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Get Rid of Birds by Putting Fake Fruits on Your Garden Crops

This woman's friends and family laughed at her gardening hack. Until it started showing results, that is. She began painting rocks to look like strawberries because she learned that if you put them around berry plants and bushes before the fruit appears, the birds will peck the red rocks. Since these birds don't like pecking super hard surfaces, the idea is they will eventually leave the fruit alone - including the real fruit once it starts to grow.

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"We had about eight crows day after day, out by my raspberry bushes, and after the rocks were placed around... no crows," this brilliant garden-lover reported.