Easy Cheap DIY GARDEN FENCING Installation [Rabbit Proof!]

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Today's video features an easy, cheap DIY garden fencing installation that's rabbit proof! This easy chicken wire fence provides garden rabbit control, as well as prevent rodents of all types from getting into your garden.
This is not only an easy garden fence DIY, but a cheap garden fence installation. I got the materials on clearance for less than $25!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Rabbits Ate My Harvest! Damage Assessment!
1:04 Dale Discovered The Culprits!
1:58 The Problems With My Existing Fence
3:20 Gaps In My Existing Welded Wire Fence
3:51 The Best Time To Purchase Poultry Netting Fence
4:33 Fencing A Garden With Chicken Wire And Welded Wire Fence
7:17 Garden Fencing DIY Instructions
11:11 Final Thoughts On Fencing A Garden
12:05 Adventures With Dale
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@TheMillennialGardener Жыл бұрын

If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach! Thanks for watching 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience: 0:00 Rabbits Ate My Harvest! Damage Assessment! 1:04 Dale Discovered The Culprits! 1:58 The Problems With My Existing Fence 3:20 Gaps In My Existing Welded Wire Fence 3:51 The Best Time To Purchase Poultry Netting Fence 4:33 Fencing A Garden With Chicken Wire And Welded Wire Fence 7:17 Garden Fencing DIY Instructions 11:11 Final Thoughts On Fencing A Garden 12:05 Adventures With Dale

@truthfrees337 Жыл бұрын

Squishy bunnies

@napaea9460 2 жыл бұрын

Lol I’m watching this video to prevent my pet rabbit from escaping my yard! So exact opposite haha

@RHeath-fv2zg Күн бұрын

Thank you for being so thorough! Happy gardening & thank you too to Dale the dog! 🐶

@rifrafultrifrafult6243 2 жыл бұрын

I did the same years ago when I installed my 8 ft tall fence here in MD, but I buried the chicken wire 6 inches below ground level to prevent digging critters like rabbits and ground hogs.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think rabbits will dig for food. Other animals, I can't say that about, but rabbits are notoriously lazy.

@ritcheymt 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener My Rex rabbits dig for food all the time. They love the roots of almost all the plants in my back yard. They have also dug beneath fencing to leave one area in order to access better forage in another area.

@AnOKgardener Жыл бұрын

Incredibly beautiful garden. Well done

@sylvia10101 2 жыл бұрын

Good job! Dale is the cutest!! 😊 Thank you.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

He is...and he knows it! Thank you for watching!

@korinnemcchesney4545 3 ай бұрын

I love your videos and enjoy seeing Dale at the end. I’ve watched you for a couple of years now and learned so much. You just saved my garden with this video. I’ve been trying and trying to come up with an affordable way to fence in my garden that I can do myself. I have wild life and they all demolish my hard work. Also thanks for the Amazon deal alerts!! Keep up the amazing work!

@SuperMan-xy8ui 2 жыл бұрын

Another well done video! Thanks!

@jessl7728 22 күн бұрын

Great tips. Thanks for sharing. Was happy to stumbled upon this video since we’ve had a such a huge problem with rabbits ravaging everything in our yard.

@mikedan297 2 жыл бұрын

I love the cute Peter Rabbit.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

That's actually a real photo of me holding a rabbit from last year. We had a nest in our yard, and Dale found it. They weren't quite mobile enough on their own, and I was able to rescue a rabbit from Dale. They were disoriented, so I was able to catch them. I relocated 2 to safety.

@izoomerizoomer9410 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for a great instruction!

@backyardfarmingwithashley 2 жыл бұрын

Dale is the best! 😁

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

If only he could patrol 24 hours a day 🤔

@NewMindGarden 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful 🌷

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Angie-ci1lp Ай бұрын

Awesome idea I’m so doing this👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@butterflyj685 2 жыл бұрын

Because critters can dig, you could still have gaps closer to the ground. You may also want to use long landscaping pins or cut pieces of clothes hangers to help pull and secure the poultry netting & exsiting fencing closer to the ground.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Some dig, but rabbits are notoriously lazy. If all I have are bunny problems, this should do the trick. If other mammals decide to want to get in, I may have problems on my hands again.

@desertedenblooms Жыл бұрын

FYI....I have 4 rescue bunnies. Bunnies, Rabbits, are smart, very smart ( they have redesigned their habitat several times, Im running out of ideas. Amoung the " redesign" is biting through cabal wire, which was recently fixed by my techy son. Bunnies bit through that fence like BUTTAR! I hope it doesnt happen to you, but just know they loveeeeeeeeee to dig and infact that is how they live in the wild, not inside a beatrice potter tree trunk but under the ground in what are called Warrens, several feet below where they keep warm or cool depending on the season....but I love what you did here! Be Blessed!

@fizzypop1858 2 жыл бұрын

Ugh, naughty bunnies! They're so dang cute, but what a pest! Glad you've got a good solution to keep them out. I had property once that was full of gophers. That was a nightmare I won't get into. Glad we moved from that property, actually. The ground was about to cave in! LOL Anyway, thanks for sharing your immediate solution and I'm super excited to watch how you do the screening in process and see how well that works for keeping bugs out. Oh, and Dale is such a fun part of your channel. :)

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Gophers sound like a nightmare. It's almost impossible to defend the underground, so I don't know what you can do aside from those underground impaling traps to thin the population. I'm hoping the idea I have in my mind with screens and furring strips works out. I'm going to have to build a completely new gate. Dale will always be a part of the channel. I need someone good looking to be the face of it 😂

@gregorycalzada5264 2 жыл бұрын

STRONG WORK 😎😎😎

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@Steve-ps6qw Жыл бұрын

Awesome dog and really great idea on the screen. I will have to check that out as pests are out of control.

@annakramar5088 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tips. No "Bunnies" were hurt in the making of this YT Garden segment....🤣🤣🤣

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Yet. I can't promise Dale won't catch one 😂

@SpiritOfTheHeretic 2 жыл бұрын

I've been giving my rabbits my excess Coyote Tomatoes daily and it keeps them satisfied enough to not hop into my raised beds. Already started a bin of spinach to give them in the winter, too. Last year they ate all of my winter kohlrabi.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Yikes. I can't leave fruit out, or they'll become breeding grounds for flies and other insects, unfortunately. Any open fruit becomes a breeding location for SWD 😦

@davemeeks8109 2 жыл бұрын

I've garden for a lifetime without ever seeing a rabbit in the garden even with garden cameras in all directions. Most garden seasons we observe dozens and dozens of rabbits in the side and front yard but never in the garden. We have every other species of wildlife in the garden that doom every season but not the rabbits. Oddly they keep the chickens company and eat clover and other weeds in the lawn.

@kevlar1482 2 жыл бұрын

I've been giving my cats my rabbits. Works like a charm.

@dubistverrueckt 2 жыл бұрын

@@kevlar1482 inhuman monster, destroyer of native wildlife.

@AnyKeyLady 2 жыл бұрын

Squishy cute rabbits! Dale: Yes it's wabbit season now! I am just practising with the ball! lol

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Bunnies are like squeaky toys 🐇 😂

@napaea9460 2 жыл бұрын

That’s sad 😢 rabbits are super cute

@dubistverrueckt 2 жыл бұрын

@@napaea9460 They are, and they are also native wildlife that's in serious decline because of assholes like the channel owner and the commenters.

@hdwoodshop 2 жыл бұрын

DALE IS A RIOT! I’m not much of a dog person but I love this segment! Bravo!

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

He is just the best. We are so blessed to have him. Never has anything improved our lives so much!

@GamerDad1987 2 жыл бұрын

Rabbits have been the bane of my gardening experience for years. I did raised beds with 2ft high fences. They didn't eat my crops, but mom rabbits would jump the fence to make nests and have babies. They would dig a nest under my crops and chew through all my drip lines causing all sorts of problems.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

You may want to go higher, like 4 feet. I haven't had a problem since I added the chicken wire along the base of the fence, so between the 4 ft taller fence and the 18" chicken wire blocking their ability to squeeze through, it's been successful so far.

@valerie362 2 жыл бұрын

I'm jealous of the clearance! I made one around our rows for our puppy, just connected the chicken wire to the privacy fence. It worked for squirrels but turtles went under the wood privacy fence ugh! I am going to look for some on sale now though and see if I can fix the holes on the wood size. I can't wait to see how the screen works out! I've gotten the two sprays you said for caterpillars but we've been having torrential rains since Monday. It's all because the world revolves around me and we started putting up Halloween outside 😂

@kimmcamp 2 жыл бұрын

Use Hardware cloth under the bottom. I do that with all my raised beds and in my greenhouse. I use 1/4" size holes.

@emptynestgardens9057 2 жыл бұрын

I just enclosed new trees today with chicken wire to protect from those lil squishies. Use landscape staples to push bottom of fence tight to the ground every 2ft is what I do.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

That's a pretty good idea. I have half a box of those.

@emptynestgardens9057 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener Can't take full credit that was my husbands idea and worked like a charm. 😁👍🏻 If the fencing is tight to the ground they won't bother digging but if they see an easy dig opportunity with fencing moveable and just resting on the surface they are very good diggers 😳😬

@fionag8869 2 жыл бұрын

Omg...i have squirrel s, chipmunks, rabbits, possum and groundhogs, my garden gets it every yr.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a good excuse to build some fencing over the winter 😀

@thisandthat7927 Жыл бұрын

Damn squishy bunnies lol!!!

@farmerbob4554 2 жыл бұрын

Nice work on the rabbit fencing. The winter project sounds great. Can’t wait for that one! I have to put up with rabbits as well as gophers, ground and tree squirrels, fruit rats and the occasional deer. Coyotes and the neighborhood cats help somewhat but it’s a constant battle.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Is there a lot of forest where you grow? In my mind, I envision where you live to be pretty arid with not a lot of trees. If you have that many pests of that type, it would have to be fairly wooded, right?

@farmerbob4554 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener Not much in the way of forests MG but a few wood lots of native oaks and walnut as well as invasive trees, mostly eucalyptus. The majority of the land is semi-arid scrub canyons with seasonal grass cover and some tree-lined riparian zones with more palm and sycamore.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

That’s kind of what I imagined, sort of like West Texas or the less arid regions of Arizona (like Tucson). I am surprised there is that much wildlife given the lack of forest cover. But I know coyotes are even problematic in Los Angeles, so 🤷‍♂️

@farmerbob4554 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener There are a pair of coyotes that make just about a daily journey about daybreak from their den in a thicket of pepper trees up the canyon that makes up the north end of our property. I’ve named them “Larry” and “Reatha”. They return just after dusk after, I surmise, hunting along the way. There’s a large area of undeveloped land that’s riddled with gopher and ground squirrel burrows that probably provides them with ample rodent kill opportunities. In my opinion they are part of the natural ecosystem and we’ve learned to live with them. Unfortunately house cats and small dogs are coyote menu items as well and several have gone missing in our neighborhood.

@emptynestgardens9057 2 жыл бұрын

🤣"these squishy bunnies"🤣. Oh I so can relate! RIP Burning bush, RIP Dahlias, RIP Petunias etc etc etc

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

They even eat that stuff? Man, those little stinkers 😠

@emptynestgardens9057 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener Absolutely!!! Right down to the ground. I was really looking forward to my Bridal Wreath Spirea this year but they had other plans for me. They are cute but so destructive!

@CaroleMcDonnell 2 жыл бұрын

The cabbage i overwintered last year were nibbled away by bunnies, woodchucks, raccoons, and squirrels and every possible cute critter. The woodchucks ate up all my corn. They would walk up to my raised bed and look at the veggies as if they were walking through the grocery aisle. The finches took all my sunflower seeds. I finally had to give up. They don't seem to bother my tomatoes and peppers. Will see what they do to my figs. Good luck with your garden.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

That's an incredible amount of wildlife. Do you have a fence? It sounds like you're in dire need of one.

@bbtruth2161 2 жыл бұрын

Woodchucks are the worst!

@GoodTimesHomestead 2 жыл бұрын

And now you are Mr. McGregor. 😊

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

He was the good guy in the story. Poor guy just wanted a garden! 😂

@CrystalVan21 5 ай бұрын

Grinder tool can be used to cut fence in a jiffy.

@sequoyahtucker4719 2 жыл бұрын

I just had to do this to my garden about a month ago because of rabbits. I used the same fencing material (also on sale because I love a bargain) except I folded it in half and laid half of it on the ground and the other half secured to the existing fence so nothing could dig under the fence.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of folks say to bury it on an angle, because they can't understand how to dig underneath something that is not straight down.

@pamelamercer1124 2 жыл бұрын

At least you don't have woodchucks! We had to fence up and 1.5 feet down in to the ground. Have-a-heart traps were busy for a few years.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure they're out there, somewhere. Luckily, the perimeter fence keeps larger animals out.

@bbtruth2161 2 жыл бұрын

Yup

@nmnate 2 жыл бұрын

The ends of the chicken wire are just folded in, you can just unbend them so that the edges are straight again. Having a partner and a pair of tin snips really helps again.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

The problem is once they get bent like that, you can't unbend them straight and true anymore. It'll create a pretty nasty edge to get caught on. It's easier to just cut off about 12 inches and have a clean line, in my opinion. Getting caught on fence is no fun.

@nmnate 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener Oh, yep. Definitely easier to just cut it off. I just wanted to point out that you don't have to. You can unbend it fairly easily with a pair of pliers or by hand with some leather gloves. Pulling tension on it helps quite a bit. I actually ripped a couple pair of pants this summer getting them caught on wire fencing (or on T posts that I had cut short). No fun indeed.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

@@nmnate my goal is eventually to screen the exterior. I'm going to have to figure out if the chicken wire has to come out or can stay there. It may be too bulky to press screen against the posts.

@susankrzeszewski8667 2 жыл бұрын

I planted carnations in double rows around the green beans. I never got a carnation, but I got my green beans.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting that they like carnations. Distraction cropping can be very effective!

@Nuttyirishman85 Ай бұрын

The bunnies in my garden will stand next to my BB target, then walk by me towards my strawberries. One of these days I might miss.

@alexzheng9841 Жыл бұрын

Have you thought about adding these wire mesh to your outer fence (the fence around your back yard) instead?

@BlackJesus8463 2 жыл бұрын

Glad I don't have rabbit problems! Hornworms eat like rabbits though. :(

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

That just means the rabbits haven't found you, yet! They can show up at any time, unfortunately. Once they decide they like what your yard has to offer, they're hard to get rid of. Hopefully, this will keep them out for good.

@dylbrody9666 Жыл бұрын

Rabbits: cute and evil creatures. I have been fighting them for years and it's getting expensive. Even with a terrier and a coonhound they still come in my yard. I'm in the process of putting a "rabbit fence" around my vegetable garden now. We'll see who wins.😂

@WYLDXHORSE23 2 ай бұрын

You were right the first time rabbits are rodents as are beavers, rats, squirrels, hamsters. Rodents refers to the front four incisors not stopping growing unless they chew or the teeth are cut. Also nice vid thank you lol

@nightstringers Жыл бұрын

A lot of the zip ties I have use outside end up breaking .They do sell metal ones . on Amazon . A little over $9.00 for 100 of them .

@nmnate 2 жыл бұрын

We have to cage basically anything that the rabbits like to eat or like to see if it's edible when food sources are slim (fall through spring). Apple trees are especially tasty (they'll girdle the trees at the base if given a chance). Usually a cage up to 18" is adequate for having the cage tight to a plant but you do have to go a bit taller (28-30") if they can hop over it. If you're enclosing an area, make sure they can't fit underneath a gate or can't burrow underneath a barrier. Once they know food is in an area they will come back repeatedly. Having a barrier they can't see through might help a bit. I had a baby rabbit get into an enclosed garden bed that was like yours (4"x2" wire up to 30" with a lining of chicken wire at the bottom). I still can't figure out how it got in, it was so young when I caught it (quite clumsy still). I think by the time they're big enough to leave a nest or burrow their heads are probably just too big to fit though the chicken wire. If you're curious, rabbits are lagomorphs. I used to lump them in with rodents, but I don't any more. Rodents are way harder to control, they climb really well and small mice (i.e. deer mice) go right through chicken wire.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Yea, I learned about the lagomorph family. Rabbits were officially classified as rodents for a very long time, but they were eventually reclassified due to their teeth. They have that ability to turn their bodies into pudding, similar to a rat, though. They can squeeze through holes a tiny fraction of their own size. How large do the tree calipers have to be before they become undesirable and you can un-cage them?

@nmnate 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener I'd bet it might have to do with how thick the bark becomes. I'll probably reassess when my trees are at least 6" diameter at the base. I've had numerous branches that are ~2' off the ground get tipped or completely removed by rabbits (apples, plums, apricots and jujubes in my yard), so sometimes protecting the trunks won't eliminate everything when you're trying for fairly low open center tree shapes. I'm learning to live with rabbits in my yard, excluding them where I can. When food gets scarce they seem to do the most damage. I'll regularly get a couple rabbit litters in the yard per year (3-4 bunnies usually) and they don't seem to do too much damage then as there's plenty of grasses or other native plants to munch on.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

@@nmnate how large is your plot? It seems to me you have some significant acreage.

@nmnate 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener We're on 1/3 acre. Not huge but big enough for now :)

@TheNCGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain. I had a cat problem in my raised beds and put up the 2x4 fence. Later the rabbits moved in and one was able to get inside the raised beds. Later I would go in one end of the garden to harvest the black crowder peas and he would rum out the other end then run around to the other end where I started and make a circle! I never could run him out, but I could not use my min-pin dog or I would still be chasing her! Squirrels are my enemy. I trapped and relocated 18 in about a 2 week period. I put up a trail cam to video the squirrel captures and baited the traps with peanut butter and found a black bear and a coyote has been in my back yard. The bear loved the peanut butter, he licked the traps clean!

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I had a neighbor's cat using my raised beds as their litter box before I got my perimeter fence around my yard. That quickly put an end to that problem, thankfully. It's tough to get rabbits to leaves once they're "caged in." You have to set some sort of trap. I'm fortunate I don't have a squirrel problem. At least yet. There aren't many around here; probably because there aren't any deciduous oak trees here. It is mostly redbay, live oak and magnolia, here, which are all evergreen and don't drop any nuts for them to forage. However, I still occasionally see one or two here or there. It isn't like where I lived in NJ, where they outnumbered people.

@TheNCGardener 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener On a good note, I had lots of free fertilizer from the rabbit poop and I didn't have to harvest any low tomatoes!

@anndebaldo7381 2 жыл бұрын

Just plant some sacrificial plants that bunnies love outside of your garden! Make it easy for them and satisfied to stay away from our garden! It's a whole lot cheaper!

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I'm honestly not sure where I would even do that. Maybe underneath my fruit trees? I've grown distraction crops for insects before outside of my garden. Rabbits are pretty easy to defend against, though. A simple fence with small holes should be sufficient.

@johnmcook1 2 жыл бұрын

@10:38 that is how they got in they did not squeeze in between the fence. They went under the huge gap you left lol.

@SiriusScientist 2 жыл бұрын

This is definitely going to be an issue for us this year. We have conservation land behind our property and woods, so we get all kinds of critters. Our garden isn’t in its final location this season, due to having to wait for another project to be completed to move and expand it, but I’m hoping to build something like this once it’s in. I need to find your install video to see more about the post anchors (I want to build a small firewood storage area myself this fall). The only animals Tonks doesn’t tolerate at all are chipmunks-she hates them. All fall though, during our mornings in the yard she’d wag her tail at the bunnies every morning, then go about sniffing and inspecting.

@dubistverrueckt 2 жыл бұрын

If you are in Boston and living next to conservation land, those "bunnies" could be New England Cottontails an extremely endangered species on the brink of extinction. Please tolerate them.

@SiriusScientist 2 жыл бұрын

@@dubistverrueckt we haven’t had any problems with them at all. They are moderately interested when our dog comes out in the morning (who just wags her tail at them), but the timberline is close there and they either continue doing whatever they are doing, or slowly hop back to the woods. Squirrels and deer are bigger issues for us, though even that is mostly curiosity (the squirrels play with anything we put outside for the first few days). We woke up several times this winter to deer eating the evergreens in our front yard).

@bunnyfromtheblock9987 Жыл бұрын

Bunnies aren’t rodents.

@makulewahine 2 жыл бұрын

I had rabbits nesting in my garden this year. At first I thought they were rats! I am unable to fence as well as you have so have resorted to using tulle over the most vulnerable. Seems to be an adequate solution for me. What I really need is a dog! Lol.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I asked Dale if he wanted to sleep outside from here on out, but he quickly declined. He prefers one of his 3 beds inside, unfortunately for my garden! Can you put up T-posts and chicken wire at the very least? You don't have to embed 4x4's like I have done.

@makulewahine 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener unfortunately it's the makeshift gates and next door fencing which are the culprits. They are gone for now but next year I'll see if I can do better. Some years are worse than others. Wish we had more coyotes.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

@@makulewahine sounds like a good winter project to me! That's the perfect time to dig holes and pound mallets - no sweat! Literally.

@moochythecat3435 Жыл бұрын

Chipmunks stripped all my tomatoes off the vines... Thanks for the good plan...

@johnfrancis6940 2 жыл бұрын

We just had this happen for the first time this year - after 6 years of gardening, we never had issues with our fall garden. As of last night, it's all gone - 8 4x8 beds, gone... Peas, beans, carrots, kohlrabi, spinach, parsnips, cabbage, sugar beets... all gone. The green beans looked like they were just yanked out, I'm thinking that it was deer that did that. I've just started seeing rabbits, and we have a load of squirrels. I'm thinking that with the Covid gardens that went in this past year, the local critters have gotten a taste for the good stuff and seek it out first. None of the local foods like acorns, broad leaf plantain, dandelions have been touched... I'm gonna have to get creative because most of my beds are on the side of the house. (Portersneck area, New Hanover Co.)

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

2-3 rabbits can make short work of an entire garden nearly overnight. It's a total feast-or-famine feeding frenzy. Once they find your yard and determine it as a food source, they'll keep coming back indefinitely. This is why fencing is so important. Rabbits have been coming back to my yard for 3 years straight. Even though they don't have access to my garden anymore, they keep crawling under my main perimeter fence trying to search for food. The good news is, they're incredibly lazy and simple barriers will keep them out as long as they can't squeeze their bodies through any gaps.

@tkvpham 2 жыл бұрын

You got that, we got evil squirrels… so many of them… digging, eating and destroying the fruits and veggies we grow. And how long is your string beans? Ours got over a foot long and going near 2ft that I ended up calling if noodle beans 😆

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I do occasionally see a squirrel here or there, but if a squirrel is on the fence, Dale chases them away like a missile. Luckily, squirrels aren't interested in anything in my yard (yet). Rabbits are more challenging, because they come out at night when Dale is comfortably curled up on his bed inside. Right now, the plants are probably a foot tall. There are no beans on them just yet, but they're beginning to flower a lot.

@tkvpham 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener nice… we grow a lot of okra right now. 😊

@slyviewer99 2 жыл бұрын

Nice Video! Do you know if this chicken wire works to keep out cats too? I know cats climb, but i don't know if they will climb on chicken wire. thanks.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

They absolutely cannot squeeze through it. Climbing, I’m sure they could get over it. You would have to build an outward facing overhang, sort of like a soffit, to block them from climbing. It would be really comfortable, though. I would think they wouldn’t enjoy it, but it is technically feasible.

@slyviewer99 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener thanks

@hgo772 10 ай бұрын

i wish i had this problem in my life

@flubberghosted2472 Жыл бұрын

Shut the squishy bunnies down LOL

@TheMillennialGardener Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@megaladog4490 2 жыл бұрын

I have a Wolfhound that LOVES chasing the bunnies. Unfortunately, he spends more time as a couch potato than as a fierce hunter.

@Shelby2880 2 жыл бұрын

As to your plan for the mesh, won’t it keep pollinators out, too? What is your solution for leaf-footed bugs? They are horrid!

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think so. Most annual vegetables don't actually require pollinators, but for the handful that do, what I've noticed is that bees fly higher than pests. Bees will easily fly 8 feet to get over a screen, but the leaf footed bugs, leaf hoppers, stink bugs, etc. will have a big challenge to get in. The dragonflies and lizards will also have no trouble flying over and scaling the walls to get in.

@Shelby2880 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener Thanks for your quick response. I was thinking you meant a cage with the mesh over the top. Love your organza bag idea. Hoping to keep mockingbirds at bay with them. I severely pruned my Home Depot Brown Turkey fig as per your advice and repotted it in one of your large pots. I root pruned it, and it is really coming out and already has lots of figs. I recommend your channel to all my gardening groups. I want to add some of your recommended fig varieties next year. Thanks for your excellent info and presentation!

@kamthornhill1109 Жыл бұрын

How do you keep them from digging underneath your fences

@TheMillennialGardener Жыл бұрын

The fence is buried a couple inches as shown in the video. Rabbits are very lazy and won't dig much. They become easily frustrated and leave.

@briancrispano828 2 жыл бұрын

What are those tall things next to the sweet potato bed ??

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I think you're looking at my Lacinato kale. The lower leaves have been stripped due to peak summer caterpillar damage, but the tops are setting nice new leaves.

@briancrispano828 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener Wow that’s the tallest I’ve ever seen

@heatherrylee4578 Жыл бұрын

Is that weed barrier on the ground,or plastic?

@TheMillennialGardener Жыл бұрын

It is weed barrier. The two barriers I use are linked in my Amazon Storefront in the video description under Garden Accessories.

@vikingrobot4179 2 жыл бұрын

You can catch bunnies outside the fence with a have a heart trap or two set up with bait. Also if you like mutton like I do bunnies are a great source of free protein. I Like to call them MRE’s …meals ready to eat. If you catch one and aren’t ready to eat it just release it into a small pen and feed it until you’re ready to use it for dinner.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I tried catching the bunnies for over a month with a trap. I tried peanut butter. I tried carrots. I tried citrus wedges. They never went inside the trap, once. The only person that ever caught them was Dale 😂 He caught them and I was able to...remove them from his grasp and safely relocate them. Still, I expect them to return again this year. I've added considerable fencing since, so I doubt they'll get into the garden, now.

@vikingrobot4179 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener I have a trap that I modified the bottom to sit in top of naturally growing veggies in the garden. Cut a hole in bottom of trap where bait goes and leafy stuff sticking up inside trap. Can also cover the trap with hay or tall grass clippings to make it look more natural. Can hold the trap down with tent pegs.

@johnwood702 2 жыл бұрын

Because rabbits burrow you should come out about a foot on the horizontal to stop digging under. I have rabbit digging under concrete floor in farm shed but this year as soon as I saw a rabbit I put bait at the entry of hole stopped it before breeding.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I know rabbits will dig to create a breeding den, but they're notoriously lazy when it comes to food. I really don't think they'll dig under the garden for food purposes. They'll just go somewhere else.

@johnwood702 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener The info i gave came from Australian Ag Dept. Maybe we have a different breed of rabbits 😂😂😂😂😂

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

These bunnies are pretty lazy. Hopefully, this will do the trick 😬

@Samantha.T.2022 Жыл бұрын

Is it true most small mammals can chew through the chicken wire?

@TheMillennialGardener Жыл бұрын

"Feasible" or "probable?" You can chew through chicken wire if you had to. Why would you? The fact that you'll never see it shows how likely it is.

@JeannetteShoreland 2 жыл бұрын

What....is this another pandemic! I am in the process of building raised garden beds because of my yard nemesis; VOLES. My yard is so riddled with their tunnels that it feels like walking over a sponge. Surely we gardeners are smart enough to outwit these furry little bundles of trouble,,,,,,,,,,,uuum, maybe.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

That's terrible. There has to be some type of way to get rid of them. They are an absolutely nightmare.

@jamesbarron1202 2 жыл бұрын

I lost my entire garden to the deer last week. They jumped the fence into my yard. We have too many deer here in Texas. I see them every morning since the nights have been dropping into the 70s now.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

OH NO! That's a total nightmare. Is there a way you can build a more convincing fest? I lived in PA for years, and they have more deer than any other state, so I know the headache. Where I grew up in NJ, they were ruthless.

@jamesbarron1202 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener that’s the 1st time they’ve ever jumped my fence to eat my garden. My yellow lab of 13 years kept them away I guess before she got cancer in her head and I had to put her out of her misery. I had the vet in inject her so she would go to sleep without pain. She was in constant pain and couldn’t hardly walk. Cancer sucks. Lost my favorite uncle to brain cancer.

@steveviau7159 2 жыл бұрын

Use monofilament fishing line around the garden

@steveviau7159 2 жыл бұрын

Use a fence within a fence they won’t jump if they don’t have a safe place to land

@jeannerichmond687 Жыл бұрын

Don't rabbits burrough under up to 10 ft or so?

@goo757 2 жыл бұрын

ma get the shotgun. 🔫 its rabbit season

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I have something better than a shotgun - I have a Dale 😂

@craiganderson6841 Жыл бұрын

Bunnies are killing my garden. My dogs hafte them and chase them all over the neighborhood. But then the neighbors get irrrate. People who do not garden do not see bunnies as a nuisance, Oh well ha ha.

@TheMillennialGardener Жыл бұрын

One rabbit can eat an entire bed of sweet potato vines overnight. Ask me how I know! The extra layer of chicken wire has fixed the problem, so far.

@igorkurovets1211 3 күн бұрын

Plastic zip ties aren't the best choice because they will disintegrate in the sun if you live in vey sunny areas.

@melissamoscamelissamosca2784 2 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing how quickly they can decimate a garden. Just don’t fence them in!

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

That’s the tricky part. There are so many places to hide this time of year. My garden is like a rainforest 😂

@Shauma_llama 2 жыл бұрын

Some rabbit just did the same thing to my nice basil plants. 😡

@staceyadams2272 2 жыл бұрын

Mice get a cat. A good one will take care of the bunnies too.

@michaeldenzer6024 Ай бұрын

I have a duck problem

@lilylily9012 Жыл бұрын

My dog keeps the mammals off my yard, I now need to keep my dog off my garden.

@TheMillennialGardener Жыл бұрын

Most pests come out at night when dogs are inside sound asleep. The nocturnal mammals are the worst.

@albertomendez6715 2 жыл бұрын

Good protein source accompany with those vegetables! You have a complete meal! 😂😂😂

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Free range, grass fed.

@bkershaccount 2 жыл бұрын

wont they just dig under it?

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

Rabbits are notoriously lazy. I don’t expect them to work that hard.

@rachealpenaloza1855 10 ай бұрын

With screen the rodents will chew through seriously

@TheMillennialGardener 10 ай бұрын

It's metal lined with plastic. Highly, highly doubtful. In 5 years, nothing has come anywhere close to getting through.

@danwilliams4089 2 ай бұрын

I just paid $25 for 1

@JustMe-gx4xt Жыл бұрын

zip ties fall apart from UV damage.

@TheMillennialGardener Жыл бұрын

They will last years. If they eventually degrade, they cost pennies and seconds to replace.

@JustMe-gx4xt Жыл бұрын

@@TheMillennialGardener In California heat and Texas heat, up to 1 summer at best. Speaking from experience.

@carlstrange100 2 жыл бұрын

Why don't you just lay some carrots outside. Bunny's love carrots right? 🥕

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

I can honestly say I think that's a Looney Tunes myth 😂 I'm sure they'd eat carrots if need be, but they seem to like tender greens more. At least in my poor garden.

@nordicpink 2 жыл бұрын

It’s totally disheartening when Peter rabbit does that. He did it to me one year and I haven’t planted since. I will this year at my new home though.

@TheMillennialGardener 2 жыл бұрын

One rabbit can wipe out an entire raised bed overnight! They're brutal. I had a couple babies chew up my sweet potato vines overnight once. Thankfully, they went for the sweet potatoes, since they can recover so fast. If they get into other crops, it can end the season 😢