Hey, what's up everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Garden Show. I hope your day is going awesome.

Nay, I hope it's going epic. Anyways, we're talking about a question that I got from a reader.

So this is from Brittany, and she says,

Help.

Possums are eating my fruits and some veggies.

Because of shared fences and city restrictions, there is nothing I can put on top of the fence to stop them from coming in.

Even my two small dogs do not deter them any suggestions so this actually

reminds me of a funny little story I was in the backyard in my house and

sitting on some of this patio furniture I had just got I had had just set up, there's a little fire pit going, just enjoying my night, and I live in a very urban environment.

I've got downtown is about a mile away, there's a canyon that's about another mile to the west and so obviously there's a good bit of

wildlife but it's still quite urban. I'm sitting there I think I'm

probably drinking hot chocolate maybe a beer I don't remember and just

right over my garden backyard fence boom possum comes up and scatters scurries down through my

backyard into my bougin vvie Bush and just kind of sits there and hides.

And it freaked me out because, I mean, that's just a startling thing to encounter, right?

I mean, it's just, did not expect that. So freaked me out, but I ended up kind of just taking a look at him.

You know, the real truth is that, first of all, they're called O-Possums, not possums.

It's just a really common misconception. It's a marsupial, it's one of the only

marsupials in America and it is more afraid of you than you should be of it. Something that's interesting about them is that they

are a true omnivore and what they'll do is they will run through and eat many of the annoying bugs in the garden. They'll eat stink bugs, they'll eat ticks. In fact, they can eat maybe around 5,000 ticks per season, something that I looked up.

So they are pretty beneficial from the sense of taking

care of a lot of the annoying pests and insects.

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