Last year the wildlife took the entire grape harvest. This despite us bagging each grape cluster with tulle AND deer netting AND plastic sheeting. They took everything.
This year we tried clamshells and it worked really well. We wouldn’t say it was perfect because the slots in the clamshells allowed wasps, earwigs, ladybugs, etc., to claim some of the harvest. The slots allow us to secure the clamshell to the grapevine using metal wires, provide ventilation and drainage when it rains so we didn’t want to block them.
It remains to be seen whether the wildlife will figure out a way to overcome the clamshells by next year’s harvest, but we’re hopefully optimistic.
