[New2veg]

Hello!  This is the first year I have grown strawberries, and they were all ripening beautifully in a pot up on a small wall.  Today, I am devastated to find that most of them have been eaten!!   

I expect someone knows who the culprit is - if so, please tell me, and please tell me how to stop it/them!!

Thanks.

[DavidT]

Good evening and welcome to the site. I would say the culprits are going to be slugs, snails or birds.

[New2veg]

Thanks, but how do you stop any/all of them?    Does netting work on strawberries?

[DavidT]

Netting to stop birds, slug pellets for the other two.

[sclarke624]

I expect someone knows who the culprit is - if so, please tell me, and please tell me how to stop it/them!!

It wasn't me honest Miss.

[realfood]

Mice, voles, squirrels all love to eat strawberries. That is why I grow most of my strawberries in boxes raised some 60 cms above ground.

[titch]

netted my strawb bed tonight, think it was birds having mine as got slug pellets under the straw mulch - but if anymore get eaten off comes the straw and out come the pellets

[wysiwyg]

solid brick wall or old stone wall?  old wall then probably mice and shrews.  but  they really need netting from the birds as well if you dont want to share!!

I have 6 plants in my green house and crop is lovely, couple every evening when watering the Tom plants!!  Last year it took me a while to figure out why i wasnt getting any rippening, in my tall planters, then noticed my troublesome chickens jumping in and spotting anything ripe enough to eat!

[sazzy123]

I have given up with my strawberries i tried everything and they still got eaten!