Hang some red Christmas ornaments in the tree or use rocks. 

feed them away from your fruits. move feeders depending on where you want them not to be. you cannot get rid of all the birds, and it would be sad if you did

They tried getting rid of all the birds once in China. 


"The "Four Pests" campaign was introduced in 1958 by Mao Zedong, as a hygiene campaign aimed to eradicate the pests responsible for the transmission of pestilence and disease: the mosquitos responsible for malaria; the rodents that spread the plague; the pervasive airborne flies; and the sparrows – specifically the Eurasian tree sparrow – which ate grain seed and fruit.[1] The government also declared that "birds are public animals of capitalism".[2] According to some eyewitnesses, citizens would bang pots and pans so that sparrows would not have the chance to rest on tree branches and would fall dead from the sky.[3] Sparrow nests were also destroyed, eggs were broken, and chicks were killed. In addition to these tactics, citizens also resorted to simply shooting the birds down from the sky.[4] These mass attacks depleted the sparrow population, pushing it to near extinction.[4] Furthermore, contests were held among enterprises, government agencies, and schools in cleanliness.[3] Non-material rewards were given to those who handed in the largest number of rat tails, dead flies and mosquitoes, or dead sparrows."

Its rotting from the cold wet winter.  Mine rotted at the ground and tipped over.  Papaya is a waste of time in CA IMO. 

Big healthy slips

5 for 40$ shipped  in California
45$ shipped outside California

Theres no frost here, it gets to the mid 30s a few nights a year.  Very few hours under 40 this year.   Its not the absolute lows its the prolonged winter thats a problem. 

The hass right now are super good too.  Sharwil is amazing and they ripen to a high oil level earlier than hass.  Its a really early season fruit in my yard.

Heres the Lamb hass tree, havent started picking these yet.  Its an awesome tree.

We did a taste test with these varieties the other day.  Reed, hass, ardith, sharwil, sir prize, pinkerton.  Reed and ardith need more time so not fair for them.  Sharwil, pinkerton, and hass are consistently the best fruit off my trees.  Im going to say all around best tree and fruit is hass.  The fruit quality is superior, the tree grows well, maes tons of fruit, and they hang forever.  Sharwil also good all around but I need more years to see how the trees perform here.

The lilikois fo well during summer but get hit by the cold.  Im yanking both my yellow plants.  Obe was really large and made fruit but it was just not happy in winter and looks bad after winter. 

They will sprout if you leave them around.  Easy to start in pots too.

Squirrelinator trap with bread in it.  And shoot them if you can also. 

Yeah cut them or they will start taking all the energy.  I cut those low branches up 1.5ft off the ground at least or it will be on the ground when it fruits. 

Cut the branches nearly flush with the trunk so thry dont resprout.

Its san francisco, you can put everything in full sun. 

Had one drop off and we ate it for dinner.  Was pretty good but they need another month to get more oil.