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I like that radio idea. Have no idea if it works, but it's worth a try.
Seems that nobody's garden is immune to pest & wildlife that eats up & destroy our hard work I thought I might share a few things that may or may not reduce our garden to destruction. And I am sure many here already know these tricks.....
1) Electric fence is obvious...
2) Motion Activated Sprinkler.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009F1R0GC?aaxitk=BrhqwGLD-B3Sgnz7T1.-gQ
These sprinklers do work...and this one in Amazon you can attach more hoses to connect to other regular sprinkler for all around defense. My two complaints with these is that they are not built to last and the batteries wear out quicker than normally would. However, bears may find it a playful toy.
Bonus: Planting one of these motion sprinkler at your front door keeps the J.W.s away.
3) Use a cheap radio. I have not tried this. It was suggested that the radio is placed in the garden or on the side and turned on at night and tuned into a talk show channel . The volume need not to be loud. So when small critters comes out at night they wont approach talking people on the radio.
4) Dragon Kites
I bought these originally to protect my chickens from Red Tailed hawk. The following day the kite was attacked by several birds. I was also happy to learn that my garden fared better with it around. The one pictured is exactly the dragon kite I used. My experience with this kite is that it needs to be moved around every two or three days and put away every evening.
5) Deer feeder
Some people claim that providing a feeding center for deer will protect your garden and fruit trees.
Wow, Daniel, that's a veritable plague of pests. I garden in the countryside, too (we're half a mile from the nearest residence to the south and a mile or more in the other directions), and we don't have much trouble at all. No fence, no need to net my sour cherries or raspberries, either.
We do often see moose and deer and rabbits and woodchucks and bears, sometimes, and coons and skunks at night, but they seldom bother the garden. Probably all that wildlife here has so many better options farther afield. Late in the fall, after I've put the garden to bed (except for the B. sprouts), deer will venture out of the woods to nose up any carrots I may have missed and the eats the tops of the B. sprouts, though they leave the sprouts themselves for us.
When a woodchuck does happen to blunder into the garden, which may happen once every few years, I know that, having discovered it, he'll keep coming back. So I get out the .22. That's the extent of the trouble we see here, though, I'm glad to say.
I had to give up on sweet corn years ago, though. The raccoons cannot resist it.
It's good to see bear prints. I've seen overturned trash cans in N. Florida, and several reports of bear sightings in S Indiana. They're getting around.
What a beautiful garden & forest Don!
Thanks, Kathy. I do often wish that we had a longer growing season here (50 miles south of Quebec). Earlier this month we visited friends in Boone, NC, up in the mountains, though, and their garden wasn't much farther along than ours. Yet, this year I do think we have turned the corner at last. Hot and Humid and sunny again today--and that's the near-term forecast.
In 40 years, thanks to a moderating climate (to put it benignly), our season has lengthened by nearly a month--two weeks on either end.
Yes, k.h, I've been gardening here for almost 40 years now, since 1978, and I've always used raised beds that I rake up every season. That way I can plant a cover crop of rye each fall and till that in in April. The raised beds never get walked on and hold water very well. They also give up their weeds pretty easily, and they allow for a much denser planting of beets, carrots, beans, lettuces, chard, and so on.
Thomas, I do get occasional visitors--raccoons and deer sometimes. The 'coons don't bother, and the deer munch a cabbage leaf or a bean plant now and then, but I'm surrounded by miles of field and woodland, where there's plenty to eat. Tnd they're happier farther from houses. That said, those foot prints in the 2014 garden are a wandering black bear's.
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