32 thoughts on “5 Ways to STOP Animals EATING or DESTROYING Your Food Garden”
G'day Everyone, I hope you are all growing well and harvesting a ton! I have met dozens of you over the past few weeks (out and about) and have thoroughly enjoyed chatting with you about your gardening and life in general – thanks for saying g'day and supporting my vids! Cheers, Mark
For deterring hawks from my chickens 🐔 I use the pinwheels that I get from the Dollar &1/4 Tree 🌳. Should also work for the garden to. Can't say for sure but seems to help protect them. But these do nothing to deter 🐕 dogs that come in and attack my chickens. (Usually neighbors dogs).
We have rabbits, squirrels, field mice & crows mostly to protect against. I'm going to try and grow some veggies in a greenhouse as I know the critters cause lots of trouble to everything (even grass) that neighbors try to grow in our area. Thanks for all the great ideas!
Brush turkey pair came and destroyed my parsley and radishes. I have too small a garden and put in too much work for that to happen. If I ever see another one it's off with their heads!!!!!
A couple of motion activated sprinklers have solved my possum problem. At least for the veggie patch. They still go to other parts of the yard. Just not the main patch.
I don't have a brush turkey solution, they are diurnal – but so am I and my dog… so the sprinklers are off.
Hi love your show. I live in bronte Sydney. I had a rat and possum problem on our balcony garden and I used solar powered Xmas flashing light to scare them away. It has seemed to work. And everyday it's Xmas Yay 😊
A few years back I had one of those turkeys. It was the alpha male and it even starting trying to dominate me by coming up onto the veranda and the roof and even into the house. It destroyed everything . My son even tried using a sling and ball bearings to deter it but it just kept coming back. I think in the end it was eaten by one of 3 meter long pythons that we get here. Sometimes one of those pythons spends the winter on and around my veranda and it is a bit intimidating for a less than 5ft tall human but it is never threatening and minds its own business. And it does deter other animals that would otherwise eat the food I grow on my veranda. Btw chocolate pudding fruit (or black sapote) are delicious. They don't really taste like chocolate but mixed with cream or yogurt they look and have the texture of chocolate mousse.
It's May, it's my turn bro! Great lookin place there, I've got less than what you fit in a quarter of your screen, but it's mine to use! I even grow some really nice, healing cannabis, and I make use of the whole plant, there's much to benefit from! Last night I bought my neighbors old trampoline, I'm going to make a high tunnel out of it and double my growing space in the high desert!
Greetings from Chicago mate ! Been following you for a few years as I admire your pragmatic advice ! Love your idea on Bee pollination and birds of prey kites ! Cheers to you in sunny down under ! BTW, what is the name of your town and province?
"When the individual becomes very coçky"… That was one VERY seriously, cocky turkey you had there, no doubt!
I wanted to hold and love on it when I first saw it's antics but I have to also remember, wild animals DONT love cuddles just because I do. 😢 Watch, not touch!😂
Sounds like everyone has critter issues. Deer just found our sweet potato plants and ate the leaves. Hope they recover! They are covered with netting now. A friend of ours, for those on a shoestring budget, put up a cheap fence and tied plastic grocery bags all around. The wind blows the bags and scares away the critters. He cut out the bottom of the bags so rain water wouldn’t collect in them. Really enjoy your videos and your yokes! Lol.
G'day Everyone, I hope you are all growing well and harvesting a ton! I have met dozens of you over the past few weeks (out and about) and have thoroughly enjoyed chatting with you about your gardening and life in general – thanks for saying g'day and supporting my vids! Cheers, Mark
Just roast that turkey. Cook it and eat it. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thats proof that crows are homies
A Ruger 10/22 and a box of stingers is what we use. Just auger a hole and chuck them in afterwards.
For deterring hawks from my chickens 🐔 I use the pinwheels that I get from the Dollar &1/4 Tree 🌳. Should also work for the garden to. Can't say for sure but seems to help protect them.
But these do nothing to deter 🐕 dogs that come in and attack my chickens. (Usually neighbors dogs).
We have rabbits, squirrels, field mice & crows mostly to protect against. I'm going to try and grow some veggies in a greenhouse as I know the critters cause lots of trouble to everything (even grass) that neighbors try to grow in our area. Thanks for all the great ideas!
very "democratic" way of dealing with pests
6:09 OMG you are soo funny🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👑👑👑👑
Brush turkey pair came and destroyed my parsley and radishes. I have too small a garden and put in too much work for that to happen. If I ever see another one it's off with their heads!!!!!
Hi Mark, I love your informative videos. Thanks! (Ps they are called brush turkeys)
A couple of motion activated sprinklers have solved my possum problem. At least for the veggie patch. They still go to other parts of the yard. Just not the main patch.
I don't have a brush turkey solution, they are diurnal – but so am I and my dog… so the sprinklers are off.
Hi love your show. I live in bronte Sydney. I had a rat and possum problem on our balcony garden and I used solar powered Xmas flashing light to scare them away. It has seemed to work. And everyday it's Xmas Yay 😊
Gifted military instructor
Number 5 scared me. Good job your garden is safe…for now but I'll be back CAWCAW
A few years back I had one of those turkeys. It was the alpha male and it even starting trying to dominate me by coming up onto the veranda and the roof and even into the house. It destroyed everything . My son even tried using a sling and ball bearings to deter it but it just kept coming back. I think in the end it was eaten by one of 3 meter long pythons that we get here. Sometimes one of those pythons spends the winter on and around my veranda and it is a bit intimidating for a less than 5ft tall human but it is never threatening and minds its own business. And it does deter other animals that would otherwise eat the food I grow on my veranda. Btw chocolate pudding fruit (or black sapote) are delicious. They don't really taste like chocolate but mixed with cream or yogurt they look and have the texture of chocolate mousse.
It's May, it's my turn bro! Great lookin place there, I've got less than what you fit in a quarter of your screen, but it's mine to use! I even grow some really nice, healing cannabis, and I make use of the whole plant, there's much to benefit from! Last night I bought my neighbors old trampoline, I'm going to make a high tunnel out of it and double my growing space in the high desert!
Please i need help! I have bandicoot ssues
Greetings from Chicago mate ! Been following you for a few years as I admire your pragmatic advice !
Love your idea on Bee pollination and birds of prey kites !
Cheers to you in sunny down under ! BTW, what is the name of your town and province?
"When the individual becomes very coçky"… That was one VERY seriously, cocky turkey you had there, no doubt!
I wanted to hold and love on it when I first saw it's antics but I have to also remember, wild animals DONT love cuddles just because I do. 😢
Watch, not touch!😂
Excuse me mate, not to sound presumptuous , why not roast the Bush Turkey. You have the veggies, why not let nature provide the fowl.
Thank you again Mark, you are an absolute legend 👏
American possums are not like your possums. Ours are not afraid of open areas.
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Sounds like everyone has critter issues. Deer just found our sweet potato plants and ate the leaves. Hope they recover! They are covered with netting now. A friend of ours, for those on a shoestring budget, put up a cheap fence and tied plastic grocery bags all around. The wind blows the bags and scares away the critters. He cut out the bottom of the bags so rain water wouldn’t collect in them. Really enjoy your videos and your yokes! Lol.
Went out this morning and it appears the rats have dug up some of my spuds. Little pests.
You can use artificial snake owl like animals to deter some veg eating animals and birds
You can also hang those old burned CDs and DVDs around your garden and chicken field to deter predatory animals.
NO RELOCATION. JUST KILL THEM.
Those rainbow lorikeets are awesome.
Teddy bears for bush turkeys
I woke up to an Eagle in my chicken yard I cris crossed it with clear fishing line high enough to drive my tractor under it no more Eagles
I have been starting my vege garden recently. All my plants are still in pots, waiting on landscapers to reopen for some soil for my garden beds.
Anyways. A bushturkey came through, knocked over 10 of my chillis in pots and dug them all over my lawn 🙁