Baby Rabbits in the Garden, Food Forest Shrubs and Trees, Bugs!

[@jefferybublitz7968]

Hello Shawn, I have found out th hard way, that in th drier times of summer, that mice will come over to th plants I have put into th ground, and bite th tops off, to get a drink of water, from th small plants. So, in those drier months, to avoid this reoccurring, I have place several aluminum pie pans with water, in different places in th garden. Then when these small animal want a drink, they don't attack these tiny fledgling plants, but go over to th water I have provided for them, to quench their thirst. And they left my small plants alone.

[@lewiskemp5893]

Great idea

[@peace1963]

I have to give you credit, those bugs would drive me crazy.

[@projekt6_official]

Just watching the video bothers me enough. Screw being there in person. Lol

[@lindas2606]

Am I the only person who gets itchy when Shawn posts these spring time, bug infested, videos? LOL

[@nancyfaught3833]

The bugs would drive me crazy! It reminds me of a scene in “African Queen” with Humphrey Bogart &Kathryn Hepburn.

[@libmorin9985]

is anyone else scratching watching Shawn's video!

[@hilarywhite2953]

Oh man.. bug season. O Canada. Never again. Never, ever, ever. The sight of them brings back the smell of Muskol; makes my skin crawl and my hair stand on end. I've survived cancer and catastrophic earthquakes in Italy, and none of it was so awful as Bug Season in the NWT.

[@HummingbirdJa]

I am imagining a couple of years from now, you will be surrounded by healthy fruit trees and hedges...all bearing fruits and berries, producing organic fruits in abundance. You've worked tirelessly Shawn, you deserve to reap your hard labour in abundance, when the time comes. UK.

[@gloriaeren8717]

I pray that we’re around long enough to see the fruits of your labor you work hard and you do a good job thank you for your contact

[@Godwinpounds4333]

Hello how are you doing?

[@Cloax]

@@Godwinpounds4333 shush

[@kulina571]

Hey Shawn, try planting Lavender as it is an excellent way to repel flies. Its smell wards away flies because they can not stand the scent of lavender. Using lavender-based soaps, oils, and scents will help repel flies and deter them from returning. You can place these in areas where flies frequent to repel them. Greetings from Bosnia!

[@sallyfrenette9643]

I hope you keep filming long enough so we can see all of those trees and bushes grown.

[@glendajune9140]

Those black flies were so abundant, that I started itching just looking at you. I guess they’re a trade off. If you choose to live a life in a beautiful place , black flies are a minor consequence.Keep living your best life.💯❤️👍🏾😀🙋🏽‍♀️✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸

[@marymcmanus]

I wear a baseball cap and that keeps the net away from my face.

[@retiredyeti5555]

Cottontails abound in my area, despite coyotes and foxes which keep the population under control - and this is in the city of Milwaukee, WI. The rabbits do not dig nests in my fenced in back yard, because my dog roams freely there, but they have dug many nests in my front yard over the past 11 years! I always walk the yard before mowing, to ensure that I do not run over a nest and kill the young ones.

[@henrietta9206]

in highrises like Singapore, I have limited choice but to have a bun over the more pricey-upkeep pets like dogs or cat... Bunny was 12...just passed on last week...it's amazing how tiny little things (albeit different ones) bring such comfort ...sorry to read the buns are hurtful where yer at!!

[@henrietta9206]

ps - also very comforted to read u made sure to run no nesr over before mowing. Kudos to you, youre a Hero!

[@YankeeWoodcraft]

"Baby Rabbits in the Garden" Nice! Wild edibles!

[@heidipustelniak652]

Bugs are making me itchy just watching!

[@athollmcnicoll1028]

And now that levirate (Baby Bunny) will be thinking "Mmm I now know where new greenery will be shooting up, so I'll hang about, stay in cover and come darkness nip in and have a feed." Cali I hear your favourite Woody Wood Pecker is back to his old antics, drumming on the trees.

[@joannak4640]

I really enjoy hearing you tell us how and why you are doing certain things in the garden. Thank you

[@wedemgoyz7678]

high IQ content

[@joannak4640]

@@wedemgoyz7678 💯 agree

[@wedemgoyz7678]

@@joannak4640 in my head im trying to get 50% done of what Shawn has done, plus the mistakes i would probably do with logs holy shit....you really have to read couple books before even thinking that you could rely on yourself, it takes so much focus/planning/details/dedication, especially for perfectionist Shawn when he is an idol to many and must keep the highest standards. My favorite channel to watch from comfy couch, could say I'm watching a movie😁

[@joannak4640]

@@wedemgoyz7678 I agree 😁 I often find myself going back and even watching his old videos on the other homestead ❤️ Especially when he started putting in the inside of the cabin...cabinets, flooring...he is a man of much knowledge and wisdom

[@philomenalear3488]

I am watching from Australia Shawn. I have been watching your videos for a couple of years or more. Your lifestyle is one I dreamed of for myself since childhood. Its wonderful seeing how you do what you do and how well you do it. I also love watching people living in a natural environment with climatic conditions very different to ours. Climate change has been strongly felt here, particularly over the past two years. Summer, instead of being super hot and dry,(much like living in a fan forced oven if there’s a wind,) is now wet,wet,wet and not overly hot. Winter is also milder. I am in Australia’s Capitol City, Canberra. My garden has become tropical.

[@bvafadari7726]

درمورد جمله اول...کاملا با شما موافقم...منهم چند سالی است که شان و کارهاشو از «تهران» «ایران» دنبال می کنم...ایده آل من از کودکی...موفق باشید!

[@murphyseb]

Shawn, I normally combine the bug net with a cap or a hat so it give space from the bugs and also you see better. That's my small tip today!

[@johnmichaelkarma]

I like my full brim hat w netting all around for visibility and cooling.

[@jerryg2073]

Suggest a mesh-style hat for ventilation.

[@ClissaT]

If you've been watching world news you might know we here on the Eastern Aussie coast have had one of the wettest seasons ever. I'm in SE Queensland and as of 3days ago, have now had 3x annual rainfall with another deluge coming over next 2days. So plenty of spare rain here. How much rain do you need and where do I send it? 😂 Am also happy to throw in free spare mozzie clouds if you want to feel at home 2wks early!! 🤣🤣 Because this area is subtropical verging on arid usually, I purchased southern blueberries 5yrs ago which I have to grow in pots to provide acid growing medium, to move around to get sun and heat all year, as well as watering daily. However this year being so wet and humid, they think they have gone to heaven and now require repotting a year early. And looks like they are bursting into flower months early due to seasonal changes this year. Interesting to hear about your local varieties. I have one which is a Southern High which is heading for 3m (10ft) tall in its 20lt pot. Now moving them all to 35lt pots which will hopefully be the last size increase. 😵 Had a great crop last season which only ended a few weeks ago really. We are going into our winter but this extra humid tropical air, warmer than usual days and system of lows has thrown a spanner in the works for all of nature on this side of Australia.

[@SteifWood]

My most vivid memory of my great granddad was him scouring the meadowy fields under some giant pine trees harvesting cran- and blueberries. The whole family had travelled for hours to come to his sacred place where we were to "pella bær" (pick berries). Tyttebær, as we call our cranberry variety, is an addon to every game meat and blueberry we use for for juice/jam. And we needed tons of it to last the whole winter. Now I have both berries behind my barn :)

[@my_freelance_life]

Might be a good idea to build some Bat Boxes for around the property to bring down the insect pressure.

[@singers1990]

I wish I was ten years younger to see the finished product, Shawn.

[@graceveenema4762]

This song comes to mind. 🎶And the black flies, the little black flies, always the black fly no matter where you go. I’ll die with the black fly a’pickin my bones in north Ontario.🎶 I’d be running out of the woods stark raving mad! Awk! I cleared land for a house built in the Gatineau Hills in May in the 70s and I’m afraid it left me scarred for life! Wouldn’t your bug jacket work better over your brimmed hat?

[@MarySmith-gu5nb]

In Massachusetts, I found a nest of baby rabbits when I was mowing the lawn. I called animal control, who came to my house and put up "Do Not Disturb" barriers and flags around the east and who told me I had to protect the wildlife!

[@jennyk544]

Oh my goodness! I felt itchy just watching this video. That is a lot of bugs flying around! Good luck.

[@tessabristow1383]

In South Africa we have a large shrub called a Kei Apple which was used traditionally by nomadic peoples to keep lions out of the goats pens at night. It is literally covered in 15cm long thorns.

[@Gugugaagaa213]

My lil family and I love watching all your videos because not only are they informational but they are therapeutic as well!! You remind me of my dad back home. Every day he's always willing to build something and lend a hand to friends and family members. I remember one summer day he called us all out of the house and told us that there are many things to do rather than sit around on our phones all day. So he showed us how to build our own bed-frames for our bed, some benches outside for guests to sit on and etc. We love your passion for making the impossible possible!!

[@janetwithers7427]

I can't wait to see all the shrubs and fruit trees and bushes producing some fruit or berries. The baby bunny looked cute. Nice of you to give him a chance. I always enjoy your videos. 💖

[@chetthejet3896]

Not only can we see them, but they also can be heard.

[@straubdavid9]

We do have Snowshoe hares in northern counties here in Pennsylvania, but I've not seen them. I've seen tons of them in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Never hunted them in Michigan, but saw many of them from my treestand while hunting deer, and walking my dogs in the winter through frozen swamps, and other bottomlands and cedar stands. Your gardening is very interesting, and a big departure from most people's gardens, and probably your own gardens in the past. I hope you have much success in your efforts to grow a garden from nothing. Of course you have the greenhouse, which has it's own issues at times. I personally have had my "green thumb" status revoked. I have a hard time growing dandelions this year, let alone the stuff I'm trying to get to sprout🤣 I can do the same thing one year with great success, and have it totally fail the following year. You get these delusions that you have a handle on one particular part in the process, and all of a sudden it no longer works, or you get new pests or diseases that you never had before in the garden. I've never been sooo prepared as I am this year, but my seeds are waaaay late in germinating! Best of luck Shawn ... happy growing!

[@marieleopold1625]

Go easy Shawn...LOTS on your plate! Health and God Bless! Thanks 4 sharing.

[@reneebrown2968]

Wow those black flies sound like my bee hives when I make them mad

[@chiefenumclaw7960]

At the beginning of the video, I could hardly believe it was still snowing up north... until I realized it wasn't snow, it was bugs.

[@joebacarella2829]

Well, 5 to 10 years down the road, this should be a very productive, and self sustaining environment, fruits,nuts,berries and veggies, well thought out, and well planned. I like the living fence idea, it`s just a smart way to keep the wildlife at bay, take care.

[@OdeeOz]

Wow Shaw, the sheer number of Black Flies & Skeeters look thicker than snowfall. Need to import more Dragonflies and Frogs :O 👍👍

[@Thrash230723]

“Up in the wildlife corridor” love that!

[@shur7318]

Wow that’s a lot of bugs flying around

[@Rags2Itches]

Long ago I rented a old farmhouse on Pickering Beach Rd in Ajax, Ont. very close to Lake Ontario. Nothing but open farm fields backing onto a creek back then. In the winter, the field would be loaded with snowshoe rabbits. I always enjoyed seeing them. We also had a rather large population of skunks usually emerging in late February. There was a resident pack of coyotes that made their territorial round on the east side of the creek about every five days. For some one that had never heard coyotes sing or even seen a coyote, it was a wonderful event.

[@laruedouglas1064]

You are busy with all the plants and it will be nice when everything grows up.

[@saner6888]

You had me at “baby rabbits”❣️

[@dominic.h.3363]

Just don't forget that if he decides to ever have them, they're gonna be food.

[@jeanadamsick9854]

HOPING THE BABY RABBIT, MAKES IT OUT THERE. Do take care. Fl., U.S.A.

[@zachtbh]

Planting endangered tree species native to the area would be cool too.. Keep it up Shawn!

[@PaulJFleischer]

One thing that crossed my mind is that those little buggers flying all over everything are feeding all the other insects and springtime bounty.

[@sgrvtl7183]

The birds singing/sounds are beautiful!

[@nightsong28540]

Yep, lot's of 🪰 (insects/flys) flying around...baby rabbits are so cute...stay safe, be careful, take it easy and keep dry and cool.

[@mariecreighton5222]

Ohh bugs my my Shawn “ very excited you have ur Trees fantastic. Black flys are out in Main to black flys “ blue berries out thing is snakes nature’s way blessings

[@michaelmilbrandt1051]

I suggest you screen the blueberry plants from any bunnies , they eat them to the ground ! This was my experience of planting rooted mail order blueberry plants . About 6" plants that only lived about 2-3 weeks in Mn. then the hares finished them off ☹

[@giselecontassotdesayvre3965]

''💚 La force et la Tendresse dans des gants de velours!..'' 😁 Gis....très très belle vidéo..j'ai adoré..vous expliquez avec tant de passion , que ce soit pour l'élaboration de votre jardin, les plantations..leurs vertus. Pourquoi vous les placez à tel endroit..etc..vous êtes entrain de créer un paradis, votre paradis..pour vous. Votre famille, votre chienne..vos voisins, les animaux...vous êtes un très très grand Monsieur..'' chapeau bas'' Shawn🍀

[@barbarasnookolderandwiser]

Paw Paw trees like living near water down here in Southern Missouri. Hope yours survive. Would love to see you have the fruit.

[@reneebrown2968]

I love the mosquito net jacket. Wish I had one myself

[@cdennisb]

Just fascinating listening to you talk about your garden, the plants and plans. Feel like I should be taking notes, just to keep up!

[@rebeccamercer4160]

Hope you don’t get to hot with your face being covered! I see the bugs flying around near the camera . Always enjoy the videos ! I am trying to make a fence with skinny trees that have fallen or cutting down thin trees that are dead. Trying at least! Thanks again and be safe and God bless you and your precious family!

[@garyhand6480]

At 87 I won't be around long enough to see you eat the fruits of your labor. Enjoy!!

[@docholliday5439]

Those Black Flys would drive me absolutely CRAZY!!! 🤠 PHX AZ 🇺🇸

[@downeastprimitiveskills7688]

I'm using an excavator to move wild low bush blueberry rhizome into productive fields to fill in bald areas, mostly as a test for now and will pick up this activity later in the fall as the plants go dormant. As you clear the land a controlled early spring burn will enhance the wild blueberries. burn every other years and split the lot in half so you have a good crop each year. Maine produces 100 million pounds this way every year. New Brunswick as well has a large wild blueberry crop not to leave out Quebec.

[@TaigaTurf]

Lowbush blueberry grow great in Washington county

[@trisho.8331]

Surprised you’re planting paw paw trees up there-papaya in USA-so far up north. Thought they were a sub/tropical fruit. Good luck Shawn. Maybe they’ll do well in the greenhouse. 🤞

[@robertspies4695]

Sean, Your Australian salute is developing well as bug season progresses.

[@timkeagy4094]

Good morning Shawn. I like your ideas for the garden. Good ideas for you and wildlife. I hope you get some kind of rain in the near future. We here in the SW, no rain and drought. I have been working on a desertscape in my front yard which I am not a fan of, but with water restrictions I have too. Planting cactus, succulents and native plants. Thanks for updating us when you have the time. Take care.

[@pjr7754]

You might want to put a drop of olive oil on your pools of stagnant water and see if that helps to keep the mosquitoes down. The oil blocks the breathing tubes of the larva and kills them quickly. It doesn't take much.

[@hilarywhite2953]

Mosquitoes are later. These are blackfly. Nothing at all to do about them.

[@jean-sebastienturgeon5861]

Killing off the mosquitoes might provide some relief but it will also alter the ecosystem needlessly. They are food for many other species.

[@Goruthar]

Dragonflies do not agree!

[@joeklasen2845]

How much oil do you think he would need?

[@dfuss2756]

I used to add 1 teaspoon of corn oil to a horse water tank for my horses. It doesn't take much. And the oil was good for their coats.

[@ericperron1]

Having lived in the North Bay region in my childhood and now living up in the Cochrane district I am both living vicariously through your videos and also noting how different our climates can be within a days drive from eachother. Happy crops to you and all, hoping for a beautiful season!

[@nancycolbert2703]

Also a former North Bay resident.

[@frederickmoller]

All my 66 years in Timmins, and still love it.

[@TaigaTurf]

Most people don't realize how cold the district of Cochrane actually is..being highway 11 is south of the 50th parallel. It's equally " northern" as much of interior Alaska

[@matdowdall]

missing shad fly season eh lol

[@ericperron1]

@@matdowdall I was wondering when I'd get my daily dose of ptsd lmao! Not being able to find a bench or table to sit at during shad season is inconvenient to say the least!

[@sugarandpennythepooh1211]

I really like these videos. I bet those bugs are maddening! ❤️😊🙏

[@patriciabeyer7824]

Good morning. The flies and bugs are horrible! I hope you have good success with the gardens. The little bunny may be grateful for the relocation from you. ❤️🐰 Be blessed.

[@marygordon3032]

Thanks Shawn you’re the best, blessings! 👏👏👏✅✅✅👍👍👍🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯🙌🙌🙌

[@lisathayne7333]

Ugh! I feel so sorry for you with all those bugs!

[@booswalia]

The adult rabbit was probably watching you handle her kit. Adult rabbits don't stay with the nest. They just return to feed the kits twice a day.

[@kathyhensarling2537]

Call you Professor Shawn, amazing, the amount of knowledge you have.

[@robertsimard735]

Very interesting video on the garden. Bugs and gardening go hand in hand. Not to bad here yet. Have a great week and thanks for bringing us along Shawn.

[@LifeIsMessyImLearningAsIGrow]

🌳 I can see you put a lot of work and love into growing!I hope gardening brings you as much joy as it brings me. b It’s the start of my 3 year gardening but there is still so much for me to learn and I appreciate you sharing your food forest. It’s inspirational to me. I’d love the idea of a growing that way. I look forward to hopefully learning more from each other as we grow!

[@suzeca-22]

Bring him in the house and make him a friend!

[@Godwinpounds4333]

Hello dear, how are you doing?

[@donaldtrabeaux5235]

The bugs remind me of the swamps in South Louisiana, where is Cali hope everything is ok. Well, we see you on the next one, take care stay safe and God bless.

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Shawn .

[@patti3447]

Sorry Mr James you may have been asked this many times but will you have bee hives? I am a big fan since you first started your exceptional unique cabin building videos loved everyone. A great learning experience ,as you inspired me at 73 to buy a shed from the Mennonite s 10x20 and made it my little cabin and placed it on my lot on manitoulin island.. I had help refinishing the inside .. it is almost all off grid with solar panels and rainwater .. my heat source is a propane cast iron fireplace .. I also have a wood burning cooking pit. Hopefully my garden is planted next week and free from frost. I also enjoy Emily’s channel she is me about 55 years ago. Thank you love both channels

[@mycampingobsession]

Baby bunnies❤️❤️❤️

[@Goruthar]

It's great to see the evolution of your knowledge of the capacities and limitations of your environment, the arm chair engineered but competent development of your skills, plan and execution of both the cabin and it's surroundings. And it's really great to see the evolution of your skills as a KZbin host, your Shawn James channel is becoming as much a 'must watch' as the other one.

[@waynek921]

Your a turn woodsman. Keep up the great work on yours dream.

[@elizabethpodesta9554]

Ooh. Baby rabbits cool 😀

[@tommychew6544]

Really apricate you sharing you're well thought out plan with us. Attention to detail is what makes everything work out the best and it's why I really enjoy watching your channels! Complimenting plants is something I read and learned and many years ago that should have more attention than it has. Thanks for the great video!

[@timcalhoon7469]

Yes Shawn we appreciate all that you put out for us to enjoy!

[@sylviacortes3251]

Que desagradable esa parte vivir en un lugar tan bello ,pero también hay que saber lidiar con esos inconvenientes,suerte señor 🥰

[@masfachryhamim2994]

Try plant some Mango tree or Jack fruit Mr Shawn... That's plant is match for every season... 👍👍👍

[@stevearchtoe7039]

I put wire around the sides and top of my small trees for the first few years. Keeps the deer away. Nice job mr James.

[@sandranokes7443]

Just watching the beginning and I can see hundreds of things flying in front of the camera. I hope you have screens on all your windows that will open.

[@HotrodRon74]

great video Shawn,,,oh well,,if you get 60 percent out of the garden,,your doing great,,,you may get more...mines going in now,,,not big,,but big enough....great weather....rain haaa...be careful

[@kiddobee3610]

Wow That IS a lot of blackflies ! Dry springs seem to be the trend these days, not much to be done but water & mulch I guess. Had to pull my Sea Buckthorn as it got out of control. Hope you have better luck with it

[@jeonggogue3914]

To deter the bugs, spray with cinnamon soaked water before you head out. It might help you a bit

[@paulsillence3]

I think I'd build a water tower for the garden and the cabin. With the height comes pressure which would make watering the garden so much easier. Maybe a project in a couple of years Shawn?

[@alexpage7292]

Shawn, those bugs would drive me nuts 🤦🏻‍♂️😂 Great vid though

[@usafairmanlord]

I absolutely love the pawpaw fruit, stumbled upon some in the wild of Southern Virginia years ago...absolutely delicious.

[@jannibal9273]

When I go up north (Wisconsin) in the summer I have to sit outside inside a screen tent to avoid all the deer flies and other insects from seeking me out. I am one of those people with pheremones that are particularly attractive to flying insects, UGH! So when I'm out on the land on one of the trails walking about or on the back of an ATV I'm dressed in a full suit of netting! It looks ridiculous, but it does the trick to keep the bugs OFF!

[@opendoorslowly]

living with nature, sometimes requires mesh covers. love it

[@k-a-p-a-l-o-s-u-k-u]

Video yang bagus semoga hari mu menyenangkan salam kenal dari Indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🙏👉🔔🔔🔔

[@Wordsnwood]

Listen to the buzz... "And the black flies, the little black flies // Always the black fly, no matter where you go // I'll die with the black fly a-picking my bones...."

[@mamareed810]

Yes, we can see the flies. You might try this to help rid the flies, I saw it on a video about an Island Destination for Vacationers. The people who cared for the customers & the cabanas set out pots of water & Yeast to attract the flies & keep them off the people vacationing. The Yeast would mimic a person breathing when exhaling & draw the bugs to that pot. The pots were hidden in the lush greenery along side the walkways. You could set up several pots around the perimeter of work space to try it out. I hope this helps you with your pesky visitors!

[@dma9646]

Baby rabbits are cute, but .... they grow up chewing down newly sprouted veggies. Once they find the way into a fenced garden, you're fresh veggies plants are done growing. I have a chain-link fenced in garden, rabbit found his way in and finished off four 20 foot rows of newly sprouted green beans. Upgraded the fence with smaller openings, it worked for more grown-up rabbits, but if a young rabbit finds it's way in (went through the smaller openings) it'll keep on chewing and gets too big to escape. Replanted green beans 3 times and cukes twice. If there's a rabbit hopping around, let Calli chase them off. My mini Doxies can't catch em, but those bunnies don't stick around!! Yippee

[@charmed2u2]

Wow..those bugs are crazy annoying. Glad you have protection from them.

[@halinawiecek2297]

When everything grow you're going to have beautiful garden I can't wait to see that, so pleasure to watching you planting your garden and watching every show take care.

[@jonduthiel7399]

I hope Cali is going to help you with all that planting lol.

[@BanditGirl61]

we live in the country and i use castor oil and no pest, it smothers them and its good for skin.... and smoke from fire of course

[@bobobrien8968]

Another interesting video. Gotta love those black flies.

[@robertlemoine3500]

Thankyou Shawn.great program.