In this video I will show you how to keep Squirrels, Rabbits, Birds, Caterpillars, Rats, Mice, Bugs like Squash Bug and Squash vine borers, raccoons and more from eating your organic garden produce. And it is all done with one item that is super easy to get.
Also watch this video for more organic pest control solutions: https://youtu.be/ktSPLAyh0dc
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I love this as a solution. And tulle is fairly inexpensive (at least until all the gardeners put a run on the fabric market and jack prices up LOL). Curious what pests this doesn’t work on? Aphids, thrips, mites? Are these small enough to get through the netting?
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Most annoying pests: Japanese Beetles during the day and Asian Garden Beetles during the night.
Also, some unidentified tiny worm that eats potatoes and corn.
My worst garden pest by far is squash bugs and squash vine borers. Hate them!!!
My problem with Tule is that larger birds like Blue Jays and Cactus Wrens easily tear through it with their strong beaks. It is also not large enough (width) to cover a full sized fruit tree.
The squirrels have been terrible this year!
Brian is right about netting. When we put anti deer mesh we found few chipmunks hanging by their necks strangled to death by it and a few squirrels with netting in their mouths. They chewed part way through it and choked to death. They were difficult to remove from the netting and smelled bad too. We had to use the netting though because of deer. I knew if I killed deer city would not remove them and what am I going to do with 400 lbs of dead meat in my yard? I don't even eat meat. City where we live is 100% useless. Some cities are more proactive and kill nuisance wildlife before it becomes public health and safety issue. Where I live they ask residents to do their dirty work.
Voles and squirrels!!!!! My next door neighbor leaves bowls of peanut all over the deck and the squirrels are burying them all over my yard and in my pots! Now, I have peanuts growing all over my property! Then there’s all the voles! Help! My lawn is destroyed!
Brilliant!
My sister has issues with deer, but mine is slugs
How do you keep the neighborhood cats off of your garden?
Just a terrific idea! Who woulda thunk?? I am definitely going to put this one in practice. Could have saved ma a lot of work earlier in the season! Thanks, Brian!
Since I do costuming for summer theater, I have used leftover tulle to cover my blueberry plants for over 25 years. One year a photographer flew an airplane over the neighborhood taking pictures of the farms. He came to the house to sell those photographs my blueberry patch appeared to be multicolored popsicles because of all the colors of tool I had used. Obviously, I bought photograph
Fabulously idea! Can’t wait to try it!
I’ve been using this stuff for years. My garden looks like a Caspar’s Ghost convention. However I really like the idea of using the black variety!
I use dark green tulle. because it blends in even better than black. I plant my lettuces in a window box that isn't attached to anything. I can pick it up easily and move it when necessary, although most of the time I have it set on something about four feet high. . The tulle keeps out everything, – birds, bugs, slugs, etc. and I can pick lettuce leaves easily. Last year I had some other greens in with the lettuces. baby pak choy and mizuna.
Deer! Lovely doe-eyed creatures. Deer are delicate, elegant of movement – and utterly voracious. They are PARTICULALRY fond of expensive peonies and roses. They turn their elegant noses up at cheap filler plants that I don't mind losing, they go for the $72 rare tree peony! Every time I find a munched plant, dreams of venison dance through my mind. The secret for me was to confuse the enemy. Deer can easily leap over an 8' (and with a really hungry deer, even a 10' fence). BUT they won't do it if they can't see a place to land. Therefore, I put up a 6' fence and cluttered up all the landing areas with plant teepees, topiaries, garden green stalks, dwarf fruit trees elevated in pots, vines growing up cattle fences – you name it, I've tried it. Arches and arbors and pergolas abound around the perimeter of my property. I named my chicken coop Fort Hennington. It looks like a high-security prison because (according to the helpful brochure from the local USDA Extension office) there are over 30 deadly predators in the Arizona mountains that would love to eat my chickens or their eggs (snakes) or their food (every bird and rodent known to the Southwest desert). So, I'm hunkered down, as prepared as I can get – wish me luck!
I love using tulle. Keeps the deer (among other pests) out of my garden.
ants and aphids
I throw tulle over my tomatoes but never thought about using it for seedlings! Also using clothespins is a good idea. 👏
I used to have chicken coops and would add tulle as a second layer. I did find that it seemed to disintegrate in strength over the long Calif season. Regardless, I think it will try to use it more. Thanks for the ideas!
Oh pigeons are a nightmare in my garden. They eat the leafy greens or dig around in the soil for ants and dig up my seedlings. Toile is a good idea, what is it made of?
So question: do you need to use garden stakes when draping it over raised beds or around plants where animals can get up under the tulle? I’ve had to do that with my bird netting and it’s such a pain to harvest ie my strawberries containers. I can’t figure a better way and the bunnies and deer still broke the fiberglass supports trying to get in. Looking for an easier solution to both protection and ease of harvesting.
Snails, Earwigs and Pillbugs(rollypollys)!!!!!
Monkeys!! Real pests.