Garden Netting: Protecting crops in the Veggie Garden
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The allotment garden is bursting into life and as crops mature they attract the attention of birds, bunnies, and insects. Short of standing outside and shooing them away, it's important to keep juicy greens and plump berries netted. Now more than ever since it's turning out to be the year of the pheasant for me!
Pheasants have been digging up my potatoes, decimating my sweet peas, and making a real nuisance of themselves in our community garden. There's other wildlife eyeing up my veggies too! Pigeons, cabbage white butterflies, and carrot root fly to name a few.
This year I'm using three types of netting that will keep the critters at bay and I'll run you through each in this video. Not only that, but I'm draping them over some very snazzy high-quality aluminium hoops. They create space for plants to grow, look great, and will last for years. The same goes for the netting.
In this video:
✽ a look at the crops I have growing in the garden in May
✽ Soft butterfly netting for the cabbage white butterfly & pheasants
✽ Veggiemesh netting for the carrot root fly
✽ Super soft bird netting for pigeons and other berry eating birds
✽ Aluminium hoops for the netting to fit over
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Phenomenal success in protecting the bebes. I love how there are different ones for different applications. Very instructive
South Texas we have armadillos, possums, foxes, pill bugs, wild bore, crazy white grubs, tortoises, over 20 different varieties of moths and grubs or caterpillars, stink bugs, cucumber/flea beetles, potato beetles, so many more I don't even know....oh and snails galore.
That pheasant scared the heck out of me, and only imagine how it was in real life! Glad to see some wildlife habitat on your place, and another good idea to protect a garden without having to kill all the lovely "pests." Thank you.
When I ran out of cash and mesh I found some swarthy of old lace and it is perfect for my raspberries and looks lovely to boot...its washable and now on its 3rd year. Thank you for this video, very nice.
you have such a beautiful garden. so well nourished, i've never seen so many blooms on strawberries. thanks for sharing.
Great video! This is the year of the pigeon for me who have loved eating new growth in the flower patches. I am going to have to net a lot more than I usually do. I use gardening naturally too and have semi circular hoops but it was interesting seeing how the square hoops gave you a bit more space in the bed x
California girl here. Feral cats! They love the guest litter boxes I've made for them! Lol, tears. We have a plastic bird betting and I hate it. It is difficult to work with and catches on everything. I'm going to look for the butterfly netting and give that a try. I like the square angles frames over the hoops.
I've followed you on Instagram & YT for ages. Every time we run into a problem in the vegetable garden, your videos appear with a solution. I believe another video is your first greenhouse video back when you moved to your new plot of land. Not sure what the problem we faced was, but your greenhouse video was one of the few on the topic and solved it. Thank you for all the valuable information!
I am so happy that I've been able to help! Thank you so much for your kind comment -- it means a lot 💚
Here in Australia in my ecovillage I am dealing with bandicoots, hares, possums, bush turkeys, flying foxes, kangaroos, and loads of insects as well. I also have snails and slugs. So netting will have to be compulsory in my garden. The white butterflies are plentiful and already laying their eggs on my brassicas...Thank you for sharing the solutions for a gardener in distress!!!
Thanks for an excellent video. Thanks to you and your discount code I have now placed an order with Gardening Naturally for a Square Aluminium Hoop Netting Tunnel Kit and a couple of other items, ready for my first 'serious' season of growing organic veg in my garden. Of course I have also liked and subscribed! 👍😎
Love your videos! Here in my north europe garden my biggest problem is blackbirds and other birds. For protecting my strawberries, I have great tip: every spring I paint some stones red and place them near my strawberry bushes. When the real red berries appear, birds will not be as interested of them.
Greetings from Australia......The one thing missing from your Garden is some Beehives......I can see that you love nature so much. When you see your Bees diving into your flowers it will give you a very great feeling, trust me!
I was shocked to hear of the fly that invades your carrots.....we dont have too many pests here which is a blessing. The worst pest is the blackbird that keeps digging up seeds and seedlings. Bird netting is a must.
Very informative and you look sporty too! Double bonus!
Very informative on the netting. Deer here are held back with an 8 foot high fence. Funny how watching gardening can soothe the mood from a difficult day.
Getting out in the garden can do that too :) There's no deer here to feast on the garden but I have a lot of sympathy for those who have them around. 8 foot fences...wow
Hello from Russia! I really love your videos. Very beautiful and informative! Thank you!:))
OH! I just love the surroundings! Must be lovely to garden there. Thanks for a nice video!
Quail ate everything last year, so I am using netting this year.
Lovely ideas and so creative. Thanks for sharing.
perfect timing. I need to protect my beet root from snowshoe hare this year. the aluminum hoops and black netting will look much better and more versatile than the chicken wire fence that I was planning.
Snowshoe hares...I've only seen them on TV before. Are they brown or white at the moment? Glad to help with the netting ideas!
My biggest problems are slugs and flea beetle. This year I invested in the ultra fine vegimesh and seems to be doing the job but I’ve also started growing some salad greens in window boxes, nearer the house, just on a shelf unit and it’s very successful and handy. I use garden naturally and the aluminium hoops are expensive but worth it as so versatile.
Thank you from New Jersey. I enjoyed this video and it’s content!
Really good video advice about types of netting to use 👍
I use clips to hold the carrot fly netting down (instead of puncturing the net with metal camping pegs). I run a cane along the edge and then hold it down with the camping pegs and then fold the netting under then clip onto that.
Great tip!
Ty! This helped with the bunny’s and birds eating all my strawberry’s
Greetings from western Wisconsin! My garden pests: deer, gophers, moles, voles, rabbits, squirrels, etc. Our morning doves love to sit in our gardens, but I think they are finding slugs, or "anting" to clean themselves. I'm planning on making cages by bending hardware cloth into boxes, and placing them over the raised beds. Our blueberry, serviceberry, and honeyberry bushes will probably need to be netted at some point from the birds. Love your beautiful gardens, tips, and informative videos!
I would like to know how much is that screening that you using for your garden I'm over here in Miami Florida and I have a small garden but there is a lot of insect and I would like to race my veggies and netting Garden thank you so much
In USA (eastern), we deal with deer, rabbits, native birds, Voles (moles), raccoons & other crawling critters. I put up a metal fence 1 meter high (50x100mm openings) because the nylon fence was chewed through by animals. Birds thin my bean sprouts and damage tomatoes. grapes and any type of berry. Also have squirrels and rats.
Thanks for this video, great information. Last season deer ate the tops off of all the peas at beginning of flowering. We don't understand why but the result was the best pea yield we have ever had. The most frustrating garden pest we have here is raccoon which love to do a mass sample of corn cobs just prior to being ready to pick. In a single visit they can destroy an entire crop. High power electric fence is the only way we have found to keep them at bay.
That's interesting that you say that. Especially since the advice for growing sweet peas is to pinch off the growing tips so that the plant becomes bushier and produces more flowers.
Raccoons sound like a nightmare!
I plant my carrots in pots and raise them up, so they are higher than 2’ 6” off the ground to avoid carrot root fly. Pigeons are terrible and strip my cabbage leaves, so I’m using netting and frames another allotment user gave me in exchange for plants. Thanks for the discount code! I need to protect my strawberries now as they are already fruiting and feeding the birds!
Strawberries already fruiting! Whoop! Mine have about a month to go I expect. No probs with the code :) Every little helps!
old CDs hanging everywhere in the garden helps keep birds away... the spinning reflective surface can help for some larger mammals also! love the vids!
Thanks! Good tip too :)
How do I keep blue monkey balls away?
I am from Lombardy and here I have problems with foxes, badgers, blackbirds, dormice mainly for the grape in the vineyard. In the kitchen garden the main issues are hares (I can't grow salsify because of them) and since last week wild boars .. I need a new fencing but I am not the land owner and therefore the cost of replacement is not worth it! About insects the worst ones are potato bug, corn borer, codling moth, carrot fly and Allum leaf miner. For the first two I treat the crops with spinosad (organic) while for the codling moth I started last year to use the Alt-Carpo net on apple trees. This Autumn I'm going to try the netting for the last two pests too! Nice videos ;)
Love that tip of rolling the netting instead of cutting it so that you can re-use at any size. Thanks! The pest I have to deal with is a raccoon. I made circular cages with hardware cloth and zip ties. I buried them a foot down and, since they are tall, I cut areas from the top and bent them down for easy access for when I bend down to tend inside the cages. I also plant veggies and flowers for the raccoon outside of the cages (I just kind of let them go and I don't tend to them so much) and in the past that has kept the raccoon contented, so it seems we have an agreement :)
Welcome :) It makes sense doesn't it? I used to have bits of netting cut to size each year but it was such a waste.
And I totally love your truce with the raccoon :) We need to make space for wildlife and try to get a harvest!
:) It's kind of funny because last summer that worked...until the raccoon's veggies were looking really ratty towards the end of the summer and I ripped them up. That was the week the raccoon re-attempted getting into the cages for my veggies. So this summer I'm leaving the raccoon's veggies in as long as mine!
Csn you provide the netting company？ i like order from this company. Thanks very much.
Thank you for being so responsible with your netting choices
Fox's! I grow onions/garlic in bought compost, 'cos is white rot. I suspect that the compost encourage s worms - good thing!, But foxes really love a juicey, wormy snack, so they dig in the compost, uprooting my onions! I stick woodenforks into the ground around the onions. This year, I've also used teasels scattered around the bed, which seemed to help. For carrots, I use o?d net curtains!
Great job like always
The peas gutter is genius
Thank you! I’m just learning. My biggest concern right now is my naughty doggies. 😀
I'm in California...sad thing, when I tried to use netting around my garden three huge gorpher snakes were caught in it...I was able to save one by carefully cutting away the netting...but the others were baked in the sun. I wish I could use it, but the snakes are very important to keep the gophers in check...which are a huge problem for home gardeners here. Thanks your video was inspiring anyway:)
Here in the states. We use cpvs or standard pvc without needing gluing joints.. very cheap.. use a bit of rebar to have grounding.. then vary based on need.
Quite lovely...greens
Thank you so much for a useful video. I cannot explain the devastation I felt yesterday when I got to my patch which I had been tend and had protected with a netted dome for the last 3 months. Our wildlife are a troop of monkeys which traipse through my yard twice a day. I took photos in the morning to share with my extended family around the country - we live in South Africa and are still in lockdown(less severe but still not able to visit each other). My cauliflower was looking so good and when I went out in the late afternoon to water, for the first time in the last 3 years since I started using the dome, the monkeys somehow found a way in. They broke all the stems of the cauliflower which had bloomed and bit into each head and left the devastation. I've been feeling really low about this as I have battled to grow much with the monkeys about and was so excited to be harvesting the cauliflower in a week or so. I hadn't grown them before. I will need to figure out next steps as failure of this magnitude is not going to hold me back - from sunny Durban, South Africa PS. we also have a mole that tries to test my patience.
Wow! I can't imagine having to deal with a pest that has hands and is really clever...
Moles will only eat insects and not plants, but voles will travel through mole holes and totally cause havoc in the garden... Rat traps with peanut butter works great for voles...
Wow, that's another level of pest problems.
Pests this year are having a hay day. Squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, blue jays ... one or all of them are chomping the leaves and sometimes stems off of all of our cucumber plants, squash plants. I did put up some netting and also surrounded the squash and zucchini with 1" chicken wire, but they are still getting in and having lunch & dinner. I probably am going to have to figure out how to protect the tomatoes when they ripen. Some of the small squash fruit already have bites out of them. I did read that the fabric Tulle is helpful.
I've got the L plates on. 1st year of growing veggies. Pigeons and snails main wildlife here but got a wee treat the other night when hedgehog scuttled pass.
The neighborhood cats. I have only one raised bed they seem to get into. I haven’t protected it yet but you gave me some good idea’s.
A floating net/cover should do the trick :)
Thanks so much. Very helpful.
As someone commented below this fly doesn't get high off the ground. 15" or 60 cm or so.I have several long raised beds as garden borders and using early peas( the tall types nea plus ultra or alderman) it help to keep them out! Usually I don't have to many problems . I have now learned to plant 2,3 or even 4 different times to help the odds! My main issue is that white cabbage moth butter fly! Even with the netting. I like your hoops idea though . And deer yes( one year ) I counted 22 in the field beside the house . They even walk by the garden in the summer with the young ones but I have 4 dogs so they help! Nice videos by the way and good luck with the pests!!
22 deer! You were lucky to have a harvest that year!
Japanese beetles, deer, squash and potato bugs, aphids, crows, hornworms
It's too bad Gardening Naturally only delivers in UK! Thanks for the awesome video, very inspiring to have a farm of my own one day - it sure looks like you've put a lot of work and love into yours.
Yes. I’m in US Pennsylvania.
My worst garden "DESTRUCToRS" are my own Peacocks. They strolled through my Potager and helped themselves to a salad, eating ALL the Chard, Nasturtiums, Parsley and Beets.... all in one morning! I had to replant everything, then I made a garden tunnel using Goat fencing. They can't quite get their head between the spaces and it doesn't look TOO ugly. If need be, I can put netting over the top of that to keep out the smaller beasties.
The carrot fly is not able to fly higher than 40 cm. So if you put a barrier around that is 50 cm high ( or 60 if you want to be very sure) the fly won't harm your carrots. You can try this out by sowing in a pot and put it on a table.
I have a beautiful bluejay eating my broccoli and cauliflower leaves this year...
Lovely!
I have found that the veggy mesh used for carrot fly is better over Brassicas because if your green leaves touch the netting butterfly only need too get their rear end on them too lay eggs
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thank you 😊... very informative !
I have squirrels.which is a pest. Thank you for your inspirational video. I would like to know more about the netting.
Cats are my big problem at the moment, they are digging up entire rows, digging up plants or snapping them, or burying rows of seedlings. So frustrating, so I’m glad to see this netting video.
I love my kitties but yes, they can be a real nuisance. I find that mine only like to dig the soil, not mulch. Have you mulched your garden too?
Beautiful Garden, 👍📹
Great video my friend!
We have mischievous squirrels that like to pick ripe tomatoes and take a bite, toss them down and take another tomato to take a bite and toss it down. There is also some raccoons and a mole. The netting they say will help because even though they could bite through it they don't like how it feels on their feet.
For the mole, I sank sticks 6 centimeters into the ground in a tight row and successfully redirected the mole's path away from the sugar snap peas. I believe he bumped his nose on the sticks and turned away, unaware that it was keeping him from getting to the sugar snap pea roots.
I have bought three sizes of "fruit bags," which are used to put over ripening fruit, or even branches on a tree, depending on the size you buy. I've got a loquat tree, and love them, but so do the squirrels, and they are uncanny in knowing the exact second they are worth eating. They have left zero for me, year after year. So a couple of weeks ago I started putting the bags, which are synthetic, but extremely fine mesh over them, and tied them really tight, light a purse string. I have enjoyed a few of my loquats, and left the high ones for the squirrels. Today I saw that the squirrel had tried to bite two of the fruits, and put a small hole in the bag, but then left. The fruit was ruined. But as they get to know these bags, and what they taste like, they will probably not bother with them. It's a learning curve for them and me. I am using them also on my orange tree than is just now coming into bloom, but I am waiting for the fruits to set before using the bags. I have tomato plants just starting, and I can wrap the whole container in the bags with wooden skewers inside to hold the bags upright. I have had problems with tomato horn worms. I like the bags because I can water right through it, and they will last for years. Looking forward this year to being able to protect what I grow. I also found that used coffee grounds and used leaf tea works miracles for plants, especially in a heavy foliar feed. Unbelievable! YT has videos!
Great video.
Great, clear and cheerful video. Thanks! It was really good to hear of this UK company as I am here in the UK. I will look up those metal square hoops. I'd have loved to see your struggle to get the bird netting on your stakes! It seems an impossible task to me. Question: you grow so much! do you manage to eat it all? Thanks!
Thank you very much
Inspiring !
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I live on the edge of a pine forest in northern Minnesota USA and the animals are ruthless, deer, wild turkeys, rabbits, squirrels, birds, moles, mice, raccoons, skunks, fox, insects........I have so many “booby traps” I can’t get to my own garden :(
The deer are the worst ! Grrrrrrrrr
Then, I feel sorry for some cats in the area during our long hard winters so I feed them, ugh....I just want them to behave :) I don’t even like cats but I can’t see a hungry animal and not feed it 🙄 oh the struggles!
Great video !
Excellent video, thank you very much. We planted some spring onions, carrots and beetroot in our little vegetable patch in our back garden and I am pretty sure the pigeons have now eaten them all up, the pests! We will definitely be re-seeing. We have bought some netting but whereabouts did you get those netting clips from? They look the business!
I just moved south to Florida and we have squirrels, loads of birds and at least one neighbor's cat. The heat is horrendous so gardening will probalby start in early fall here. I have raised beds already here; looking forward to cooler weather.
Hot and humid is what I'm imagining -- you're probably wise to wait until it's a wee bit cooler!
I feel your pain! South Alabama has heat and humidity problems though likely not as bad as yours. May I recommend a little jewel of a book: Gardening in the Humid South by Edmund N, O'Rourke and Leon Standifer and published by LSU Press. These 2 Louisiana guys have lots of experience!
Squirrels are the number 1 chattering pest. They live on the property and love to bury their nuts and dig up your crops. Utilizing raised beds, hoops, aluminum window screening and row covers. Tunnel house has ceiling vents with bars and window screening.
I can never find the black netting for my own garden I do have netting but it's the white one which is a mesh netting which I'm using for my strawberry plants and the reason I'm using it is because there are loads of pigeons always around my garden plus I already have strawberry's forming so they do not need anymore pollination but I am looking to get a butterfly netting I do have a bird netting but it's not the best and I actually don't think it would even stop the Bird's from getting to my crops
Thank you for your video. We live in northern Michigan in the woods. This year chipmunks have destroyed my entire potato crop. They dig them out. Also, bords from the woods have been eating all my squash blossoms and destroying the small squashes! Im going to try netting next year. Its very disappointing this year.
You are so lovely, Thanks!
I have Asian Jumping Worms here in Northwest PA. USA. No one has any ideas how to safely eradicate them from the garden. Oh well so much for the experts, I am sure the control will come from the community than the university or Gov. extensions.
Great video. I was looking for ideas to keep out Scrub turkeys. These birds are big and love to scratch all day long. Very destructive. I live in rainforest jungle. Hello from Australia
Really enjoyed your video. I'm in Canada. Our carrot maggot flies don't seem to fly very high. If you plant your carrots in a barrel at least 40cm high the carrot flies don't seem to fly very high and so don't get the maggots in them. I noticed I have maggots in my hakurei turnips now. I'm going to try planting them in half barrels and see if that helps.
Those square hoops for the netting look like a great idea. Never saw hoops like that before. In my area lots of people are getting rid of their old trampolines. Seems to me that the square tubing under those would make great hoops. Just need to hammer in some smaller tubing into the ground and put those square tubes on top. Can them make to any height.
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I have mine growing in containers this year but they’re so much easier to grow in the ground. Less watering! The veggie mesh works a treat against the carrot root fly though :)
Good thinking with the trampoline parts! Always better to reuse and repurpose before buying new 👍🏼
What are the loops for the netting your are using . Where can they be sourced. Great video. Thanks for your information.
thanks
Someone is a lucky man !!
You are awesome
This is a year later but after years of gardening with only a little damage from animals this past year we had rabbits absolutely destroy my garden. What they didn't eat to the ground they clipped off and left to die. Finally got them netted out and things growing and the deer decided to eat the rest.
I bought fencing and asked for and received t-posts for my birthday and we put up a rabbit and deer fence Easter sunday(well couldn't have giant easter feast with family due to social distancing had to do something)
So far I've walked out to see rabbits trying to figure out the fence but its working!
I have fine tulle looking netting fir cabbage loopers and even shade cloth for early planting(we got snow yesterday!) But so far the birds dont seem to like what I plant and I live near several small berry farms that tend to draw them away from my small plots of berries.
You’ll have more of a harvest this year, I’m sure. Remember though that rabbits will dig. Keep an eye out for any activity.
@@Lovelygreens thank you for mentioning that. We did put a bit of fence folded out and pinned to the ground to help with digging. I've seen a couple standing at the fence looking in already. Feels like I'm the new farmer McGregor and Peter still trying to win! Lol
Our annoying birds are mockingbirds. We don't have the ones you talked about. I also use the netting over our blueberries and I use it around our gardens as a fencing to keep out our free ranging chickens. lol
Mice, chip monks and squirrels. 1/4" hardware cloth. These critters go through plastic nets like a hot knife through butter.
The beginning brought me back to when moving irrigation pipes in our orchard ,I'd be on top of a pheasant and it would take off, gets the heart racing for sure! Cheers from the Okanogan Valley BC 😎
Cheers Jim! They sure can :) At least it wasn't something with a bit more bite -- bet you came across those too
Yes indeed I have come across a few rattle snakes.They get your heart goes too! Lol
Might be the answer to my squirrel and iguana problems
Do interplanting and you will end up with few pest issues. If you plant only a single crop in a raised bed, you will end up with pests. Make it difficult for your pests to find their food. Also, if you have trees, fruit trees, shrubs, ... interplanted with your vegetables, you will also end up with fewer pest issues. Small birds will fly around eating bugs for you. Interplanting will also reduce the damage by slugs and snails cause again they will have to wander around to find food. I have grass everywhere. It make it difficult for slugs and snails to move around. Wood chips and raised bed will encourage slugs and snails.
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Waskalie Wabbits here in Australia, raised bed and net or shade cloth
Noo, I’ve come to this video a year too late to use the code! Really helpful though, thanks!
It should still work :) if not, try GREENS
I usen repellants too
My main pests are pidgeons,slugs,whitefly and allium leek moth everything attacked by those is grown under netting or insect mesh.I grow my carrots with a barrier around the bed ,this year I am using polycarbonate sheeting which I was given its held in place with canes and twine.Flea beetle is also a pain on any early brassica such as Rocket and Mizuna despite mesh cover...I was planning to get those yellow card sticky traps for them and the whitefly.
PS a good video from you.Your garden looks so peaceful except for the odd pheasant surprise 😊
I had a fright too! Didn't realise she was in the grass 😂
Great tips!
ENJOYED YOUR VIDEO AND YOUR GARDEN I HAVE PROBLEMS WITH BIRDS EATTING MY FLOWERS I MAD ME SOME GARDEN CAGES TO PUT OVER MY RASIED BEDS TWO OF THEM IAM NOT ABLE TO USE RIGHT NOW BECOUSE I HAVE TALL TOMATOE PLANTS GROWING
Do you have links for the veggie netting and the other netting that you used (for your berries, blue berries etc.)? Thank you for all the great information! I've subscribed.
For us it’s foxes digging tunnels or cats using our raised beds for toilets.
Ty!!
What do you use to warm the space in colder weather?
Where did you get the netting clips at?
We really enjoy your videos. Here in southern California, we are dealing with squirrels digging up our little seedlings. The netting is a good idea!
Cute little trouble makers. Netting will definitely help but keep an eye on it -- squirrels might get caught up in it.
BB Gun.
Hello just found your channel just wondered have you had any issues with the fine white veggie mesh I'm getting a few holes in mine and some look like just opening up. Thanks
this year iam planting nicotiana the leaves are sticky pests land on them they cant get off until they are removed
We do not have carrot root fly in my area. But I have Cabbage moth terribly! I have two dogs that scare away most predators in my area.
You’re lucky to not have the carrot root fly! Every garden has its challenging wildlife (insects) though. Nice one with the pups :)