Garden Covers to Prevent Animals

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Epic Gardening

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🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

I get a lot of questions about mammalian pests - rabbits, squirrels, and deer. I don’t battle them much in my garden, but Niki Jabbour does, and she shares her favorite covers that prevent them in today’s episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome back everyone to the Epic Gardening Podcast. We are talking about
0:16.6	garden covers this week with none other than Nicky Jabour. She is an award-winning
0:20.8	author. She has a ton of books out. The most recent one is growing
0:25.2	under cover, which is of course what we're talking about. But she also has a radio show. She's
0:30.1	very well known for growing in quite a cold climate you said zone five right
0:33.7	Nicky yeah zone five zone five up in Halifax Nova Scotia nope yeah
0:40.2	Halifax Nova Scotia yeah I mean we're almost at the province is almost an island. We're just joined by a small dambridge to the rest of Canada.
0:46.5	So it's, you know, the ocean does offer some, it's a little bit temperate for us, so it doesn't, we don't get the deep snow that mainwood not going what usually sometimes we get a lot of snow
0:55.3	and ice yeah yeah and I mean I got I got a little bit of frozen water on my roof and I like freaked out. I think it's mostly
1:05.7	because I put a roof on that stays really really cold at the new house and it
1:10.2	wouldn't it wasn't even freezing temperatures just some weird flu happened that's really as
1:13.6	close as I get to inclement weather but we're not talking about inclement
1:16.5	weather we're talking about animals specifically some of the larger ones and
1:20.0	how garden covers can prevent because ny I get a lot of questions about
1:23.0	deer rabbits squirrels chipmunks those types of pests which I really besides
1:29.6	maybe a squirrel don't really battle much and I'm curious how you use different types of
1:34.3	covers to prevent these different types of mammals coming through.
1:38.6	You know it's I'm so jealous you don't deal with deer because I think most of us in
1:42.4	North America deal with deer I I think most of us in North America
1:43.0	deal with deer I mean I live deep in deer country usually I see the family of four
1:47.8	which is the past year to the family that's of deer that have been wandering through
1:51.2	my garden every day.
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