YGDZ Fruit Protection Bags, 25pcs 12"x8" Fruit Netting Bags Garden Drawstring Nylon Mesh Netting Barrier Bag Reusable Plant Fruit Flower Protection Bag

We have about 50 fruit trees. This is their first year producing fruit. Squirrels ate 1/3 of the green fruit (apples and peaches) before we ordered the bags.After we covered the fruit with the bags, the squirrels ate the other 2/3 by gnawing through the bags or just chewing off the stem of the fruit and then opening the bag on the ground or leaving the fruit to rot.In theory, these are a good idea. They just did not work for me.

Every year the squirrels take away all of our buckeye seeds. This year we put one of these bags over each pair of seeds - 42 seeds on this one plant - and while bushes in the wild around here and those owned by friends have all been stripped bare, we haven't lost a single one. (We pot the seeds and take them to the Master Gardener plant sale as well as giving some to friends.)To be fair, as the picture shows, a buckeye seed is not something a squirrel can easily eat through the bag like a piece of fruit, but the bags are certainly perfect for our needs.

On my first try using a few bags, my ripest tomato got well munched. The picture shows that some critter was able to make a hole in the mesh and eat almost half of a large tomato that was close to completely ripe. A day later I found one bagged pretty ripe tomato on the ground, knocked off and eaten from the opening. Putting the bags in place can weaker the attachment to the stem, particularly in less prime late-season tomatoes. Since then, I've had better luck and tomatoes have been protected. Maybe there are fewer critters out there now. I wish they closed tighter at the top. Sometimes the stitching holding the drawstring opens up. Not the perfect solution it seems to be.

I bought these fruit protection bags to keep the squirrels from destroying my backyard tomato crop. This has been a complete failure as the squirrels chewed through the vine around which the bag closes, sending the bag full of tomatoes on the vine crashing to the ground.These bags might work for insect or other protection, but not for squirrels and tomatoes.

These worked OK. Two issues- keeping the opening closed was cumbersome and required using a cinch device (but using that was in itself cumbersome). The second issue is the opening is relatively narrow. So if the fruit or fruit cluster grew too much after you encased it, you have to cut the bag to get the fruit out. Other than that, it worked as intended.