HOW TO PROTECT YOUR GARDEN FROM PESTS - Dealing with the Wildlife

If you've ever faced the challenge of safeguarding your hard-earned produce from the adorable but relentless Aussie wildlife, you're in for a treat. In this video, I'll share my top tips and clever strategies for keeping those pesky bush turkeys, bandicoots, bats, caterpillars, and birds at bay while nurturing a thriving garden. Don't let your efforts go to waste - join me on this journey to protect your bounty!
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Weedy :-)
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[@douglastobin8996]

Yr photography ammmazing

[@damienwalton383]

thanks again man

[@acts.412]

Thank you ! Really enjoyed this Weedy 🙏🌱☀️

[@sunnyrivers]

Weedy has the most SOOTHING voice I’ve ever heard‼️🌿🙂

[@laurieedeburn2449]

thanks

[@gregeveleigh1999]

Fast becoming my go to for gardening and growing content

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Awesum 👍😝

[@ChristopherWKwan]

I didn’t have much time, but I stopped to watch this video. Good Vibes mate!🌴

[@kellymcbrearty6691]

i thought the cat was the answer BUT it was the chicken wire. :) :) :) I had to cover my eyes when the snake was in the video... 😀

[@sarahpalm7661]

So glad I've never seen a snake that big in my garden. We have giant grasshoppers here called lubbers that are trouble enough. Truly an inspiration on quality in videography that I aspire to. Too bad I'm shit at it. 😂

[@ijboyance16]

Encouraging dragonflies is also a good way to deal with mosquitoes.

[@paulawaldrep5286]

Truly enjoyed this video. I have armadillos here in Texas USA. Chicken wire to the rescue!!!😂

[@InuqiSevonne]

this is a spooky themed video which is pretty cool. lol

[@Alexander361cmongimmieahandle]

Faraway Rd cracked me up so much!

[@GrandmomZoo]

Barefoot accidental electric fence zap is always a great time Weedy. 😂

[@Compulsive_Propagator_Lou]

Weedy, have watched Down the Carrot Hole.. it’s beautiful, just beautiful. Filled my heart and my soul. And had my autistic teenager transfixed from beginning to end. Recommended people - go watch and listen and take away so many lessons on life and love and connection with Earth.

[@jrdub24]

I loved this one your funny .i can’t get enough Australia so beautiful I wanna come. I’m so sick of the concrete .I’m going to get me some land one day and make my own garden.so silly why don’t we all do this .

[@samgraham6628]

You're light shines so bright it makes my heart weep sometimes☺️. You seem like an amazing human and I thank you for sharing this part of you with all of us🥰

[@TheWeedyGarden]

You are so welcome

[@douglastobin8996]

Lovu brother th boy

[@rubygray7749]

Kyogle!! I've been there!

[@chelsykawa243]

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge with us.truly appreciate you 🙏 ❤

[@fionasmall4384]

Love my wee visit to Australia 🇦🇺

[@milkymeats]

What did you enjoy most about Oz? I'm in Qld :)

[@janehodgett959]

Yes I’m in Sydney! And I am a member of a community garden we have everything! Haha! 🤣

[@wesmcgull6438]

Allriight, I’m definitely going to try the "rolling bottle rodent trap" ! Thank you for the tips, and stay... weedy!!

[@dragoniousmaximus7304]

Ya Mon!!!!!!

[@jchandler3336]

I appreciate your dedication to creating original and valuable content and delivering it in such a smooth and entertaining manner. Thank you.

[@emsey6097]

REVENGE ON THE TURKEY - I love it... That made me laugh out loud....YOUR AWESOME

[@joekara]

The POV of the butterfly was an incredible addition 😅. Good on u WEEDY.🦋

[@jackbehrns2657]

Your videos always make me happy. Thanks for sharing with us Weedy.

[@agtbruinsman7190]

Love your videos Weedy. Greetings from Ladybird Gardens in Zealand New Brunswick Canada

[@crochetingaroundnewzealand]

I love your perseverance 😊

[@myofasciatherapy8191]

I recommend some of my clients watching you. Depression/Anxiety/Stress. Because it softly is guiding our hearts to progress into a shamanic Being - just by watching your work with the garden - AND you. Thank you Mr Weedy! Better than Yoga!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Bless 🙏🏻🤗

[@seariousjones]

always a feast for my eyes,brain and soul! Much appreciation and respect to and for you! :)

[@TheMarkvq]

Awesome video weedy.

[@alexanderoborne5872]

Peace 🌻🥃 be with you to bloke and you have a wonderful life too 🌅🪕🏴‍☠️🤙🌊🌌🌄☯️🙏🌎🐾👣🍺🍻

[@buzzwerd8093]

The thinnest bird wire still conducts electricity. High tension is low current zaps, thinner wire won't burn. See what you can do with cheap fabric like burlap and jute when soaked through with cement/mortar and let harden. Layers and wire added make stronger and set your holes, hooks and loops in before it cures. Fiber and cement give tensility and hardness to the composite. It's hard and it bends and back.

[@daleireland]

Awesome 😎 thanks Weedy

[@bizzybee852]

Great tips for keeping out pests. I live in the Southern United States, in the state of Georgia, and we don't have wallyby's, bandicoots, bush turkeys, or carpet pythons. But we do have deer, they will eat almost anything, including the landscape plants and flowers growing in your front yard garden. And we have huge populations of deer, especially in the South where I live. The biggest problem in deterring the deer is that even if you build a fence 2 to 2.5 meters high all around your garden they can jump over it. But a fence that high does deter most deer, all but the very determined ones when you have one of their favorite foods growing. But the problem becomes the expense of having to erect a fence around your entire garden. You can also use coyote or wolf urine (they sell it here in bottles) and that will keep them away, because the coyote and wolf are natural predators of the deer. But you have to occasionally reapply it, especially after it rains. I guess gardeners all around the world deal with pests of one kind or another. But then again, we only classify them as pests because they are pestering us. In reality they are simple animals, insects, birds, etc., and I for one would not like it if the forest around my home no longer contained those "pests".

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Electric fence. single wite. aluminium paper strips coated in peanut butter once. I heard that works.

[@jessicaheger1880]

"it's turned on actually - shit!" ⚡✨😂

[@TheWeedyGarden]

🥵

[@cazinaus4917]

Thanks Sir Weedy....another enjoyable, feel good video. Btw I'm still eating my bananas from the tip end, holding the stalk 🐒

[@BetterYTAlgo4J]

Just saw the hemp timelapse setup in the background. 😅

[@SANjeewascience]

what a dedication ❤

[@anthroposium]

Thank you for taking us on this journey with you!

[@zyriak]

Just love your videos. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to join you on the journey.

[@Compulsive_Propagator_Lou]

Thank you weedy! Love your storytelling. Here’s to using your learning in my own garden .. Tassie here I come ❤

[@veronica6514]

I am having problems with raccoons digging everywhere .I actually thought about laying the fence down on the dirt. The veggies can still grow but raccoons cannot dig . An a little secret to the trap . You have to cover the back part of the trap with a towel or something . Just where the food is , there little hands reach in an get the food without going in trap . That's the problem I had with the raccoons . If you cover it an they want the food then they have to go in . Just make sure the towel is not near the handle or the door will not close properly an they escape .

[@juniorgc8]

Thanks for the tips and tricks Weedy Garden you always know how to educate and entertain at the same time awesome video

[@narelle4868]

I'm not keen on netting but if I want any mulberries I'm going to have to get one. When I was a kid i remember my Dad putting a net over the fig tree and it always looked ghostly at night. Lots of handy hints, thankyou.

[@stayawakenhealthy2539]

Great vid mate. I live not far from you in the beautiful Norther Rivers. 💕 Best thing for me to to stop bandicoots digging and uprooting freshy planted trees to get to the worms below = Lay a 1mtr x 1 mtr shade cloth and peg it into the ground and they CAN'T scratch through. 👌 Happy gardening.

[@TEPO--]

Wonderful and aside from being delightful and oh so relatable, your adventures, persistence and successes were quite encouraging too. As I imagine all gardeners have their challenging visitors, since the beginning of time. In my neck of the woods Bears, Coyotes, Racoons, Bunnies, tenacious squirrels, tiny mice have tested me over the years and have thought me much along the way........ At times I've felt as though I was perhaps loosing my mind, quite obsessed in the process of trying to "figure it out" and find the proper solutions, by really wrapping my head around the challenges. Ha, attempting to merge with the edible desires of these critters and their individual ways, in time success is to be celebrated.... Living so close, connected and yes in sync with the land along with our furry and feathered neighbors that we cohabit with is such a precious way, a gift of countless blessings of discovery, and joyful delights....... Wonderful, life with the love of a garden, such a sweet way.....

[@bernadette6211]

Well done, you certainly have had a lot to deal with. I find here in Ireland by having 10 blackcurrant bushes there is enough for both birds and humans to enjoy, same with the apple trees.

[@philinit6476]

Now that is the video ive been needing so badly. Just got possums to add to the list here.

[@rebeccasnell2953]

Yes same here in Adelaide. They love my fruit trees. Have you solved it yet?

[@hfestion.]

Nice video

[@shellsea9520]

HAY MATES gr8 video ❤ I Thought 0 but did not enter as I am not close anymore ?,Don't know if that mattered I Love the big KYOGLE Bush Turkey 🥰💥😎🧡💞

[@lpmoron6258]

Good morning. You were my first chuckle of the day. That reaction to the electric fence. That's how I test our solar powered electric fence. My husband can't believe I can and will actually willingly test it. Anyhow I got a kick it of that. Good memories. It works too keep the cows where they belong. Have a wonderful day Weedy.

[@markbowman2890]

Great video - entertaining and informative. My garden adventure has mirrored Weedies in relation to pests over the last 3 years. I came to the same solution with bandicoots and bush turkeys. The mesh I used for the fence barrier was only 150mm high (left over from my chicken coop build), and it kept them out. I use wire on the exposed beds where I can, but I had to modify my compost bin storage to keep out the bush turkey. I found that the bush turkey did not like the hose or an angry dog, so I mimicked an angry dog whenever I saw it. Eventually it gave up coming and found another location, at least for a while.

[@FruitPhilosopher]

I really appreciate this content, its really more like field research. The one thing i notice from my Antipodean gardening compares is that NZ and AUS fauna are a real issue for permaculture based self-sustsinabiliyy realisation. Permaculture is meant to be low input, but it seems like on that side of the world the imbalance of prey vs predetors and vigor of native plants means that you really have to scale up to a huge land footprint and implement many mechanical, synthetic and manual solutions to get by. I wonder if extreme exclusion is the solution such as large rodent, lizard, bat and birdproof geodesic domes with thick sandstone bases.... Maybe this is why there was very little aboriginal agriculture practiced (with the exception of grain)....

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Maybe

[@glennwilck5459]

I learned fences and netting do alot to keep things out!

[@broniaholmes7308]

Love this episode. Very informative. Love the philosophy of life and sharing and protecting you weave into your way of being. Yes, I was one of the winners!!!

[@pierrerestoux7360]

Very informative thank you, I've have had garden beds and chooks for 3 years now too (I think everyone during covid started growing veggies) and I can relate to all of the aboves and it's been a slow learning curve to stop them. I have the same chicken wire around all my beds now and I'm glad that it also works against a 2 years old toddler...

[@SayWhatYouMean]

Your videos take me away from the noise in my life and give me such a sense of relaxation. Thank you so much! Your videos are filed with knowledge and it's therapeutic at the same time, wish I could be there! This year I'm starting my own garden as well ☺

[@SouthFloridaSunshine]

I feel the same way. His videos make me feel like when I was a kid and I could watch Winnie the Pooh.

[@sharonhoffer3599]

Thanks for the great info on keeping a myriad of pests at bay. I also have that philosophy of ‘if you’re in my space, you’re fair game’. I have a hoop house where I grow most of my food, which is animal secure. I then have swamp wallabies, bandicoots and wild deer to contend with if I plant anything out in the open on my 3 acres. So everything gets fenced until it’s big enough to survive on its own. I’m in the process of starting a new food forest patch, I’m going to use a method that Geoff Lawton described of electric fence with aluminium foil hanging in spots, smear peanut butter on the foil to get the deer to lick it, whammo zap! They’ll get shocked and hopefully stay away. Then it will be wire fencing for wallabies, bandicoots, etc then hopefully I’ll be able to grow something 🤣🙏🏽🌱 The struggle is real in the bush, but so worth it 😂😂😂

[@Travel_Videos]

It’s amazing how much your garden has changed. From putting in those swales to now.

[@KateKoger]

This is going to be a great watch as we are planning to move back home and want to have a food Forrest like yours with chickens etc ❤

[@milliebrown875]

Love your videos so much! I get very excited when I see a new one posted 😊 also love your ‘enjoy your life, it’s important’ sign off. It sticks in my head for the rest of the week, because it really is important 💚

[@DebRoo11]

If I had a Python in my garden it would be game over. I'd sign the deed to the plot over and call it a day 😅

[@claudioplaza1324]

I love your videos, your energy and passion about gardening and the respect you have for life. Thanks!!!

[@Geografija5do12]

High quality video. Thank you! Man, your pests are huge! I have been under invasion of an alliance between slugs and mole cricket for almost 3 years and was ready to quit gardening. These terminators are smaller but in great numbers ( imagine a mole cricket the size of a cow, Mother of Christ🤣). The main strategy is this: to control mole crickets I need a mice; for mice control I need a cat; to control a cat I need a dog; to control a dog I need a wolf and so on...Since this is impractical I will introduce some benefical nematodes... After all,our gardens are trully an ecosystems in small. 🖖

[@rebeccasnell2953]

Sounds like the old lady who swallowed a fly

[@heidishedlock-acreativelife]

Some great tips! I live on the east coast of South Africa in Durban. A pretty similar climate to yours. We have the vervet monkeys to contend with. They sleep in the trees in the parkland next to my house and garden and so they troop through the garden on their daily adventures first thing in the morning and then in the evenings as they head on back to the trees. Occasionally we get a rouge male during the day. Trying to keep the monkeys out of my house is problematic enough let alone my garden which is a constant struggle. They open cupboards, jars etc and so in the garden they easily break through coverings and are as nimble as humans in getting into anything. It's a constant struggle! Wish I could find a weedy gardener solution for the monkeys😝

[@pierrerestoux7360]

Wow that is the next level of pests! A dog wouldnt scare them?

[@pagevpetty]

Thanks for sharing your experiences! Yes, I have much of the same problems just with different animals. I'm assuming it's racoons that dug up much of my garden beds searching for worms. Just tossing all the plants a side... I've seen them clean off a whole apple tree in one night, but I didn't scare them away because they were sooo cute! and mice eating the young sprouts before they even have a chance :( but it seems like this bird netting I put over the raised beds is a deterant. Unfortunately, it's a deterrent for me too... it's so annoying how it gets stuck and tangled on everything. I think the motion sensor lights might be helping as well. I also like the little birds because they sing so lovely and eat aphids, but they also eat some leaves too :/ But it is fun to watch the humming birds catch gnats. Oh! and I also built a pergola surrounded by chicken wire that keeps the rabbits, squirrels, raccoons and such out, but I wish I had used a tighter mesh because the mice can still get in. A project for another day.

[@kolapyellow7631]

Their GPS tell the pests to go to weedy garden for yummy food. 😊😊😊😊😊

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yes they do now 🥲😅🥹

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[@monkeymommy778]

New subscriber recommended by David the Good. This video was great as it was filled with so many ideas on how to combat all sorts of garden pests. Looking forward to watching more of your creative and helpful videos. Wishing y'all a blessed day.

[@heartheath]

Welcome to our Weedy Garden Wonderland 💞 Cheers Heather (Mrs Weedy)

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Nice!! Did he mention my channel in a video?

[@monkeymommy778]

​@@TheWeedyGardenYes. He mentioned your channel in his last livestream video about 5 minutes in saying that you had great cinematography and that your videos are entertaining! I agree with his observations and look forward to seeing more of your videos.😊

[@ninetyninerising9482]

Groundhog is a common pest where I am, little fellas eat anything

[@TheWeedyGarden]

😳

[@rebeccasnell2953]

How do you keep them out?

[@pietsnot7002]

Did you change the thumbnail? I saw it first with Sally the snake on there yesterday 🙃

[@jameslin1478]

I have my fair share of pest in my garden, the only pest allowed back out of my garden are if they're native.

[@risanaomi4958]

Dear weedy - where do you get those 3/4 pants from? Need something for outdoor gardening that’s sturdy enough for the elements!!

[@MerwinARTist]

Those wild eyes you have .. great actor assets .. like a pirate from the Caribbean .. enjoyed this .. but man .. I think I'd have to give up with all those garden enemies working against you!! Great video .. shared a couple spots. Great ideas tho!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@thefishfin-atic7106]

The Bandicoot should have been called Bandi-cute 😁(sorry about the damage they did, but they sure are cute) I really respect how you let all the pests go, taking the caterpillars away by hand, and chauffeuring the rodents alive in their cage to "faraway road" LOL and even tolerating the snakes....you are one with nature - the way a true gardener should be.

[@Noniinthebush]

I have such a problem with rats! How did you overcome those? I think I might have a bandicoot or 2 also. Something is nibbling my kale

[@matthewallen7875]

Hey Weedy, how did you clear and how are you maintaining no vegetation under your electric fence?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

There is an organic weed killer called Slasher from Eco that I use

[@thomjanson9644]

I’m up in the northern rivers also and I’m currently planting out my block with native trees, palms and fruit tree’s. I’m thinking it’s the bandicoots but most mornings I go out and they have dug around and under the new plants.. I repack the soil around them and give it a few days and it happens again! I’ve put up fake owls on poles near the plants they frequent the most. It deterred them for a short while, now they don’t care. Being small holes dug out under the plants, I’m thinking bandicoots. Would this be a correct assumption you think? Cheers!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yes. 😳😳

[@Micko350]

Seems like everything in Dave's Garden would be much happier if Dave wasn't in Dave's Garden! 🤣

[@TheWeedyGarden]

🤣

[@wilsongangmei]

😂

[@tammytamz3046]

What a lovely channel! Your garden is very beautiful and so is the way you tell a story!

[@MamaPegasus]

Hi David, thanks for the video! I wonder what you do against any nests. I got a few big ones and they cause problems to some trees and other plants. Cheers

[@saramccafferty4073]

I use shade cloth around my garden and its secured with planks of wood and bricks.no more bandicoot and the wallabies and kangaroos dont get in either.Also animals dont get caught in it.

[@rebeccasnell2953]

Shadecloth as fences?

[@blessildajoy]

NOVEMBER 1st 24:42

[@danssv8]

Hi mate . What is the best way to get rid of snails in my vegetable garden? Thanks

[@dragutinzupanec4301]

Greetings Sir Weedy, I have just come back to this video because my mind summoned a great question. I felt a bit iffy about the idea of growing different crops in the same bed as a strategy against pests, but now was wondering, if you had to take a bed and fill it with tomato's for example, but then instead of mixing it with other food plants, would planting a bunch of different flowers work the same trick? If so, then it may help to be able to keep things uniform (If that's what one likes.)

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Yes. A bed of tomatoes, basil and marigolds would be great

[@dragutinzupanec4301]

@@TheWeedyGarden Wonderful, thank you for confirming :) I had just now seen a video of a dude who turned desert sand into fertile farm land, and he also mentions using; Pyrethrum, Chrysanthemum (very pretty flowers) and Neem (which is known as a powerful Ayurvedic medicine).

[@gigglesmcgee2052]

My dog caught a native rat(they look basically the same but not quite) I had mixed feelings at first, I dont like her getting natives but ended up in my bokashi just the same 😂 its not great when you tip them out, they are all flattened out but they break down sooo quick!

[@TheWeedyGarden]

😳

[@emsey6097]

Hey Weedy its Emsey - QUESTION Do you know anyway to fix bark on a tree. My dog Loki ate a fruit tree trunk, and I was wondering if your weedy excellence knew of a way to fix it.... the tree is still alive.. hugs and love

[@TheWeedyGarden]

🤔😳 I don’t Emsy. If it is not all the way around it can still survive

[@emsey6097]

Thanks mate, appriciated!!! Keep up the weedy goodness!!!

[@yellbyful]

my "pest" is snails and slugs

[@jeffmarner3106]

Peanut butter

[@ethandoingstuff1433]

birds and lizards. Add rock piles for reptiles, perches for birds :)

[@Stanspliff69]

clove oil for cane toads then compost

[@kellielarsen7756]

Dave, you would make an excellent grandfather. Perhaps you could invite primary school classes to your property to learn what you have to teach.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

yeah and if each one of them pulled an armful of weeds that would be a win win.

[@Muffy.from-Oz]

HI Weedy, I love your videos, especially since all your advice is relevant to me, as I only live over the hills at Uki. Yep, I tried the Teddies too. I have been watching your videos from the very beginning of your garden and enjoy your progress. I was wondering where you got your short bird wire? I have never seen anything like that around here and it is exactly what I need for the bandicoots. Could you let me know where you bought it please.? Cheers, Muffy from Oz (Australia)

[@TheWeedyGarden]

Sure mate. Bunnings 😃

[@hardeepbains5636]

No possums? Enjoyed the video as always.

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I think the electric fence keeps them out 😁

[@Dannafilms96]

Main pests here are wombats and king parrots... Wombats are almost impossible to stop except for one way which took me many years to get dialed in

[@LLjean-qz7sb]

What is the one way?????

[@nadoubidou]

Thank you so much for this! I don't have bandicoots but I have chickens and guineafawl here in South Africa and chicken fence or netting is the only way I could keep them out while still allowing the small birds in. Any idea how to prevent or get rid of red spider mites on tomatoes (already tried neem oil), and millipedes on strawberries (I know about diatomaceous earth but one needs to reapply after each rain or watering which is not practical and costly)? These are definitely my 2 biggest pests which I haven't been managing to control.

[@chelzcherry]

How do you deal with snails and slugs

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I don’t have them.

[@PaulThomasV]

Weedy garden fella, I have a question! if sea weed is a good fertilizer, then what would be better? Chlorella or Spirulina between those three? (you have nice ladies! You caught my interest with the lacto bacillus vid! what is the best ratio between anerobic and earobic bacteria?

[@TheWeedyGarden]

I use Kelp because it is everywhere. Can’t say regarding which is best, but most sea weeds are very high in minerals and micro nutrients 🌱👍

[@PaulThomasV]

I found out that chlorella contains more micro/macronutrients than any algae. btw i use chopped-up nori and molasses and batshit and mycorrhiza. going to try a lot of your input!@@TheWeedyGarden

[@douglastobin8996]

Look out sir David knew David onth rise up rainbow eco warriors