Deterrents are something every gardener is aware of. Cd’s, cassette tape, scare tape, horns, lights, motion activated sprinklers, cans on a string, the list goes on and on! So why is it that they all stop working?
VIDEO: Why Animal Pest Deterrents Stop Working
Deterrents are something every gardener is aware of. Cd’s, cassette tape, scare tape, horns, lights, motion activated sprinklers, cans on a string, the list goes on and on! So why is it that they all stop working?
Your neighbor prolly thinks your weird.. lol
Awesome. I'm having a huge chipmunk problem this year. The population has just exploded in my yard. I'm looking for all the tips, without killing as the first option.
My dogs live in the garden. Use to have Gound hog problem. They would mow everything down. Got dogs and every year the dogs would kill 4 or 5 a year. This year dogs have eliminated the threat, not one ground hog. Squirls stay on fence. I would cry before I got dogs, it would be a lot of work to turn soil and weed and then hogs chew everything down to the ground. Now no more damage dog's rule in the garden. A fence did not work.
I have yet to see any animal with a nose get accustomed to cayenne pepper. I sprinkle it on the pathways and around plants.
Thank you for the tips. I definitely need this with the berries and stone fruits coming up.
We ended up putting up a 6 foot fence for deer, finally, no deer damage. We do get some rabbit and bird damage at times, but at least it's not mowed off by deer in one night. The fence also keeps my free range chickens out, so bonus! 🙂
Fun desensitization demonstration AAAAAAAA u scart?
I get tired of neighborhood cat male spray but theres no substitute for a bunch of successful hunter cats around to keep the vermin from setting up shop unopposed.
So if we are using the bird shotgun what you are saying is we neec to switch out for full auto 762 to random 44 mag rounds and break it up a little with whatever sort of rpg autocanon you might happen to have around.
The motion sensing sprinklers work great for me against squirrels and rabbits and birds…problem is they are so cheaply made they don't last.
Also I put a little plastic fence around the stuff the rabbits like (beets, greens carrots) and it definitely keeps them out. It's green plastic hex shaped holes and I cut it to half height so it's only about 18inches. Works fine around 4×4 raised beds zip tied to stakes in the corners and stapled at the bottom 2-3 spots per side of the bed
My great-aunt used to always say, "Plant two for you, and one for them." She was an amazing old-world gardener from Yugoslavia.
Yeah the rabbits are not scared of my sprinkler this year. Twice they have eaten my beans and peas.
Rabbit scram works pretty good for bunny's all natural and it worked good for me and I have an army of bunny's. They watch me.
I battle squirrels daily. The best trick I’ve found is to alternate sprinkling red pepper flake and coffee grounds on my garden. I have to reapply often but the squirrels don’t like the taste of the red pepper or the smell of the coffee. But again, its not a one time thing, rain or normal watering dilutes both so i have to redo it often.
We had a drought in 2012 like now. We had a mole problem. I put twisted a piece of Juicy Fruit gum and stuffed it in the tunnel. Next day he was toes up on top of the ground. The following year I used Milky Spore and honestly we have not had them tunnel where I used it for many years now.
When we moved here the rodent gophers were everywhere and I mean everywhere. We trapped over 50 gophers that year using rat traps and a piece of celery leaf. They couldn't resist it. We would set it and walk 10 feet away and had another one.
I don't know about voles, but we had one at a place we lived and he chewed on our dogs beef bone so keep the bone meal locked up.
I recently seen a YouTube vid about non poisonous mouse poison. He mixed cornmeal and baking soda and the mice can't pass gas, so, you know. I thought that was a non poisonous safe for wildlife way to get rid of mice.
The coon we live trap along with any other that become a nuisance.
You know what else doesn’t work? Some of MIgardener’s 2022 seeds and Luke’s customer service department.
Nine days ago I wrote Luke’s company’s customer service department about non-germinating 2022 MIgardener seeds. I emphasized that I had been a loyal customer for several years and had obtained great results in prior years but some of the 2022 seeds had less than 50% germination rates, and some did not sprout at all. I very politely, reasonably, and in detail described the problem and asked what MIgardener could do about those problem seeds.
I got no response.
I’ve written to Luke’s customer service twice more and he continues to ignore me.
I used to be a loyal MIgardener YouTube subscriber and customer. That has now ended. I could understand and look past some problematic seeds, if only the seller was responsive to my communications and addressed the problem appropriately. Ignoring not one, not two but three emails from me to Luke’s customer service department is inexcusably bad service.
In case anyone is wondering, I was successful in sprouting seeds from all other suppliers this year, including three rare, hot pepper specialty seed suppliers, obtaining greater than 50%, sometimes 100% germination rates with notoriously hard-to-sprout ultra-hot peppers such as Carolina Reapers. Nor did I have trouble growing any of MIgardener’s seeds last year or the year before.
I recognize that the comment section on YouTube is not the preferred method of addressing complaints about a business’s products, but what other option did I have when that business continues to ignore multiple detailed and reasonable emails asking that the problem be addressed? I could understand a few days of delay if this was peak seed-selling season in the latter half of March or early April, but late May and early June should pose no problems for a seed business to respond to a customer.
Make that a former customer.
Gosh I don’t agree on this one. I use a solar powered ultrasonic motion detectors and it has worked for me for 8 years. The sound is so annoying pests (rabbits mainly) just don’t stick around. My dog permanently avoids my garden because of the sound. The high pitch sound even hurts my ears! Chipmunks on the other hand…they are jerks.
It's like kids! LOL! You yell at them, and they think they will get something done but you don't follow through. Very good video, Luke!
Any idea on how to eliminate rats? Those suckers are smart! Cats aren’t an option. Thanks! And love your videos!
My grandmother always kept a fake rubber snake in her garden and she would just move it a couple of times a week.
I sick of them, so now I'm putting my whole garden inside a bird mesh cage. A giant bird cage over the whole veggie garden. Checkmate.
Get a cat or dog to chase them away. Good ideas for people without guard pets!
I don't use deterrents anymore but i do use a 7.5-foot fence to keep everything out!
Because bunnies are a-holes.
Hardware cloth for the win. My dog loves to chase the bunnies but because I have the biggest garden in the neighborhood… Bunnies find it worth the risk.
Cayenne helps in my yard, as well the tulips get less damage when I plant garlic around them.
Voles definitely have stayed away from my yard four years now because of the solar repellent stakes that beep.
That doesn't mean any of it will work in your (different) yard but happy to share my successes and failures.
My 3 wiener dogs are the best pest deterrents 😀
While looking up growing Stevia I just saw you on a channel from 7 years ago called Larrys. I took off my glasses to double check. Glad you started this channel instead. But I also wanted to say thanks twice.
Anyone working in raised beds might find it helpful to fill in spaces with empty water bottles. It's helping me more than anything else I've tried, particularly with rodents. My 8×4 bed is filled with them like a mulch.