TEDDY vs TURKEY - How to deter wild turkeys from your vegetable garden.
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- Another great tip from a friend gets put to the test in this episode of TWG. Can I keep bush turkeys from wrecking my garden using old teddy bears? YES? ...MAYBE? UPDATED = NO. This technique worked for about two weeks. Then they came back. But hey...keep watching. It`s a fun video.
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I wish that teddy thing worked on dogs.
My roommates got a puppy which does the same thing as the bush turkeys.
I call the puppy 'devil mutt'.
The only thing I have found to prevent bush turkey damage is to surround ever single plant with chicken wire or piles of straggly branches. If they can't reach the soil they can't dig it up. You can't do a half-assed job of it or leave it until the next day after planting or they will find it and destroy it.
I'm glad the bush turkeys are being kept at bay by your ferocious army of teddy bears! Also, can I just say, you are an absolute master at creating a wonderful experience in your videos. The storytelling is top notch, the information is helpful and fun to learn, and your creative style of cinematography is delicious to watch.
Love comments like yours Jon. Gives me reason to carry on 🙏🏻👍
@@TheWeedyGarden Your channel is a delightful mix for me because I'm a videographer and I love gardening! Definitely keep it up!!
@@jonathanhill7026 Seconding Jonathan’s comments! The Weedy Garden is a true delight! I’m sharing them with anyone who will listen.
chop and drop large logs all around the trees to stop the bush turkeys from scrating up the bottom of the roots that you want to protect. They can not move them see, thats how you stop them, it just may not look clean but it solves the problem. love ya work weedy hope that helps you mate. drop some big trees to get the logs. don't hurt the birds they go else where. also put net over them till they go else where, a deterant.
Roger. Did that to about 1/3 of my cassava and yacon so I was able to harvest enough to make 5 kg cassava flour and 1 litre of yacon syrup. They got everything else. I ran out of chop and drop and was not bothered to net, or chase more sticks! Good call 👍💪🏻🙏🏻
Geoff just told us about your Teddy Bear story in his Permaculture workshop this past Friday in South Africa and we were cracking ourselves 🤣 what an awesome out of the box idea!
Seriously! 🤣🤣🤣 Well it’s headline news around the Permie world atm. Might even send the Teddy share up and turn bullish!
I was so happy to see a new video and then so sad to see all the damage done to everything you’ve worked so hard to grow. 😢
I hope the teddys continue to do their job now that they are hanging about. We love everything about the Weedy Garden and want to see it thrive. 😊❤️
It is a green classroom.
I am amazed how much damage smallish birds can do. It's like a herd of elephants came through.
yeah !!
Very nice way of dealing with a garden pest and great story-telling!
OMG... my favourite so far 🤣heartbreaking to see the garden destruction but awesome that you found a solution (and made us laugh and learn in the process). Your channel is my favourite and your videos are just the absolute best. I am going to rent the movie this weekend and can't wait. Thanks again Weedy :)
Happy Father’s Day Weedy. Teddy bear picket line. Love it.....A classic permaculture example of choosing to include or exclude an aspect of the local fauna.
Happy fathers day to your dad David too Troy 👍
I am glad the teddy bear trick worked for you, they are birds, so the compost you put around the plants is full of bugs and yummy food! Chickens behave the same way, they will scratch everything out and eat all root and fruit.
This had nothing to do with what was at the base of the plants. This was targetted root veg! They smell it a mile away
Thanks weedy. Totally relate to your experience with turkeys , I live in kyogle shire as well (Barkers vale) .Exact same experience , sweet potato, potato, turmeric ginger, banana bunches, the succulent base of the bananas & the plant falls over, seems worse in the winter months , but I might be wrong , they seem to invade en masse for a while then disappear, I noticed a while back when I heard wild dogs around the turkeys disappeared for a while. My approach has been to build cages over my veggie beds & make sure I get bags on the bananas early, grow more than I need & just remember the food you grow is not yours until you harvest it. Cheers & thanks
Oh my and they are protected! Your garden is still beautiful.
It's been a joy to sip tea in my garden and watch your videos...thanks to ya for the garden smile :)
That was delightful, Weedy! Thank you for sharing your world/story!!
Watching your videos is like reading a great bedtime story, creative relaxing and also very enjoyable. You sound like a good soul Mr. Weedy.
You would like episode 5 👍
A pair of bush turkeys just found my sweet potato patch, lol...devastated! Now the hard part... to find a couple of big teddies before they attack my veg
It sound like they are flying groundhogs, except worst. I’m glad you found a simple trick to stop them.
When can we see another of your masterpieces Siloe?
@@TheWeedyGarden I’m trying to get it finished for next week. I got COVID last week so it got more delayed.
@@suburbanhomestead righto. 👍💪🏻 Glad you are right to go again mate. Flying groundhogs lol!!! What’s ur next one about?
I have always had pest in my garden I remember thinking how lucky you are. they really created a big mess in your garden, hope the teddies continue to work, bush turkeys are beautiful birds. Thanks for the video.
Your videos are educational, entertaining, inspiring and sometimes hilarious. I love your narration style which I feel includes and appeals to the younger audience as well. Thank you! 😊
Glad you like them!
Oh no! I’m so very sad 😢 that happened to your garden. Thank you for sharing about the bears.
They are very clever too. The ,male maintains the nest and checks the temperature -if too hot he removes some compost and if not warm enough he starts scratching again . They also reuse the nests.
I don’t think they reuse it but rather come back to the same GPS coordinates due to the nests protective position ect each season. They need to rebuild it with fresh stuff to start the heat. The “old” nest, which at this point is delicious rich soil, does not contribute to this, therefore I’m going to steal some of the soil it has made for my garden in return for all the produce it’s offspring stole from me!! Fair trade I reckon. They male won’t care the soil is gone. It will just make a new the same spot anyway👍😁
The part of the story that I wanted hear was whether or not you cried when you came back and saw your destroyed crops. I think I would have.
No but I cursed a lot 🥹
You’re a fantastic storyteller, weedy!
Thankyou Pratik
I’m so sorry about your garden! 😢 That’s crazy how much damage they can do it two weeks! Hope you’re able to get it going again as soon as possible. Will pray for you 🙏 ❤️
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Always a gem!!! Great story telling!!! Loved the little tea time at the end!!
Weedy, always makes me smile when I see a new uipload!!! Yikes what a difference 3 weeks makes. I wonder if dolls would work? and they would not get rain soaked.... Love the song.... And absolutly love your respect for all of the creatures of mother earth.... Unfortunatly dosnt work for my dobermans, they just chew them.......
lol. dolls might work. scary dolls with hair and big eyes! 🤡🤖👹
@@TheWeedyGarden Funny, after I wrote that comment, I was kinda creeped out by the thought of all the scary dolls. very different version of TWG... maybe a halioween one.
Love how u include text messages/outside communication with industry pros and friends…
Great video Weedy. The brush turkeys are currently destroying my (urban) food forest. I'm interested to know how the teddies are serving you now? I tried to replicate your process and it worked for the first 2-3 days but gradually the brush turkeys are coming back.. almost oblivious to the spinning teddies. My neighbours seem more deterred!
As alway, I enjoy every episode you create. Very relaxing.
Great story!! A wonderful solution! Clever use of nature’s mechanisms…as always,lovely pictures too!
I wonder if teddy bears would keep squirrels out , great movie, Cheers 14:14
It's like cats near us,we put water bottles out to deter them,they see their reflection.
Who would think teddy's would help you,while also adding to your garden. Glad it worked out for you.
Fantastic Mr Weedy. That was great: not only the solution, but also learning about bush turkeys. It was the Australian Peter Rabbit story. Plant them a little feast in the bush regularly because it must be tough seeing such a delicious banquet guarded by teddy bears. Your soil looks great even if the tubers were missing.
Yeah. Great soil. They’ll move deeper into the bush.
They are amazing they don’t like full sun apparently they need the right temperature for their nest so they need a bit of shade every day they move heaps of stuff to their mound
yeah! HEAPS
I'm heading out to buy old teddies! Fantastic experiment! Awesome 👌 thanks guys!
Don’t buy them. Ask around and try to get them for free. I haven’t seen a turkey in five weeks now, but reading the comments, I have my doubts that it’s perminent.
i love your style brother. im addcited to watching how to grow food and your videos are right up there with my favorites. my food forest is coming along with alot of help from you. so thank you.
I'm so sorry that happened to you and thank you for your beautiful videos x x
This is such an amazing video. Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge
Old cd’s strung up the same way also work very well.
Yeah. I now have them hanging all around the garden fence. I don’t want to scare the small birds who eat the catterpillars though!
I just might try this for the army of squirrels that invade my garden eating my fruit and Oca! Pesky things! But I always ALWAYS enjoy every single video that you put up, always very informative and entertaining thanks Weedy 😁
My grandmother would get bags of human hair from the salon to spread around her garden and keep the squirrels away. You might try it and see if it works
How interesting! 🧸Might try that with the yellow footed scrub hens up here in Cairns…
Thanks for your videos loved teady bear song. Glad you're home and safe
Thanyou 🕉🙏🏻
Oh wow Weedy! I'm so sorry for all that devastation, I'm glad you were able to figure out a trick to keep them at bay, finger's crossed it continues to work my friend 🤞🏻
Four weeks soon. no sign of the BT’s 😃🐻 Teddys rule!
You are amazing man. I love the weedy gardener
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Oh David and Geoff, that’s hilarious and so wonderful that it WORKS, yeah. 💕💕💕
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Those are some cute teddy bears. I wonder if they would work on my slug problem. 🤣
Second person who said this. that is cute 😂😂
the scarebear, like a scarecrow but for turkeys, but scareturkey just doesnt sound right lol
We have some critters too! Ate so so much!!
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Great video mate 👏👏👏
Your teddy bear song is hilarious! I love the teddy bear picnic!
Yeah. A due celebration! 🐻
Ohhh my heart broke for you! All that food gone after all your work…… I didn’t realise bush turkeys did that much damage! Really enjoyed learning more about them, they’re incredible creatures!! What an amazing solution to keep them away, i really enjoyed this video & I did learn heaps, THANKYOU!! 🌻💐💝
I learnt heaps just doing this episode. The fact that a bush turkey chick does not have a parent to show it how to live proves to me that memory is not in the brain, but in every cell. So because the chick has the parents cells, it just recognizes everything and feels everything the parent does. Just like every other form of life. That was the most interesting lesson for me, and learning that the chick is born from a pile of fresh compost. What a fantastic entrance to a life!
@@TheWeedyGarden I reckon!!!! Amazing!!! 🌱💐💝
I love the teddy bear song!
And the teddy bear picnic at the end, what a great touch!
I’m new to your channel. Liking it! I put rubber snakes around to keep the birds from pulling at new sprouts. I guess turkey is big enough to try to catch a snake. Once I found a rubber snake in bits and pieces - guess the hawk was hungry- what a disappointment they had
lol
On America Halloween is a popular holiday. You can buy all manner of decorations. Motion activated monsters that dance or shriek. I have been waiting all year for a screamer to be buy to deter the greedy squirrels. Maybe that’s an option for you? We used to put out pinwheels but times have changed!
@@kurtcurtis2730 that woud work too 👍
You’ll have none to blame but yourself if you attract a kindergartner class to roost in your garden.
So good these videos!
Thank you 🙏
Love all esp. the mirror scene !
ThankssknahT 💚
Simply beautiful…
Happy it worked.
but not for long enough!
What a delightful story! 🧸❌🦃. I love it! Made me laugh! I am such a fan of your videos now…slowly making my way through them. I haven’t been able to find your movie, though. I’m in Canada, but it’s not on Amazon Prime. Still need to check Netflix.
Sorry we haven't had any trouble with bush turkeys in our garden. But we do have Larry the Lyrebird scratching leaf litter out on the paths. We love Larry visiting, so just means blowing the paths more regularly.
Larry has a purpose in life. Larry loves your respect 🤎
Greetings from NW Florida ! I have many challenges with my garden as well . From excessive rain this year 55 inches so far to blistering temps cooking my crops to insects and snakes. But in early spring its the deer coming in for the salad buffet. Me, i dont really like turkey but if if i had your problem i learn to love it for dinner! Cheers JB
In the 1930 depression in Australia many people did. I am trying another way with 🐻
If you can get large cat scat from a reserve or zoo, that seems to deter deer really well.
Fortunately we don't have the Turkeys, but the Wallys are a whole different matter, love young fruit tree shoots! Had to fence with chook wire and single strand to 1.8m
Courage mon ami. Best of luck with your deterrence program.
Soon we are week 4 no BT 💪🏻🐻 Teddies rule!
Yay your back 😊😊
Hope your trip was fabulous ❣️❣️
WOW soo much damage 🥺
Hey Mandy 🐻🤎
So lovely to see you had no intention of hurting the Bush turkeys Weedy...they’re only doing what comes naturally. Love you’re kindness towards all the other creatures who inhabit your garden too 🙏💗👨🌾
The Weedy Way 🤎🌏
OMG I had no idea that bush turkeys are so destructive to gardens - thank goodness the teddy bears are working!! We don't have bush turkeys in WA - but a big mob of roos comes to eat the lawns in our strata village every summer (luckily have managed to keep them outta my mini food forest n veggie patch by crowding the plants together and putting up a small fence) - if the area inside the fence is too cluttered they don't try to jump inside!! Need to really sharpen our wits to deal with the local wildlife!! 😄
Roos seem to only eat the grass in my garden. They used to eat the avo trees, but now they are tall enough to survive a roo nibble!
Loved the song mate! ❤️🤣
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You're very forgiving, I would be eating bush turkey often.
Not if you had to kill it and clean it. I would be keen to bet you 🙂🤔
Teddy’s for the win!!!! Ima try them for woodpeckers!!!
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OMG U NELLY MADE ME CRY WHEN U SAID U LIVE NEAR KYOGLE ,MATE THATS MY HOME TOWN ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I grew up there ,I owned a property at upper Eden Creek Next to the bridge I had 18acres on both sides of the road one had the Creek one had the river Its was a old DAIRY Unfortunately I had to sell my property I am on the sapphire coast now on 30 acres HARD to grow stuff here I am still dreaming of a Avocado orchard Were there is a wlll ❤We do hv bush turkys down the creek They are well behaved though ❤🎉😂
I am coming back to buy property there again one day ❤ LOVE Kyogle I worked for the National parks and wildlife in the boarder Ranges Was so 😎
I also worked and was friends with Greg Daley from Daley,S Nursery if u know them
@@shellsea9520 Sure I do 😊
PLEASE SAY HI ❤
Thankyou that was fabulous, so sorry they attacked your garden.
Your coffee plant maybe ok, they seem to be pretty resilient. I have small ones in a pot and a mouse got in and dug around the roots and stripped off all the leaves. I thought it would be dead for sure. But, about 3 months later, new leaves are finally coming back. Just put something around it to give it some protection and nurture it. Wait a couple of months it should come back 😊🥰 Good Luck 🌟🍀🌟
It has already started the journey back to earth and it’s brilliant composition is now being re composed as it decomposes. RIP Kenyan Mountain Coffee 🤎
@@TheWeedyGarden I'm sooo so sorry , that's a real bummer. Daley's fruit tree Nursery here in Victoria have them at a great price and they deliver , hope you can get some more!
Teddy won't last long exposing to the elements unless you make the furs waterproof!
I have exactly same problem in far North Queensland. They ate all my casaba and purple yum. 😭😭😭 I cut one side of car tyre and place on top of the soil and then put wire mesh. I can see they came to try to scratch it but can’t. I’m not sure about any chemical from car tyre get into the soil…. I shall see….
I wonder if it works to deter other animals as well… 🤔
Love the Teddy bear solution. Thank you. I wonder if you have a suggestion for deterring bandicoots from the vege garden?
Have you tried TEDDY BEARS?
@@TheWeedyGarden No. But worth a try.
Weedy, learned something new glad it worked. Would like an update video soon :) I have a question, we have small area with plants around the house and whenever I water the plants the isopods crawl all over the wall and sometimes they visit neighbors wall as well. I understand they are good for soil but I fell they exploded in population. How do I control them?
You don’t want to “control” them. Let them be, and don’t harm them. Isopods are generally harmless and feed on decaying plant material. They are important decomposers of organic matter in the soil ecosystem and help to improve soil nutrient content and quality.
Hilarious and educational. 👏👏👏
I need to manage Brush Turkeys in our garden in Brisbane as they have assimilated into the urban area bordering Toohey Forest.
If you give them a mound it'll attract them away from the garden. An ex-bathroom mirror or two around the place to trick the males into thinking they have competition. The males will chase the females away. Depending on placement you'll largely have the turkeys manage themselves. The other thing you could do is buy a roll of fencing wire (like chicken wire) and roll that out over your swales. Roll it up / flip it off when tending to the beds. Good luck!
The wire solution is a def no no!!! Why all the advice? 🤔 Teddies rule!!!
@@TheWeedyGarden I can't think of why the wire is no good as the turkeys just leave covered areas alone, and generally stick to the pile I leave them. If I've missed something, I'd be grateful if you'd share why so I can adjust my appoach.
My blurb was more me sharing my experience with how I live with them. Sorry if it came across as me advising.
I did like the rather playful teddy option👍🏻 and lastly, I love your work✌🏻
Nice to see you back. I can’t believe what those turkeys did! (I’m not a vegetarian, so I think I’d be eating turkey for the rest of the year!)I don’t know if you folks in Oz use scarecrows in gardens, but, here in the States, they’ve been used for generations. They’re essentially man-sized, man- shaped bundles of straw dressed in old men’s clothes, stuck up in gardens like you did with the teddys. Obviously to scare away crows, but I think it might work for turkeys, too, as well as some other critters. Pretty much the same idea. Oh, and don’t forget to put a hat on him, too.
Haven’t you seen Weedy the scarecrow yet?
@@TheWeedyGarden I guess I missed it. I’ll look for it. Wait…something is tickling my memory now, so I must have.
@@TheWeedyGarden I found him! He’s a handsome guy. Sorry I missed that.
@@kgs2280 👨🌾 lol 💪🏻
Hello Weedy
Are the teddies still keeping the turkeys out? As I was enjoying this video, I heard the loud thump of one on my roof, nothing unusual around here in SE Qld. Love your work! 🌸
You’ll find out if you keep watching the channel in order of upload date 😁💜
one of our resident bush turkey's is hell bent on destroying one of our gardens. Tried, mirrors, chicken wire, concrete pavers, motion sensitive water sprays, loud noise, nothing stops him, Time to bring out the teddy!🐨
The only thing about using Teddy bears is that they aren't going to last longer than 1 season, and that's a lot of waste that ends up in a landfill (and money spent on the teddy). Have you tried instead looking at what the Bush Turkeys like to eat? Then plant those for them somewhere else, to try to deflect them from your property? The bush turkeys aren't being malicious, they are just trying to survive themselves. They don't want to be around humans if they don't have to, they often push into human territory because we've destroyed their other habitat (and food).
I find that most of my pest problems can be solved by actually FEEDING the pest, but doing it in a way that encourages them to be elsewhere and not in my food forest. Deer are our biggest pest, and I plant Jerusalem artichokes and apples for them, then on "my side" of that, I plant thorny plants. They have food on "their side", so they don't tend to push into "my side". I have had almost no deer problems in 5 years since i started doing that.
Good tip but not really doable in my case.
So sorry about your beautiful garden Weedy 😞
Be careful of the mirrors, they state that is one reason Europe had bush fires during the recent high temperatures. A lot of gardens have decorative mirrors but the suns rays can hit them just so and perhaps start a fire.
a flat mirror does not concentrate light, so that it is impossible to start a fire with it.
That is impossible for a flat mirror to reflect more light than it recieves. In some cases the light might hit something else that might refract the light, like a broken coke bottle, but that could just as well happen in the bare sunlight.
I've used a stuffed rooster to deter crows on my balcony, I used to move it all the time to make sure the crows think it's alive. I think I'll try this strategy with the rats eating my backyard.
I never thought of a turkey as being a creature of destruction. 😵 It makes me want to learn more about the wild turkeys here in the USA. Where I live, the main one I hear about is Javelina (Have-a-leen-uh) pigs/hogs being really destructive.
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Hi Weedy, what software do you use to edit videos. I have a GoPro11 and planning to start a permaculture homestead in my village
In Nicaragua there are a lot of stray cats and they do something similar to plants sometimes. People here protect plants by putting a pile of heavy rocks around the base of the plant. Do you think that would help make it harder for the bush turkey to dig up the roots at the center?
It looks like the plants die because the turkey digs the center of the plant up. But with the center protected by rocks, maybe the turkey would just focus on the outer edges of the roots (which might help the plant survive bush turkey visits)
It would work I guess, but that’s a lot of rocks I’de need to move. I think wire netting is the solution…or a dog
@@TheWeedyGarden A dog sounds wonderful! Now that I think about it, it seems a little odd you do not have one yet!
@@JackPitmanNica Only because the house is a long way from the garden. We are going to build a house next to the garden in season two…then we will get our doggy 🤗
@@TheWeedyGarden Beautiful
Great vid. Thanks!!!! Any thoughts of how to get rid of bandicoots?
Run after them with a blow horn. other than that I don’t know 🤔
Welcome home!! You have been missed. I am so sorry about your garden but you have taken it in stride : )
Darling remedy
Might be an idea to get a guard dog mate, good company as well!
One day. Love a dog again!
Put thick guage wire mesh down and plant.
Done
Very delightful video Weedy but was heart-wrenching to see how ruthlessly the bush turkeys wrecked and ate your garden produce.. 😖😭😭 I hate these turkeys to the core and am currently having a ‘war’ with them in my own garden. The weird thing is they were never here in our area in previous years but only this year. 😮
I’m devastated though that the teddies didn’t ward them off completely and that they came back after 2 weeks, is that correct??! 😢😱😭 Did the mirror work though? I have heard that they also don’t like metallic or shiny paper so that’s something else you can try tying on your fence.
Teddies don`t work for more than 2 weeks. Mirrors DO NOT WORK AT ALL. Running and shout scares them until you leave the garden, scarecrow they laugh at every day (because it is very amusing naturally). The only thing that does work is putting a little piece of lead in their left ear, but I can`t and will not do that. A dog will work, so we are going to get a dog, but the first time the dog gets hit by the electric fence the dog will never go near the garden again...so I have no solution other than the obvious with the lead ball in the ear.
So sorry about the damage! Teddy bears worked...amazing! On another note, I have always wondered about what type of pants you wear? They look so comfortable! What is the name of this style or where do you purchase?
Yeah. I first discovered them 30 yrs ago in Thailand. Search “Thai Fisherman’s pants” online and you’ll find someone who sells them 👍
Weedy & Teddy, together 4eva.
Thanks Weedy, I wonder if they’d work on possums 🤔
Don’t know because I think they already met the el fence 🌞
thank you we all missed you
They are a little creepy/eerie hanging there like that! I can see why that would weird them out!
Weird them out 🤣🤣🤣
11:47 gave me a mini heart attack. Didn't expect to see anyone else in the video
Sorry to give you a fright! That was me, Mrs Weedy :)
lol. She gave me a fright too!!