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How To Keep Birds Out Of Your Veggie Patch

Ruth Gilmour

Last updated: September 15, 2026

The neighbours aren’t the only ones admiring your garden. Birds love to fly by and swoop in to admire it too. If your garden includes fruit trees and vegetable plants, birds are likely to find it even more attractive.

Once they start nibbling away on your fresh vegetables and leaving droppings on your patios and plants, you will want to know how you can get rid of the birds flocking your yard.

Fortunately, there are a number of steps you can take to protect your garden from birds:

1. Create physical barriers

Build an inexpensive framework in your garden to protect vulnerable plants. Bamboo poles, fence posts, or tall stakes can all be implemented to create a surrounding structure. Once built, drape netting over the framework and anchor it to the ground with bent wire. This way, the net cannot blow away and will guard birds from harassing your plants.

2. Use visual deterrents

Simple visual devices can be effective in warding off a number of bird types including pigeons, starlings, blackbirds, and woodpeckers. Attaching iridescent bird deterrent foil strips to fence posts, trees, or rooftops, will scare birds away.

3. Give the garden a bad taste

A food-grade biodegradable spray, which has a bitter and unpleasant taste, will keep certain birds away from your garden. The spray is composed of methyl anthranilate, which targets the birds’ taste and smell senses, but does not harm the environment. Spraying your garden will make it unappetizing to birds and other hungry pests.

4. Consider making a little noise

Audible deterrents replicate distress and predator calls. A bird's hearing is on the same level as humans, so ultra-sonic sound devices will not work. Look for regular sonic devices that will constantly generate sounds that birds find threatening.

How do you keep birds out of your veggie patch? Share you tips below!