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I hear ya! Had raccoons eat some of my banana peppers & pepperoncinis this summer.

Great idea! I use my lawn mower with bag on to create mulch from banana leaves and other yard "waste". Works wonders! 😊

Michelle, I love African Blue Basil too!! The pollinators really do love it also, the plant is always alive with native bees. I need to take some cutting from mine too. This is a must have plant for me. I planted Seminole pumpkins for the first time about a month or two ago and the green caterpillars are really taking a toll on the leaves. The vines are still “growing on”though. 😊

I love the smell of Holy Basil and it looks so similar to what you're growing. It smells like bubble gum. But I have no clue what to cook it in.😅 it's just a nice treat to smell when I'm out by my garden. Oh, but the aphids have gotten all over it lately. Do you have any tricks for aphids? I hate those little suckers!!

They love basil! Cinnamon basil is great for the wonderful smell!

Love any plant that brings on the pollinators like this. Plus! It seems so easy to take care of. Sounds like a win / win

So glad you made it through Michelle! Its always a good time to walk around and see what's up! Your overflow system is brilliant!

Would like to see you fill the garden by layers. Do you start with cardboard at the bottom?

I cant say I've ever seen an up close image of a banana blossom. So cool! I was thinking about you today, you gonna do a live soon ??

Can you use pine cones as part of the bottom layer of organic materials when making a “lasagna” in a raised bed?

Im from the Caribbean St.Lucia and it grows very well in my garden

Ya could just fill the can without the house

"I didn't plant X this year." Yeah... I feel that. That's like half my garden this year!

Now that its been two years. What do you think of them both ?? 2024, Australia has become little China so in all honesty it doesn’t really matter where you buy it from! Thank you for your video. It was very helpful. I’m in Northwest Florida and have 2- 1000 square-foot in ground gardens and am considering slowly but surely replacing with raised beds. We have a metal roofing manufacturer here near Panama City and they sell double sided painted sheets so my neighbor made her raised garden out of that material and I’m thinking that the paint would definitely protect from aluminum leakage, but I am considering these as well..

LOVED the boiling water trick! Before I found your video, I warmed my hose in the sun, used oil to grease it, tried dish soap, all to no avail. Boiling water was the game changer, thank you so much!

I have 14 birdies beds so far. I only have the tall in 6' and none of them have the braces, they are all fine after about 4 years. I do have braces in some low beds that are 8' or more and havent seen a problem yet. The high beds do settle up to a foot a year still. seems every spring Im still buying a lot of peat. I have used them for composters for a year or two filling with whatever leaves, waste I can get. The next high bed I fill, I may try filling the bottom half or 2/3 with sand, then soil on top to try to curb the sink.

Put your Barrel up higher on a stand or something. And your spout needs to be lower so there's more gravity pushing on it

Thank you for all this information!

What is the discount code for the Birdies?

Do you know how hard it would be to transplant/dig up a 10 foot morimga tree?

Michelle, you can take this down, if you like. Diet Doctor: TH-cam channel and website. Dr. Boz (Annette Bosworth, MD), also on TH-cam and her own website.

Worst weed ever nothing kills it

Hi 🖐🏽 yes I have them planted around just before hurricane 🌀 Beryl hit us. They were in seed trays 🙌🏽so safe safe. We're in Houston 9b. I can't find information about how long before they fruit. A channel showed day 1 and 45. Anyway, I planted a few plants on the north, south, east and nw of the house, trying to figure which side is best for next year. ☺️ Houston heat is a beast. But I bought a traveller's palm from someone in Florida & giant white birds of paradise and 😮😅 they're like... bring it. Hurricane 🌀 Beryl did bend my one year old traveller's but didn't uproot her. I do hope I get lots of wing beans before mid November. Ah ☝🏽🥳 I have green and purple variety. Thank you for sharing your successes and failures. If I get half your harvest, I'll consider it a bumper crop. I do want to pickle and can some for power outages during hurricane 🌀 season ❤ blessings to you and your family

Looks like things fared pretty well with Debbie. Daytona was just on the fringes (and most didn't notice it here in southern Idaho Now it's time to prepare for the next one. I'll be down there with you in a few weeks. (Hate to leave here!)

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Thank you.

I was thinking about you when I heard about this storm, but it looks like you did great prep to minimize damage. Hope everything continues to go well!

How tall are they

Looks like you were in the thick of it. Hoping not too much damage from Debby. Stay safe.

My Thai Soldier beans grew up the back of my chicken coop and tried to attach themselves to the oak tree branches. The storm blew them off but they are always one of the most prolific things I grow.

Great tips Michelle. About to fill 5 2.5m x 1.2m x 80cm high Birdies. Best wishes from Australia

Oh my goodness, so much work. I pray that you don’t experience any damage.

My plan, at least until I return in Sept, is to be somewhere else a long ways away and hope for the best back home. The raccoons have probably already got past the electric fence so the garden is on its own. This one looks pretty minimal but in any case stay safe my friend.

Beryl destroyed my bush green beans, and drowned my zucchini. Leaves stripped right off of my chard. Hoping you fare easier with this TS. My shade cloth stayed put, but points of contact with garden frames is shredded. Since Tropical storms are mostly a rain flooding hazard, afterwards be prepared to unclog drainage near raised beds and in large pots. The winds will damage leaves and fruit laden branches.

Good luck!

Maybe the storm will blow the avocado/banana eating raccoons to another county….. stay safe

My area just got the stuffing kicked out of us by Beryl. I hope you do not get hit nearly that hard. Fortunately summer is downtime here so the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been. For the orchard row trees - 3/8" rebar is really cheap at HD/Lowes. I like to buy the 10' lengths and cut them in half with an angle grinder but you can also buy 5' lengths. Jam those into the ground by a foot or so and tie the skinny little trees to them. The rebar is flexible but if anchored deeply it will help brace them. Good luck to you. Be safe!

Tightening the screw clamp firmly is very important. Leaks if you don't.

BB gun.

Would super bright motion detector lights work. Or maybe large flashing Christmas tree lights intertwined in the branches. Or a really thorny bush !!! Gosh Michelle raccoons are so brazen.

sand is not a good mulch...traps air

What about a motion detected sprinkler? You want to make it an unpleasant experience to keep them from coming back...

Very crafty and sneaky 😏

Oh no. That doesn't seem like any fun at all! I am rooting for you! All I could think of was a giant cage, like an inverted catio, that would keep the racoon out of arm's reach of the tree. Seems a lot of work though.

Those critters are smart and persistent. When all else fails, which it probably will, I have a pretty good raccoon jerky recipe ;-) (But they are greasy).

I put excess cat food out in the back of the yard and it keeps most of the raccoons out of the garden. But they are terrorizing my neighbor, who is feeding the cats, while I am gone. I also put an electric fence around the main garden but it will ground out while I am away as the weeds grow. I'm sure the coons will have a feast on the corn I left growing as soon as they get past the fence.

I moved to a new place and have many of them. Wondering for what purpose I can use these?

Raccoons are clever! My friend uses an electric fence but $$$. I'm cheering for you!

Vego garden is now having something self watering available

You might try "Safer 5929 Critter Ridder Animal Repellent". or a Motion Activated Water Sprayer. Considering what you have been dealing with I think your garden looks great. Thank you for sharing your progress with us.