When you are covering your strawberry tree with the laundry bag cut it down one side it won't Fray and then use hair clips to keep it closed so that it is much easier to open and pick the strawberries. Love your hacks
No, pollinators won't be able to get to the blossoms. This idea is perfect for blueberry bushes, though, because by the time you need to net them, all the blossoms have been pollinated and are ripening into berries.
@@jayamburn1959 Good day to you.... Been starting many different seedlings... surprised at the success.... especially Lemon Tree plants... What about you?
Next time you are installing a mesh bag on your towers, roll it all the way down til it resembles a tire. Then turn it upside down on the top of the tower & unroll it over the tower. No dragging it along the plants!
Love it! Too many RU-vid gardeners recommend expensive solutions that aren’t needed. My favorite trick is buying tulle from Joann’s for 75c a yard, and then using it as bug netting. Cheap and easy and keeps the slugs and cabbage moths away
Just got back from Dollar Tree. Found the netting and bought 5. Gonna use it on the vertical planters just like you did. Thanks again for the info 😊👍🥰🤗
Tanya, thank you for sharing this video. The Dollar Tree waste basket is quite useful in covering the tops of ten inch containers to detear the notorious white butterflies that produce those voracious green caterpillars from eating up our leafy green vegetables. I will soon purchase those laundry bags for similar usage. The hoopla hoops, knitting, and clips will also come in handy. Thanks again for your Dollar Tree hacks. God bless you.
Great ideas. Love the wastebasket cloche. Squirrels are my nemesis. I have a neighbor who puts out huge bags of peanuts and they destroy my pots and gardens burying them. I use wood BBQ skewers….points up….around my plants….and I roll up the bird netting to make a collar around the rim of my pots. I do, however, get stabbed with the points frequently. Same neighbor puts cat food out for the skunks. They are a problem also. Then there’s the ground hog and bunnies. It’s a never ending battle. Linda Vater recently soaked some little pieces of wood in mentholatum to keep squirrels out of her window boxes. Someone told her to put it on her decorative pumpkins last fall to keep the squirrels from eating them and it worked. She also uses pea gravel on top of the soil in her potted plants to keep them from digging.
Thanks for the tips! I have a huge skunk problem. They tear up everything! And gophers. You’re right, it is a never ending battle! Thanks for watching 💚
I got big containers of Cayenne pepper from a local store. Sprinkle it around your containers. Animals hate it. Only problem is that you'll have to reapply once it rains.
Such brilliant ideas! I struggled last year as did most everyone with a below average tomato haul. PLUS I had thieves, sneaky, pesky squirrels. Watched a man in New Zealand or Australia show how he protected his mango crop. He makes individual "Bags" out of metal window screen. IT WORKED! I cut a square piece of screen about 12", then form molded it around a 28 ounce can of beans, tomato what ever. I just folded the excess and what I ended up with was a can shaped basket. One end is open and I slid that over my cluster of growing tomato. They were cherry sized at the time but because I chose a 28 ounce can instead of a 16 ounce can for my mold, there was adequate space for the tomatoes to enlarge and grow. I bought that spool of garden wire from the Dollar and a Quarter store and wired tied the open end of my basket closed. The only thing leaving that basket is the tomato plant stalk. IT WORKS! The squirrels still attempt to bite into it, but when they realize it is metal off that scadaddle and leave my food unhurt! A generous roll of metal window screen (GET THE METAL) not the plastic ran me $8.98 2021. I made about 12 baskets and had plenty of wire left over.
I live in Rhode Island and am looking forward to getting my planting going. I purchased 6 of the stacking planters from DT.......I want to plant lettuce//strawberries and tomatoes and some flowers and some other things too (have not decided what yet !!!). I am going to drill holes on the bottom of each pot and going to get that laundry bag to fit over the planters. Our squirrels have real attitudes. They will pick something ... look at you right in the eye .... take one bite and then fling whatever it is at you .... and go on the the next piece ..... so the laundry bag is a GREAT idea. I plan on YouTubing my planting adventure. Thank you for sharing ....
Oh wow! Those are some bold squirrels. By the way, those plugs on the bottom of the planters actually pop off for drainage. They work wonders when watering. The runoff goes to the pots below 💚
Hi Tanya, You are a clever gal! I'm 72 and a 50+ year Gardener. 13 years ago I began raising worms in a Can-O-Worms. A year and a half ago I started a RU-vid channel and I am having a great time connecting with other like-minded people. I'm in Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 We are far from 🏜 desert, but we do have birds and Squirrels. I love your way of providing a net without cutting back on airflow. Good luck to you and God bless 🙏
@@thebusybrownangel5829 thank you, but time doesn't necessarily mean success 🙂 You're young and you have very clever ideas. Keep doing what you are doing and your star will shine, for sure ✨️
I LOVE your ideas….am also a longtime gardener over 70…learned from my grandfather/grandmother and mother…now showing grandchildren and great grandchildren 🤗
Oh my gosh, genius! I do have everything in my garden with hoops and tulle, however, the laundry netting, genius! I now know how I'm going to cover my strawberries in my stackables...thanks for sharing!😊
Thanks for letting me know that the squirrels chewed through it. I actually feed squirrels on my deck in the winter and usually wean them off in time for spring gardening. This year I have some babies as well as some handicapped squirrels that visit so I don't have the heart to ignore their begging.
They also have a platic round laundry basket at the Dolar store ( now a Dollar and a quarter) you can use instead of the waste basket, if you need a bit bigger cover. I miss the pop-up large mesh laundry baskets they used to have. I used those over pots as well. Thank you for this fun, creative video.
I miss those too. I used them a lot. I happened to buy a bunch of them before my store stopped selling them and really don’t want to spend the extra money at another big box store. The last time I checked (probably last fall), they still had them on their website but you have to buy a case. It will probably be worth it if they still have them. The sun does ruin the fabric on the top after a while.
Great ideas thanks for sharing! We have problems with leaf miners and cabbage moths on some of our plants so we also use the hoola hoops for arches and drape insect netting over the plants. It works great beats loosing half your production to the pests. A garden hack we do also is buy spring onions/scallions from the supermarket and just use the green tops for salads. we plant the bottom 2 inches including the root section in the garden and get multiple harvests throughout the season for salads.
I’m gonna utilize your hula hoop idea and place one at either end of the raised bed and in the middle and seed and run garbage bags or a bed sheet over the top of the hula hoop to be my greenhouse! Love the hula hoop idea it’s awesome 👏 and could be used for many outdoor solutions in the garden! Great video I’m a new subscriber as of now! 🙏✝️ God bless
@@thebusybrownangel5829 thank you! I will try to remember to follow up to let you know how it goes! It won’t be big, but it will be an awesome way to start the seeds in the spot the plants will remain in; I think without an actual green house to do it in this may work well! 😀
I bought the laundry bag a few weeks ago with the plan to cover squash with a tomato cage to protect against squash bugs. Also, something has been digging in my garden bought some cloches'; but also found an inexpensive way to protect plants. I use the dollar tree fencing to fence in an area.
It would be easier if you cut the mesh bag over the strawberries and then hold it closed with some laundry pins, making it easier to get to your strawberries as needed. Great ideas though.
I didn’t realize the birds were planting the acorns!! But I do see the squirrels digging them up - making a mess of my plantings! I planted some cherry tomato seeds in a hanging basket and went to bring it in from the cold last night and “someone” had dug up all my seeds! Love your ideas - I just subscribed. Thank you!
Thanks for watching and welcome to the family 💚 I don’t know what’s worse, the birds or the squirrels! The birds make a mess on my front porch everyday. They flick soil all over the place making room for their acorns. 🤦🏽♀️
I have loose neighborhood cats that keep digging up my potted plants. My parents have chipmunk and something else eating there tubers from underground. It's always going to be something 😊
That was great!! Hoola hoops are much cheaper than say pvc pipe hoops. And the dollar store mesh, have to see if my store has it. If not will grab mesh laundry bags. Thank you.
MY GOODNESS THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!!! HAHA LOL! YOUR A GENIUS HAHAHAHA i have been trying to find MESH ONLINE FOR A GARDEN I WANT TO START AND FOUND THEM TO BE WAY TOO EXPENSIVE THEY WERE LIKE 15.99 17.99 AND 50.00! I WAS LIKE NO STUPID WAY I'M BUYING THAT! 15.00 20.00 FOR SOME MESH! ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS!
Just found your video and WOW!! Such a BEAUTIFUL garden and love your hacks!! I can listen to this video all day as birds chirping a lovely sound to hear!! Thank you for sharing,new subbie!!🌱💕😊🙏🏼
Miss. That so cool how you did your garden. Set up so all can be protected an keep growing. I do that same trick with the stakeup planter and the laundry net to cover. It works. Thank you for sharing💚🌼🌟🏡
Thanks for such great ideas. Love the hoola hoop and especially love the laundry bag idea. You're really a Brown Sugar Cookie. Keep sharing. We'll keep watching.
I can't live without my clips. I couldn't get them last year and I felt lost. Just picked some up for this year and was so happy. They're truly great. Got all my giant bamboo tomato stakes at the dollar store. They're a wealth of gardening supplies.
*Hello, New Here with a Thumbs up & Full watch. I absolutely Love watching & learning from others that garden. I Love DT stuff, so you definitely got my attention. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE.....your tips. Thank you I Truly Appreciate you!!! 🌱🍅🥒🌱🍅🌱* Sharon in SC
Your ideas are fantastic. I would never have thought to use the laundry mesh bags that way. My husband uses the dollar tree plastic round laundry baskets to cover newly planted vegetables in containers. It keeps the critters from eating the tender sprouts.
Thank you! I thought about using the collapsable laundry baskets for the same thing. Especially after I caught the squirrels eating the new leaves on my hibiscuses 💚
😂 I’m sorry for laughing, but I have a video of a squirrel trying to steal my neighbor’s rope. Those little devils chewed through the laundry bag 😂 I use wire fencing with the bird netting now. 💚
Thank you so much for sharing! These are great ideas 🙌🏻! I think they’ll work for puppy proofing my plants too! Those are very determined squirrels 🐿 that you have 😳!
Thank you..these larger bags were missing from Dollar Tree for a long time. Luckily I went today and they were restocked. I and my Dollar Tree tower thank you.
You’re a genius making cloche with dollar tree trashcans!….omg and the Landry bag! I’m going to try that! Another tip for you: birds usually only want your fruit for the water content. Some gardeners have said that if you put a bird bath out near your garden, they won’t bother your fruit
I especially like the idea of the covering for the strawberry plants! Will definitely help to keep the birds away. Thank you for taking time to do a good video!
Your intro is so motivating! And then you waste no time with your wonderful shares. With your voice so calm it made it easy to follow. Liked, saved & subbed 💕🌻🐝 Thank you!
your dollar tree hauls are by far my favorite!! i’m a frugal shopper and you’ve made it soo much easier to be cute and cheap in the garden😂🥰 keep it up queen!!!
I love your dollar tree videos! I just can’t get enough Dollar Tree content. They are informative. I make dollar Tree videos too. It’s a pleasure to learn from other talented creators like you! I hope we can learn more from each other!