50PCS Fruit Protection Bags,16x11'' Green Netting Bags for Fruit Trees, Garden Fruit Cover Mesh Bags with Drawstring for Plant Fruit Flower and Vegetables

We have trouble with squirrels and rats eating our fruit every year. After placing these bags over our pears there was one or two attempts to eat them and never again. The only problem we had was the low hanging fruit was eaten by our dog who doesn’t care what’s in the way. He just chews through it. One thing we didn’t anticipate was the size of our pears. It’s a dwarf tree and we’ve never had a crop, so we assumed the fruit would be small. Whoops. As you can see in the photo the pears are burying the bags. If you’re not sure what size to get, estimate bigger just in case. Also give yourself time to apply the bags. It takes time and I was working with a dwarf tree. A full size fruit tree would take a whole day for me. Buy more than you think you need. You’ll use the extras next year. Buy these bags. You won’t regret it.

We have avocados, but we also have a large squirrel population. The little monsters like nothing more than to chew large holes into our fruit and then knock them down and onto the ground. To combat the squirrels, I bought these little bags. They worked great. Not one of our fruits were successfully attacked by the hairy little rodents or the crows. We also used them on our pomegranate tree with good results. Though, the next time I will buy larger bags for those fruits. These are a fantastic investment if you grow your own fruits at home.

I experimented with a few hundred of these for the summer of 2023 and here are my results.- These work great against flying inside but crawling ones will make their way through the cinched opening.- Will tend to deter birds but see note on figs below.- The color fades to yellow within weeks.- Apples: Since I already use tanglefoot at the trunks, covered apples were in excellent condition. However, the uncovered ones were barely worse. It's possible that just having some bags on the tree scares away the birds. I'll test again in 2024, but not sure this is worth the effort.- Figs: These made it very difficult to tell which figs were ripe. If we let the figs fully ripen or beyond, they became too enticing to critters and the bags got destroyed. Definitely some of it was from deer but I think the birds got involved as well. I don't think this is the solution to our bird problem.- Pluots: The rains came at the time of pollination and we got almost no fruit. The remaining was so valuable that we bagged them all. We like to let the fruit fall from the tree and normally put a net under to catch them. With the bags tied to the branches, we didn't need the net and we had 100% success at protection. On the other hand, it was a pain to tie the bags to the branches and a bigger one to untie them. I'm thinking of making a bunch of plastic hooks for 2024.- Peaches: This fruit is attached too delicately to survive the process of cinching the bag. The trees are very young so there wasn't enough fruit to try alternative methods. For 2024, I will try lightly tying to the branch.Hope that helps.

After trying an XL bag over my blueberry bush and realizing that the bush was way too big for the bag (the width was fine, but it was 3D and needed a much bigger bag than I realized), I decided to try these smaller ones out. I tried them on 2 blueberry bushes, a raspberry bush, and on the one apple left on my small columnar apple tree.These were/are excellent and I will use again and buy more. I think I will get longer ones next time, as these got a lot of fruit on the ends of the bushes, but they weren't long enough to reach in many cases (depended on the branch).50 bags sounded like a lot, but I went through them quickly on 2 blueberry bushes and one raspberry bush, and had quite a few extra blueberries to share with the animals who like to eat them.With this protecting my berries- I have gotten my best harvest ever, with more to come! (I am an amateur gardener and learning lots for sure.) I love these bags and highly recommend them!I'm excited to have one lone apple still there a month or couple after applying the bag. I believe it was a squirrel who stole the other 2 before I found these bags. I am certain without the bag, the apple would be gone like the ones before it.The bags are very easy to open and close with the ribbon that they come with.

I am doing an experiment to grow mangoes in NE Florida, 20 miles from Jacksonville. It is a grafted mango tree from Trinidad. The tree was only 18 months and had a lot of flowers in Jan 2022. It had 4 little mangoes. I forgot to cover and place the oil heater one night in Feb 2022 when the temp dropped to 40 degrees. The mangoes fell off.Jan 2023, the tree had 20 mangoes and I covered every time and placed the heater., but it still dropped 5 little mangoes.I read that some farmers used these bags to protect the fruits from insects damaging the fruits to plant their eggs.These bags stood up to the rain, sunshine and not so cold weather. I got 15 tasty and beautiful mangoes with no damage from insects. The strings to close the bags worked great to tie the mangoes up.. The bags appear to be still in good condition and I am saving them for next season in 2024. The tree is only 5 feet tall an about 4 feet in dia.I gave some of these bags to my son's wife for her pear tree and they kept the squirrels from eat the pears.

The media could not be loaded. I thought I'd love these. They seem constructed well, and have a drawstring that works well. However, I put several on fruit, and a couple on large blooms. The grasshoppers ate right through the material to get at the blooms (and destroy them). So far the bags on the fruit have survived, but I have doubts.

Does not keep the squirrels out! They chew right through them! A total waste of money time and crops! They at all of my Peaches! Do not waste your money on theses!