Animal Pest Controls
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Prevent, Identify, Control: An Integrated Approach to Managing Pests and Disease
Learn about integrated garden pest and disease management and access resources for preventing, detecting, and mitigating pest and disease problems.
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Keep Rodents in the Wild and not in Your Home
Don't let voles and mice into your garden or home!
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Raccoons: Nocturnal Nuisances
Don't let this nocturnal bandit into your garden, compost, or trash.
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Keeping Wildlife out of the Garden
In this video, our friend and gardening expert Charlie Nardozzi talks about how to keep wildlife out of your garden.
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Keeping Squirrels Out
Tips for keeping squirrels out of your birdfeeders.
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How to Keep Dogs and Cats Out of the Garden
Fences, barriers, and repellents can help keep our furred friends out of the garden.
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Garden Fencing for Animal Pests
If you build it...maybe they won't come? Fencing is a surefire way to keep animals out of a prized garden.
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Welcome Snakes Into the Garden — But Not Your Home
Techniques for managing snakes in the garden. They're the "good guys" who eat rodents and slugs.
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Protect Your Garden From Deer
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.
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A Savvy Gardener Gives Deer Their Own Clover Meadow
Give the deer their own meadow and they might just leave your garden alone.
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Protecting Berries from Birds
Your best bet for protecting your beauteous berries from hungry birds? An easy-to-assemble exclusion cage.
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Control Those Moles!
These insect-eating, underground dwellers are found throughout the country and prefer moist loamy soils to dig, avoiding sandy or clay soils when possible.
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Preventing Rats in the Garden and Home
Persistence is needed to keep rats out of your garden, greenhouse, and garage.
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Keeping Animal Pests Out of Your 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?
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Mouse in the House? No, Thank You!
Cooler temperatures send mice scurrying to warmer places (i.e. your house).
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Woodchuck
Woodchucks are found mostly in the Northeast and Midwest, inhabiting burrows in orchards, fields, sloping woodlands — and maybe under your porch.
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Preventing Bird Damage in the Garden
As gardeners, we love our feathered friends, but don't always appreciate them in the veggie garden.
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Deterring Bears on Your Property
It's in everyone's best interest — including the bears' — to discourage human/bear interactions and keep bears wild.
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Roll Out the Unwelcome Mat for Squirrels
Tired of furry pests invading your yard? Roll out the unwelcome mat for squirrels!
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Armadillo
Techniques for preventing garden damage by this nocturnal creature.
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How To Prevent Skunk Damage
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.
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Opossum Control
Prevent opossums from rummaging around your garden with repellants, fencing, and good old scare tactics.
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Oh, Deer!
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.
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Preventing Bird Damage in the Garden
As gardeners, we love our feathered friends, but don't always appreciate them in the veggie garden.
