While prevention and site maintenance will keep rabbit activity down, there are tactics for co-existing with rabbits instead of asserting complete dominion over your garden space. Perhaps you can share a little of what you have, and consider it benevolent charity to animals in need. ...
Maintaining a vegetable garden involves patience and hard work. One of the responsibilities of a gardener is to make sure that the vegetable garden is safe from pests and animals. Animals such as deer or rabbits can invade a vegetable garden, causing damages to the property as well as loss o...
It's finally summer: the air is warm, the kids are out of school, and your vegetable garden is growing. But there are some pesky animals eyeing your kale, chard, and broccoli plants. Are you surrounded on all sides by deer, groundhogs, and other critters? Keep animals out of the ...
How To Keep Animals Out Of Garden Lush greens, blooming flowers, and fruitful trees are a joy to see whenever you take a stroll in your garden. However, it’s not just us humans who find it appealing. If you go through your vegetable garden and flower beds and find half-eaten fruits...
8. Create a rock garden perimeter © Barbara Helgason – stock.adobe.com The next way to deter deer from your flower beds is to create a rock garden around the perimeter of your yard. (You’ll see this tactic used at a lot of modern zoos to keep the animals in their enclosures.) ...
Our last suggestion on how to keep cats out of your yard is to contact a shelter. Many local shelters can assist you with stray animals. Whether they come to rescue the animal or guide you on what to do next, they can sometimes provide helpful tips to get you on the right track. Man...
Shocking but true: electric fencing is highly effective at keeping deer and other pest animals out of farmland, pastures, or other rural land. 5. Other fencing High cost but permanently effective if you choose the right fence design.
Nothing is quite as disappointing as heading out to the vegetable garden to collect your prize only to find that a critter has beaten you to it. Even ornamental plants aren't safe, as many animals will eat a wide variety of plant leaves and leave your flower beds looking ratty. The truly...
Floating row covers can prevent deer and a number of other pests from snacking on your food crops. Fabric, plastic, wire or mesh supported with a hoop frame creates a physical barrier to keep out deer, small animals and some insects. Floating row covers in a vegetable garden by Scot Nelson...
If you are on the war path against these hungry critters, you may not like the idea of doing them a favor, but those with a little extra land and a love of animals might be able to keep their own garden produce if they plant a second veggie patch for the woodchucks. ...