Let me know what you have done to protect from animals in your garden! If you think that the X-Pest Products in this video might help you and you want to try them out at a discount, then follow the link below for 20% off everything in the store! Good through November 30th, 2022 Vole & Mole Stakes (Set of 2): www.amazon.com/promocode/A31LDNKL7AX7ZF 20% COUPON: 20gardendoc1 Animal Repeller: www.amazon.com/promocode/A28U2J341LVNOE 20% COUPON: 20gardendoc2
Susan, I asked if they could send a new link but I haven’t received one yet…. Sorry about that! I will tell you that after having the products in for a while now, armadillos do not care about them t all! I have seen that bunnies a raccoon and a rabbit gave it a wide berth but they did stay away from it.
So glad you tested these products. I too am having problems with pests, especially the area where I bury my food scraps to prepare for planting later. Racoons dig up everything, then the rabbits come in. I may give them a try, but I see I'm too late for the discount as the link has expired
Oh I bet the raccoons do a number on those buried scraps and everything around it! I’d give these type of devices a solid maybe. .. it really depends on the attitude of the animal. Some will run away and never come back and some totally ignore it! But it’s not too expensive to not give it a try. I would suggested moving them around often as that seems to help. Yes unfortunately, they have not re-upped the promotion yet. If they do i will absolutely update the link. Best of luck and I’d love to hear how you get along with it!
Yeah everybody told me to use Irish Spring it did not help at all… Sadly fences do best on most… The rescue cats help with the moles and voles, But they have been known to destroy plants too.
Yep that’s exactly how it went for me. We used to have a few barn cats around and they did a number on the bikes but luckily the dog kept them away from the garden.
There is an old lady that uses the tin foil (aluminum foil) peanut butter trick on her electric fence. There is only one single strand of wire a foot off the ground. Any deer can walk over that. She only turns the electric fence on once every week or two. Any deer can come in when it’s turned off. So how does she do it? She puts in foil strips every ten to fifteen feet and puts peanut butter on the tin foil. This brings in the deer to her electric fence. She turns on the fence when she has the tin foil peanut butter strips out. The deer are drawn by the scent to the fence and when they try to eat the tin foil ZaaaaP! They get a shock and bound away. Now that they have learned they will get shocked she turns off the electric fence and does nothing more until the next week or two when she needs to reinforce the learned behavior in her local deer population. Pretty smart.
That is actually ridiculously smart! It also makes it more feasible to have an electrified fence since you only have to run one strand, and it’s not even running all the time. She seems like quite the industrious woman. Excellent story thank you so much for sharing I really enjoyed it!
I just talked with my friend Sauron and asked if he could help out. He is sending some worgs so you shouldn't have any problems with critters anymore. ;)
I've got problems with Deer, hogs and coyote and thinking of trying the PIR activated sprinkler. with the clack-clack noise and shot of cold water it seems like a great way to scare them off. what part of Texas are you in? I'm in Bastrop county. - great channel, I stumble on your "protecting bananas from freeze" and will be subscribing.
Hi there! It’s always great to hear from a fellow Texan! I’m just north of the Houston area, and I have the same issues, although, thankfully, I haven’t had problems with hogs in quite a while. I had a friend that used one of those motion, activated, sprinklers, and it works pretty good on most things. Around here, the deer are kind of fearless, so after being squirted a few times, it doesn’t bother them quite as much. But it does keep the more meek deer away. It’s definitely worth a try! I ended up having to just fence my garden, I didn’t wanna do it, but I also couldn’t seem to keep the critters out. let me know if that sprinkler works for you. I’d be curious to get your take on it. Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad you found family here. If I can ever help out in anyway, don’t hesitate to reach out and ask!
I live in an urban area and i've thought about getting one of those motion detector sprinklers to deter neighborhood cats. I never actually pulled the trigger on one before.
@@horsedogcatponyshow They do work very well. I talked to someone who used it. The only 2 drawbacks are you have to keep it hooked up to a hose with the water turned on and the deer start avoiding the area and find another access😄
My gophers walked and dug around the vibrating spikes.😄 We put in an 8 ft fence for deer and I used 1x8 inch boards and built a 3ft x 20ft border around each planting bed then attached wire fencing cut to fit around this. Keeps bunnies and ground squirrels out pretty well. Gophers get traps. Voles and other rodentia use regular mousetraps, put where birds can't get to them. That's how we do it at our house.
Yeah I’ve found at absolute best the sonic sticks keep them a way for a bit but after a while they just don’t care! How do you place the mouse traps for voles? On the surface or do you dig down and place them and bait them.
@@TexasGardenDoc I just placed them under things like a shoebox with the ends cut out or an old table with a lower shelf, just something to cover it but let it spring feely , (keep the birds off of it) and baited them with your standard peanut butter. Rodents like cover. You'll get to see what variety of rodents you have. We have 4 different types plus the voles when I first started doing this. It will get chipmunks too. The cats are most efficient but I'm allergic.
@@TexasGardenDoc I had never seen a vole before until I moved to Idaho 😄 Strange looking little rodent. We had chipmunks and mice devouring the garden (chipmunks love green beans, plant and all, and tomatoes). So I set out mouse traps and found we had 5 different kinds of rodentia, one being a vole. Had to ask the neighbor what it was.😆
I'm back in Texas for awhile (I'm a native) and am now trying to conquer rats. I'm on a farm so it will be a challenge. I'm going to try the water bucket treatment where you get a 5 gallon bucket, seat a dowel across the top that has a water bottle with the ends cut out and covered with peanut butter. You lean a board on it for a ladder. Costs far less than rat poison. My Uncle said they use to sink buckets of water in the graineries to catch mice and it worked really well.
THAT one is very difficult! Squirrels are about the only thing I can’t seem to keep out of my garden no matter what I do. They don’t fall for live traps. And even if they did, I wouldn’t be able to do anything with them because they just come right back. They can climb anything and everything it’s crazy! I have very tall cages around my apple trees, and the squirrels can’t get into them from the bottom, and they can’t climb up them. So I watched one dive bomb out of the top of a pine tree to get a piece of fruit. They are little daredevils! I wish I did have a great way to keep squirrels out, I do know that I used to put a mixture of cayenne pepper sauce around the base of my garden with a bird, netting fence around it, and they definitely didn’t cross that zone to try to climb that netting, however, they did still find a way in. That was the best combination I’ve ever found .
I know exactly what you mean! I will tell you that those devices, they don’t bother the squirrels at all. They look at them funny for about five minutes and then ignore them. I suppose you could use bird netting and completely encapsulate your garden. Of course, that wouldn’t keep them out forever, and it would be a maintenance nightmare, but it could work. But it really depends on the size of your garden. That could be a lot of material and a lot of work!
@@TexasGardenDoc I have bird netting the bit holes in them I zip tied the holes closed they make more hole. I’ve use peppers, moth balls, bought a owl or-dement, have a dog and cat yet these pest come back daily 😭
Yes, they do seem to be quite fearless sometimes! This last spring, we had a stray cat that would hang around the property. I’d like to lay in the sun right next to the garden. That spring, not a single squirrel, came anywhere near the garden! Although he’s moved on now, I have to wish you’d come back. They really didn’t want anything to do with him at all!
😂 I would say there’s been some questionable recommendations over the last few weeks! Lol. My feed is full of stuff that won’t go away unless I watch it as well. I’ve seen some very interesting things I have to admit! Well, I’m glad you stopped in, and I really thank you for the quick comment also. At least you know some ways to stop animals from getting food out of the garden now! Lol
@@TexasGardenDoc Some kind of spam/ad probably by someone trying to pay off their student loan. Per Google SPAM often used on yt to promote videos; often found in spam comments, or ppl who want to help increase your social following
I hope not. I mean I guess if it helps that’s good! I always do my best to take the same stances; good or bad, I have to tell it like I see it. I think these things can definitely work, but I wouldn’t say they work all the time. Heck, I’ve tried so many different things to keep all kinds of animals out! For me exclusion is works the best every time!
Let me know what you have done to protect from animals in your garden!
If you think that the X-Pest Products in this video might help you and you want to try them out at a discount, then follow the link below for 20% off everything in the store!
Good through November 30th, 2022
Vole & Mole Stakes (Set of 2): www.amazon.com/promocode/A31LDNKL7AX7ZF
20% COUPON: 20gardendoc1
Animal Repeller: www.amazon.com/promocode/A28U2J341LVNOE
20% COUPON: 20gardendoc2
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Susan, I asked if they could send a new link but I haven’t received one yet…. Sorry about that! I will tell you that after having the products in for a while now, armadillos do not care about them t all! I have seen that bunnies a raccoon and a rabbit gave it a wide berth but they did stay away from it.
I like this guy, so easy to listen to. Also he has a lot to discuss and discover. I'm glad he came my way
I’m glad you found me! I really appreciate your kind comments. Thank you so much!
So glad you tested these products. I too am having problems with pests, especially the area where I bury my food scraps to prepare for planting later. Racoons dig up everything, then the rabbits come in. I may give them a try, but I see I'm too late for the discount as the link has expired
Oh I bet the raccoons do a number on those buried scraps and everything around it!
I’d give these type of devices a solid maybe. .. it really depends on the attitude of the animal. Some will run away and never come back and some totally ignore it! But it’s not too expensive to not give it a try. I would suggested moving them around often as that seems to help.
Yes unfortunately, they have not re-upped the promotion yet. If they do i will absolutely update the link.
Best of luck and I’d love to hear how you get along with it!
Yeah everybody told me to use Irish Spring it did not help at all… Sadly fences do best on most… The rescue cats help with the moles and voles, But they have been known to destroy plants too.
Yep that’s exactly how it went for me. We used to have a few barn cats around and they did a number on the bikes but luckily the dog kept them away from the garden.
Same here
There is an old lady that uses the tin foil (aluminum foil) peanut butter trick on her electric fence. There is only one single strand of wire a foot off the ground. Any deer can walk over that. She only turns the electric fence on once every week or two. Any deer can come in when it’s turned off. So how does she do it? She puts in foil strips every ten to fifteen feet and puts peanut butter on the tin foil. This brings in the deer to her electric fence. She turns on the fence when she has the tin foil peanut butter strips out. The deer are drawn by the scent to the fence and when they try to eat the tin foil ZaaaaP! They get a shock and bound away. Now that they have learned they will get shocked she turns off the electric fence and does nothing more until the next week or two when she needs to reinforce the learned behavior in her local deer population. Pretty smart.
That is actually ridiculously smart! It also makes it more feasible to have an electrified fence since you only have to run one strand, and it’s not even running all the time. She seems like quite the industrious woman. Excellent story thank you so much for sharing I really enjoyed it!
I just talked with my friend Sauron and asked if he could help out. He is sending some worgs so you shouldn't have any problems with critters anymore. ;)
😂 Fantastic! I can use all the help I can get!
I've got problems with Deer, hogs and coyote and thinking of trying the PIR activated sprinkler. with the clack-clack noise and shot of cold water it seems like a great way to scare them off. what part of Texas are you in? I'm in Bastrop county. - great channel, I stumble on your "protecting bananas from freeze" and will be subscribing.
Hi there! It’s always great to hear from a fellow Texan! I’m just north of the Houston area, and I have the same issues, although, thankfully, I haven’t had problems with hogs in quite a while. I had a friend that used one of those motion, activated, sprinklers, and it works pretty good on most things. Around here, the deer are kind of fearless, so after being squirted a few times, it doesn’t bother them quite as much. But it does keep the more meek deer away.
It’s definitely worth a try! I ended up having to just fence my garden, I didn’t wanna do it, but I also couldn’t seem to keep the critters out. let me know if that sprinkler works for you. I’d be curious to get your take on it.
Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad you found family here. If I can ever help out in anyway, don’t hesitate to reach out and ask!
I live in an urban area and i've thought about getting one of those motion detector sprinklers to deter neighborhood cats. I never actually pulled the trigger on one before.
The sprinklers may work on the cats. A friend of mine uses them for the deer.
I’ve heard they have motion activated sprinklers just for deer and cats. I’m told they work really well
@@horsedogcatponyshow They do work very well. I talked to someone who used it. The only 2 drawbacks are you have to keep it hooked up to a hose with the water turned on and the deer start avoiding the area and find another access😄
That makes total sense! Definitely worth doing I think.
My gophers walked and dug around the vibrating spikes.😄 We put in an 8 ft fence for deer and I used 1x8 inch boards and built a 3ft x 20ft border around each planting bed then attached wire fencing cut to fit around this. Keeps bunnies and ground squirrels out pretty well. Gophers get traps. Voles and other rodentia use regular mousetraps, put where birds can't get to them. That's how we do it at our house.
Yeah I’ve found at absolute best the sonic sticks keep them a way for a bit but after a while they just don’t care!
How do you place the mouse traps for voles? On the surface or do you dig down and place them and bait them.
@@TexasGardenDoc I just placed them under things like a shoebox with the ends cut out or an old table with a lower shelf, just something to cover it but let it spring feely , (keep the birds off of it) and baited them with your standard peanut butter. Rodents like cover. You'll get to see what variety of rodents you have. We have 4 different types plus the voles when I first started doing this. It will get chipmunks too. The cats are most efficient but I'm allergic.
Very cool. I think maybe we were over complicating it in the past. You make it sound very do-able. Thank you for sharing!
@@TexasGardenDoc I had never seen a vole before until I moved to Idaho 😄 Strange looking little rodent. We had chipmunks and mice devouring the garden (chipmunks love green beans, plant and all, and tomatoes). So I set out mouse traps and found we had 5 different kinds of rodentia, one being a vole. Had to ask the neighbor what it was.😆
I'm back in Texas for awhile (I'm a native) and am now trying to conquer rats. I'm on a farm so it will be a challenge. I'm going to try the water bucket treatment where you get a 5 gallon bucket, seat a dowel across the top that has a water bottle with the ends cut out and covered with peanut butter. You lean a board on it for a ladder. Costs far less than rat poison. My Uncle said they use to sink buckets of water in the graineries to catch mice and it worked really well.
How to keep squirrels out my garden?
THAT one is very difficult!
Squirrels are about the only thing I can’t seem to keep out of my garden no matter what I do. They don’t fall for live traps. And even if they did, I wouldn’t be able to do anything with them because they just come right back. They can climb anything and everything it’s crazy!
I have very tall cages around my apple trees, and the squirrels can’t get into them from the bottom, and they can’t climb up them. So I watched one dive bomb out of the top of a pine tree to get a piece of fruit. They are little daredevils!
I wish I did have a great way to keep squirrels out, I do know that I used to put a mixture of cayenne pepper sauce around the base of my garden with a bird, netting fence around it, and they definitely didn’t cross that zone to try to climb that netting, however, they did still find a way in. That was the best combination I’ve ever found .
@@TexasGardenDoc they destroy my garden every year I’ve tried everything online
I know exactly what you mean! I will tell you that those devices, they don’t bother the squirrels at all. They look at them funny for about five minutes and then ignore them.
I suppose you could use bird netting and completely encapsulate your garden. Of course, that wouldn’t keep them out forever, and it would be a maintenance nightmare, but it could work. But it really depends on the size of your garden. That could be a lot of material and a lot of work!
@@TexasGardenDoc I have bird netting the bit holes in them I zip tied the holes closed they make more hole. I’ve use peppers, moth balls, bought a owl or-dement, have a dog and cat yet these pest come back daily 😭
Yes, they do seem to be quite fearless sometimes! This last spring, we had a stray cat that would hang around the property. I’d like to lay in the sun right next to the garden. That spring, not a single squirrel, came anywhere near the garden! Although he’s moved on now, I have to wish you’d come back. They really didn’t want anything to do with him at all!
Not sure why youtube showed me this video but ok
😂 I would say there’s been some questionable recommendations over the last few weeks! Lol.
My feed is full of stuff that won’t go away unless I watch it as well. I’ve seen some very interesting things I have to admit!
Well, I’m glad you stopped in, and I really thank you for the quick comment also.
At least you know some ways to stop animals from getting food out of the garden now! Lol
@@TexasGardenDoc i didn't watch it
@metal_pipe9764 meh, that’s ok at least if you need to know it you’ll know where to go!
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@@TexasGardenDoc Some kind of spam/ad probably by someone trying to pay off their student loan.
Per Google
SPAM
often used on yt to promote videos; often found in spam comments, or ppl who want to help increase your social following
I hope not. I mean I guess if it helps that’s good! I always do my best to take the same stances; good or bad, I have to tell it like I see it. I think these things can definitely work, but I wouldn’t say they work all the time. Heck, I’ve tried so many different things to keep all kinds of animals out! For me exclusion is works the best every time!
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