It’s warming up, we’re planting seedlings and plants outdoors, and hoping that weather and pests don’t damage them before they have a chance to produce. Hope isn’t enough though, and taking precautions to support and protect your garden will help ensure a fruitful harvest. Today we’re going to have a chat about ways that I protect and support crops in the allotment garden, and I’ll be introducing you to the netting, cages, and frames that I use.

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🌿 Visit my pal Erin’s channel, The Impatient Gardener to see her fenced-in vegetable garden. It’s a great way to keep deer out of your garden: https://youtu.be/JByIYKMG73c

🌿See my previous video on garden netting: https://youtu.be/hFD1zugWKhw

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Protecting and Supporting Crops in the Vegetable Garden

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  • growherbalife

    I sowed Fenugreek and the deer love this plant and I protect these with a white stripe, that I place direct in the plantbed and so far my small seedlings are ok. I have no netting or fences around them, just the white stripes. Last year the deer eat almost the whole plantbed over one night. And after I put the white stripes in the deer didn't touch it. I dont know why it worked but I'm not taking any chances this year. Great video as always.

  • Calle U

    Lovely Video,like always! One thing in own case hehe , i MISS you having polished nails. I dont know why i even paid attention to that but it always had such a feminim touch even in the garden where your hands gets dirty. 😀

  • DUNCAN ROBINSON

    I have to net my brassicas every year now; up until about 12 years ago we had no problems with pigeons on the allotments but suddenley they seemed to move into our allotments. It also helps as a double protection against cabbage white butterlies also – I use the finer netting. You used to be able to tip a small amount if derris dust around the base of where the brassica seedling goes into the ground to prevent cabbage root fly, but derris is no longer available, even though I think it was organic – it was because of licensing issues with the EU is was stopped I heard. I don't get any problems with birds taking soft or top fruit – with the exception of cherries – so I either have to net an outdoor tree or grow a cherry tree with a dwarfing rootstock inside a polytunnel. This is a nice video of your allotment in the nice weather!

  • Amy Sternheim

    I don't have a deer problem, but I do have rabbits in the area. A low fence seems to do the job. Rabbits don't seem to like onions, so most of them aren't fenced. The few that are just makes it easier to square off the garden. I've been told deer don't like the smell of blood and a little bloodmeal and water often fools them into believing there's a carcass and deer supposedly avoid the area.

  • UVPCaro

    I'm amazed to see that you're still growing Fat Baby achocha – mine self seed all over the plot every year. This year I'm pulling them out and growing the larger achocha, Giant Bolivian.

  • Bristol Veggie Beds

    I have deer, rabbits, foxes rodents and birds! That all want to eat my crops! I've had to use wire fence around the edge of my whole plot!

  • karen ginther

    My garden here in Southern Alberta, Canada is struggling against wind, heat, and thunderstorms. My marigolds ( which still have blooms and will come back ) are just shredded from the wind and a hail storm. And it's so windy I think I may have lost some seeds cause I don't have as much veggies popping up as I should.
    I also had a cat using my garden as a litter box. I cleaned it up and he hasn't come back. And the ants have been bad this year, they might have eaten my seeds, idk.

  • S M

    Dear Tanya… please help 🙁 I have wooly aphids infestation on my apple tree and they're now spreading on to my expensive rose plants + front and back garden plants. I keep removing the aphid infested tender leaves but they keep coming back and I find more white wooly aphids on the branches and pruned wounds from last year 🙁

    Have used neem oil, soap & water solution spray /hydrogen peroxide + water solution spray/ Provanto ultimate bug killer / garlic, cayenne and black pepper, soap and oil solution spray/ tied sticky tape on apple stem to avoid ants crawling up and down the tree/ to deter ants sprinkled cayenne and black pepper powder, salt, boric powder at the base of the plant/left boric powder and sugar solution in a tub to kill the ants… the ants are not climbing the tree anymore but wooly aphids are multiplying and I can't seem to control them from spreading. Kindly help me 🙁