's less food, and newly sown grass seed is an easy meal. Do you have birdfeeders out or a feeding regime for them? That might be worth doing. If it's a small area you're sowing, you can stretch netting over it. image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Dave HumbyDave Humby Posts: 1,145

    This is my method which I've used a few times.

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    The netting is very cheap lightweight stuff off of ebay. It's available in several sizes, I think the ones I purchased were 3m X 5m when stretched out. The supports are bamboo canes cut to about 10" then knocked in the ground on a 1.5m or so grid. I cut a shallow 'X' in the exposed end of each cane which the netting locates into. The netting is pegged to the ground - I used landscape fabric pegs - again, off eBay. It takes a while to suss out the technique of putting the netting down as it stretches in both directions but start at one end, peg it down the work forwards in a parallel fashion. 

    We have no chance without netting or some kind of protection as we have two resident wood pigeons! 

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  • Wilson73Wilson73 Posts: 136
    Dave Humby said:

    This is my method which I've used a few times.

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    The netting is very cheap lightweight stuff off of ebay. It's available in several sizes, I think the ones I purchased were 3m X 5m when stretched out. The supports are bamboo canes cut to about 10" then knocked in the ground on a 1.5m or so grid. I cut a shallow 'X' in the exposed end of each cane which the netting locates into. The netting is pegged to the ground - I used landscape fabric pegs - again, off eBay. It takes a while to suss out the technique of putting the netting down as it stretches in both directions but start at one end, peg it down the work forwards in a parallel fashion. 

    We have no chance without netting or some kind of protection as we have two resident wood pigeons! 


    Hi I'm going to remove thistles from my lawn soo with a tool then apply lawn sand then use a scarifying rake,can yo tell me woudl I need to use any lawn fertiliser before seeding or would that lawn sand which contains ferrous sulphate do the trick before to help seeding
  • MeomyeMeomye Posts: 949
    @warwickbear1973+8 sorry this thread is four years old. You would be better raising this query under a new discussion.  
  • Wilson73Wilson73 Posts: 136
    Meomye said:
    @warwickbear1973+8 sorry this thread is four years old. You would be better raising this query under a new discussion.  

    Gosh I hadn't seen the date thanks
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