Animal Pest Controls
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Cooler temperatures send mice scurrying to warmer places (i.e. your house). -
If you've tried repelling, excluding, and scaring away garden pests and it's still causing problems, it may be time to trap it. -
These gentle grazers will make a meal out of your garden and landscaping if you're not careful! Read our best tips for preventing deer damage in the garden. -
Woodchucks are found mostly in the Northeast and Midwest, inhabiting burrows in orchards, fields, sloping woodlands — and maybe under your porch. -
Prevent opossums from rummaging around your garden with repellants, fencing, and good old scare tactics. -
Don't let this nocturnal bandit into your garden, compost, or trash. -
Don't let voles and mice into your garden or home! -
In this video, our friend and gardening expert Charlie Nardozzi talks about how to keep wildlife out of your garden. -
Persistence is needed to keep rats out of your garden, greenhouse, and garage. -
As gardeners, we love our feathered friends, but don't always appreciate them in the veggie garden. -
What is a nature-loving, generally peaceful gardener to do when voles, woodchucks, squirrels, gophers, rabbits, moles, and other small mammals wreak havoc on our gardens? -
If you build it...maybe they won't come? Fencing is a surefire way to keep animals out of a prized garden. -
A few simple techniques for keeping coyotes out of your garden. -
While they may not be nibbling on the plants directly, skunks can dig up and destroy a garden bed overnight on their quest for insects. -
Techniques for preventing garden damage by this nocturnal creature.
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Techniques for keeping these cute, yet persistent, creatures out of the garden and off your birdfeeders. -
Tired of furry pests invading your yard? Roll out the unwelcome mat for squirrels! -
It's in everyone's best interest — including the bears' — to discourage human/bear interactions and keep bears wild. -
These insect-eating, underground dwellers are found throughout the country and prefer moist loamy soils to dig, avoiding sandy or clay soils when possible. -
Your best bet for protecting your beauteous berries from hungry birds? An easy-to-assemble exclusion cage. -
Give the deer their own meadow and they might just leave your garden alone. -
We love our backyard deer, but we don't always like what they do to our gardens. We share our favorite deer-repelling tips and deer-resistant plants. -
Fences, barriers, and repellents can help keep our furred friends out of the garden. -
Techniques for managing snakes in the garden. They're the "good guys" who eat rodents and slugs. -
As absurdly cute as they are, rabbits can wreck a garden overnight. Watch and learn how to protect your crop. -
Tips for keeping squirrels out of your birdfeeders.
