Quick Easy Way to Protect Garden Bed From Animals Digging Up Plants

In this video, I show you a quick and easy way to protect your plants and stop animals from digging in your garden beds.

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Self Sufficient Me is based on our small 3-acre property/homestead in SE Queensland Australia about 45kms north of Brisbane - the climate is subtropical (similar to Florida). I started Self Sufficient Me in 2011 as a blog website project where I document and write about backyard food growing, self-sufficiency, and urban farming in general. I love sharing my foodie and DIY adventures online so come along with me and let's get into it! Cheers, Mark :)

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[emilybh]

I got a kick out of the video of the turkey chase. It was fascinating to see the turkey trying to hide from you and the camera behind the tree.

[HealthyLivingWithWendy]

It was like you and the turkey was playing peekaboo. I enjoy listen to you having your talk with the turkey.

[lovethemanyway]

Love the Turkey 🦃 attempting to hide from you, back and forth, behind the trees. — and how you spoke to them! I nearly woke my husband while watching this video with ear buds, super early this morning, when literal sounds of chuckling laughter emitted from my mouth! I even surprised myself hearing this, for it’s so rare. I usually just laugh inside to things. Thank you, for sharing this with us, for your humor, knowledge, wisdom & doing what you do! ❤️

[simplifygardening]

WOW scrub bush turkeys like to dig Mark. I guess we all have our pests but like all great gardeners, we find ways to put them off until the plants establish and then we can release them free to the world. Great video my friend

[ddeaae]

We were praying through those rains glad to see you all are safe. We love your videos We learned alot. In today's world we all need a victory garden! Cheers!

[GenryusaiShikeguniYamamoto]

at around the four minute mark, the little hide-and-seek thing you did, I've done with wild turkey and deer where I live. they don't really care if you get close so long as they have a long run nearby.

[judithstorck]

We live in the USA - SW Arizona so we don't have those scrub Turkeys, but we do have ground squirrels & rabbits. On one YouTube video I learned that shavings if Irish Spring bar soap spread around or outside the garden will keep them away - they do not like the strong scent. Judi

[dellkaandersen]

Used to love the scrub turkeys on the block. Only ever had one problem with them. That was eating the pumpkins from the back.
I'd go to grab a pumpkin that looked vreat only to find half of it missing!! 😁

[leighmonty]

Cool video, good to see you had a quick easy fix without harming the turkeys.

[ellenpatterson-neelen]

I love that you say what we are all thinking and experiencing! Much love to you from New Jersey in the US!

[hannahchristine]

Wow, that’s wild how comfortable they are around you. So funny to watch the chase. Thanks for the videos!

[StorytimewithMeemaw]

This was so much fun! That turkey trying to dodge you around the trees was so funny!

[brokerken]

Timely video Mark! I'm trying to see how to prevent similar issues here that we had last year. I set up a trail cam to see who was eating my spinach. Over 200 pics in the first night! Birds, rabbits, mice, and a friggin groundhog! Who knew they all were Popeye fans?

[DSKy]

Great ideas ! I am in western Japan and we get alot of bears, pheasants and deer here that get into the garden so I will give it a shot ! Ta

[dmcentYT]

Wow that was an amazing job that Turkey did moving all that mulch across the yard. Animals are amazing every single day they fight to survive and do amazing things to build homes

[WilderDust]

Thank you. Very timely.
I have jolly bandicoots (I think, as they strike at night) snuffing around in my new garden bed in northern NSW. This has given me some ideas how to deal with them.

[Angie-cilp]

That tree chase was absolutely hilarious 😆😁😄😆

[jaredmccutcheon]

“Oh no! There couldn’t be 3 of you, that’s just overdoing it”. 😂😂 I got a kick out of that part. I know they’re protected there but I think I’d quietly have a turkey BBQ if they were destroying my garden, lol.

[jameso]

Hate birds digging through my mulch making a mess taking my worms, I buy a roll of fly wire mesh and use that to cover my ground and make the cuts with a razor blade to go around the base of the plant and hold it down with spare rocks I have.. works a treat!

[lizpoole]

Cracking up at you having a talk either those scrub turkeys. 🤣 Love your videos!