If you have ever seen a fruit tree with random bags on the fruit, then this episode is

for you to tell you both why that's happening, but also why you should be doing it in your

own garden, not only for fruit, but also for seed. So Natalie, you know, as our resident

permaculturist, homesteader, in chief, you have an interesting background and maybe it's

time to actually touch on that a little bit if you want to. But you've saved seed quite

a bit and you've protected fruit quite a bit and so you're using these sasks to do it.

Yeah. Sash bags are really great because they're pretty cheap. My favorite thing about them

is that they're just a couple of cents a piece. You can get like a hundred of them for five,

seven bucks in different sizes. And they're those little mesh bags. If you've ever

been to like a fancy wedding and they have like those candies and those little mesh bags,

that's what a sash bag is. Okay. Got it. Like those little pastel almond-pastel things.

Exactly. Exactly those. And so what you do is if you have a fruit that you want to protect,

it can literally be any fruit, a strawberry, a tomato, a citrus, a fig, then what you do

is when you see that little fruit forming, you take that sash bag and you gently cinch it

around that fruit and that will keep any pests or anything that you want away from it.

If you're me and you like diatomaceous earth and you also put diatomaceous earth on that

fruit covered in the bag and then it's like extra primo protected. The other thing that

I really like to use the sash bags for is saving seed because what I've noticed is since

I try not to kill things in my garden, things like to eat the seeds, aka the parrots that

we're eating my beautiful sunflower seeds. Right. I wanted the parrots but I want some

seeds too. So I took a sash bag and I put it over like a whole sunflower and I'm going

to leave it there because sunflower seeds take a while to like mature. You don't want

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