I was rolling watching you two. 😂 On the gopher front, please make wire gopher barriers that fit beneath the raised beds. I had to make my own for mine, but it would be so much easier to just buy them from you guys pre-made. I no longer have gophers in my raised beds, but now they've moved into my garden paths. I trip in their burrow holes a lot more, but they don't eat my crops anymore.
You guys should talk with Brian from "Big Dreams, Little Homestead" and "Next Level Gardening." I think he lives in your general area and has been locked in battle with those little gophers for a long time. He uses a kill trap that seems pretty effective. He also puts wire on the bottom of all his beds and around all his trees. Glad we don't have them here - they seem relentless.
Last year we watched a gopher chomp down the tomatoes one by one… then the strawberry plants I took care of for two years, then all the lettuce… all of this happened in one day over four raised beds. We spent the beginning of January digging out all of the soil and found that the single layer of gopher wire at the bottom was chewed away and rusted. We laid down two layers of galvenized hardware cloth , attached at the sides with u shaped nails and bent into place, bricks at every corner, a layer of bedrock, a layer of pebbles, a layer of gopher wire on top of that (different than hardware cloth). The bedrock will allow drainage but also compact and hopefully stop them. Looking back I would recommend doing a layer of brick.
We lived out in the country north of San Diego and being surrounded by open land, gophers were a constant. One of the best long term solutions was snakes. Local high schoolers would bring me snakes they found (mostly gopher snakes) and drop them down any holes. Not scary, rarely saw the snakes again and my dogs left them alone. Obviously, no rattlesnakes.
I'm so glad to see your cabbage had worms in it. This is my first year experiencing this. I just quarter the head, remove the core and separate the leaves, being mindful to wash each leaf section carefully. It takes a little more time but then I don't have food waste. Thanks for showing the worms in your cabbage.
We also have gophers in the area and each of our raised garden beds have at the bottom chicken wire fencing. Since you've already filled yours in with dirt maybe just take half of the dirt out, put down some chicken wire fencing and put the dirt back on top. That'll give you at least a foot of good earth before you hit the chicken wire fencing.
The "Gopher Hawk" trap is the best one I've found so far in my 5 year battle with gophers. Those traps along with wire mesh, castor oil and a barn cat are the only way I can garden! Good luck.
I had to empty out a 4ft by 20ft raised bed and put down hardware cloth because of gophers. Now all my raised beds have hardware cloth under them except for 1. It totally sucked but it’s done
Unfortunately, I've been sick the last several days, and I'm itching to get into my garden and do some work. Your videos have been great for me! I'm still getting a taste of the garden even while being forced to rest. :)
I had to rip out my entire raised block garden due to gophers. I laid down hardware cloth, purchased your Vego raised beds, and placed them on top of the hardware cloth. I am refilling & planting them. I'm hoping this will be my answer to no gophers in my raised beds.
When I move next month and start my new homestead I plan on putting aluminum hardware cloth down FIRST. I fought voles and moles for years in my old garden. I planted both in ground and raised beds and we tried poison, smoke, electronic devices and NONE of it worked. They would move out for a week or two and were back overnight! So to prevent them from digging into my new raised beds I will be putting down something that they can’t dig through. Good luck on your gopher problem. Try watching “Caddy Shack “ 😂
Gophers don't like eucalyptus. Can buy ut in crystal form. Can cover your crops that don't flower with insect netting . Get less bugs. But that broccoli looks amazing!!
Kevin and Jacques, I too figured out have gophers when they ate my sunflowers and watermelon last season. I thought about digging up all my beds to put in hardware cloth but I don’t plan yo be in my current home for too much longer. Instead I decided on a granular mole repellent that has worked so far. It’s called Molemax and it’s castor oil based. That might work for you if you don’t feel like redoing all of your beds.
Ugh. Our New Years 8 inches of snow killed my beautiful brassicas. I was going to hoop them, but 3 weeks of heavy snow, below freezing made that pointless. I wanted to say, I am obsessed with the 16 cell trays for lettuce, cool flowers, and now spicy peppers. They are ideal for small crops and things like lisianthus and phlox that want a literal bog for weeks to germinate. I feel like they are also ideal for slow germ peppers and trying it now. Much less soil to algae (I literally cannot grow Lisianthus any other way). So, so good. I have used the 4 and 6 since it came out, but slept on the 16 for budget reasons last year. Now thanks to the great sales, I have a collection of 16. Now can we please have a narrow, but deep pot, like a roottrainer, but more durable, basically the height of the tall 4 cell, but the size of a 6. :-) Such a great new addition. Also bananas germ on the new Sweet William, like in mere days.
Years ago, my mother had a ponderosa lemon tree. It was under 6' tall but made huge lemons. The grapefruits were embarrassed because those lemons were substantially bigger than they were. She grew it outside in zone 9, Florida. It would probably do well in your area too.
#1 gopher recommendation = Get a barn cat or stray and let it thrive and be loved as an outdoor cat. Feed it enough(not too much), preferable in the garden (near gopher holes) often. Nothing else i have ever done has gotten rid of them without spending too much labor(traps, repellent, etc.). Eventually the cat will bring you gophers in exchange for cat food. Good luck on Operation Graft
Yeah. It seems odd, but feral cats usually will hunt right after feeding (while they have energy, I guess), so that plan sounds solid. My Felix was a feral kitten and he is awesome on all rodents, including hares bigger than he is. 🐈⬛. His only failing is in cold wet winters, he doesn't fancy hanging round with his arm down a hole to get the moles, so if it doesn't freeze, they run riot.
@@kirstypollock6811 Who also doesn't want a fun garden pet too? Your cat sound great. My theme is everyone has a job on the farm. Mine is old and trained, if I pick him up and set him next to a gopher hole he understands the assignment :)
You know you're an Epic Gardening nerd when you're super excited about the outdoor fridge's first haul... Yeah, I'm loving the huge harvest and am definitely an epic gardening nerd. When I heard the sirens in the background, I thought your neighbor had changed her mind about letting you harvest the avos. 🚨🥑🚔
I tried last year, and had to cut it down before we got a long hard freeze last month because my hoop enclosure was too short to fit over them. They were prolific with leafy growth (about 2 feet tall) and had just started to show any signs of heading. They took up way too much room in my raised bed and crowded out my carrots which were far more performant despite the competition for light. I won't use my precious garden space on these space eaters again. I can buy broccoli.
I haven't implemented it myself, but if you're willing to put in the up front effort my bet for gopher control would be coarse gravel. A 6" layer of 1" coarse gravel is difficult enough to dig through that it makes an effective barrier. You definitely want a few feet of buffer around the raised beds though, since gophers can and will walk across the surface a short distance if the temptation is good enough. It exposes them to predation so they don't like it, so the longer the distance they have to cover the less likely they are to do it. Gravel is a solution that in theory will last years, allows water to drain, doesn't involve chemicals, and doesn't require any handling of ex-gophers. It's a big project though, and means you can't do fun stuff like grow things in between the raised beds.
Hey guys - I recall several years ago on Alton Brown’s Food Network show “Good Eats” he showed how to store beets in a container full of sand (sanitized) in a container, then into the refrigerator. I think he had carrots in there too. Apparently it keeps them from drying out.
I have serious broc-envy. I don't even try heading broccoli anymore and just stick with the purple sprouters. And you SO need a Meyer lemon! Talk about perfume...💚 Not too many people on YT make me laugh out loud, but your "Hey, eyes up here!" with the pockets full of avocados...😂
I'm near Mission Bay, and the rental next door is gopher central. We have 3 gopher Hawk traps and every time one of the beasts makes it under the wall into our yard, we gopher hawk it. We can't grow squash, to close to the coast I guess.
Broccoli has been my best harvest by far and I can utilize it in so many ways. I don't think I'll ever stop growing them now. Yours are massive though! Mine aren't even close!
I don't know what it is with today? But after mid day it's just sucked today , but let me say. Seeing a new video to watch from you guys has seriously made me happy and given me something to look forward too. I enjoy watching your stuff so much guys , it truly makes me feel happy to know there are other people who love to garden. A moment of serenity in a world of chaos ✨️ thank you Kevin, Jacques and the rest of the team.
Every time I’ve grown broccoli it’s gone yellow, and then I realized I have so much lead in the ground from the lead paint that’s falling off the walls. I can’t grow anything in my garden.
Try using raised beds over a hard surface like concrete as at least the led won't get in your body. But it don't have to be concreate as long as it's not touching the contaminated soil it would be fine. However you really do need to get rid of the lead paint and repaint your walls for the long run
If you live West of the Rockies, be aware you probably aren’t dealing with the same kinds of gophers as we have in the rest of the country. The West coast has a lot of endemic native ground squirrels and other rodents that exist nowhere else on Earth. Even if they look the same, they’re probably a slightly different species or subspecies. I know sometimes traps are the only way, but be aware endangered species can live in your backyard too.
"Master of the broc" is hilarious to me, as a Dane. "Brok" (pronounced exactly like you said) is Danish for "complaint", so you kind of said that you were the master of complaining 😂 Also, that whole bok choy part had me rolling. Choilettes 🤣What an amazing harvest, overall!
So jealous every time I see the citrus hedge, would love one myself, but I live in England so wouldn’t be very easy to do! I did find 2x avocado trees growing in my compost bin. They’re now inside and one’s doing well, but the other is dying. Don’t think they would fruit over here without lots of light and a heated greenhouse or something beyond my financial means😅
I am up the coast from you but gophers and snails are my worst problems. I use wood boxes with wire bottoms. It is just too sad to lose a whole bunch of plants.
I have rocks at the bottom of my raised beds. No gophers can get yup there. Mine is a wicking bed lined with plastic too. I also put a hose in running water down their hole for awhile. Haven't seen them recently. hopefully they are gone. crossingfingers.
I have brassica envy. Mine never get big. Had a couple of ok romanesco, otherwise, lacking size or taken out by whitefly. I had to work hard to stay on top of the caterpillars and slugs too.
My Gopher recommendation is Cats. I have had 2 cats for the past 13 or so years. My neighbor across the street is being terrorized by gophers, ive NEVER seen them in my yard.
Stainless steel hardware cloth, overlapped by 6-12”, and stainless steel pins, Ft Knox. BUT I am just installing. Proof will take time. 🤨 waiting for my contractors finish so we can build and place the birdies raised beds, backfill paths with shredded bark.
i highly recommend gopher wire over (most) hardware cloth if possible. I had a raised bed that was completely eaten through by gophers and they got to my artichokes :( When i rebuilt with gopher wire i haven't had any problems
As someone who lives near OKC, can confirm. The selection of fruit and veg is sad out here 🤣☠️. Also, I’m curious why Jacque was out here👀. What I would’ve given to meet THE garden hermit!🤣🖤🖤
Gophers: I've built mini decks above ground to place my raised beds on top of. Extreme but effective. They have found their way to my in ground garden bed. I think my garlic has detoured them from eating anything.
My neighborhood had a gopher and rat problem until we moved in with our cat. Then my neighbors started getting cats. We only get a gopher occasionally now and it gets caught pretty quickly.
I'm inspired! Is it too late to start growing broccoli just north of you in Corona? The gopherhawk is the only thing I found that works on gophers, but nothing that prevents them other than lining your bed in hardware cloth or planting trees in chicken wire bags.
Such a fun video, you guys! Keep it up. Here in Minnesota, I am watching you with major fruit and avocado envy. I'm fighting chipmunks that burrow in my raised beds. Would love to know what others are doing for pest control.
I hate gophers 😫 My garden looks like a war zone from flooding the holes and my dog digging them up. She is my secret weapon, but this one is proving Cadyshack tricky. I had a gopherhawk at one time, but I bent it the first time using it. You have to be careful in setting it. I feel like all the gophers are reproducing and I'm losing the battle. My raised beds have hardware cloth under them, but I want to put stuff in the ground like watermelon and pumpkins and last year the gophers destroyed them all. Even my yellow squash got taken out.
Bugs got my broccoli and cabbage. I think I planted them too late .. I will try again, in a new spot, earlier this year and I will plant more kale this year.. kale did well and I like it in soup
OH you're killing me with not eating the beet greens! Get those lovelies in a pot with some water, salt and a slice of hickory smoked bacon and cook it until it is almost soup - it will melt in your mouth goodness! Beet greens are by far better than spinach in my opinion. That's soul food right there!
Did you find that the wooden orchard harvest box was good for storing? Storage is my biggest issue currently as I don’t have a cold room or covered outdoor shady area.
The dynamic between you two is awesome. You both are so funny.
You can’t keep doing this. It’s 1:26 in the morning and you’re going to make me want to go outside and garden. 😂
😂
They really need to be more considerate when they inspire us. Make sure to do it in the morning please! lol
Kevin, Jacques, and Eric are my favorite Gardening threesome! Thanks for more awesome content.
Late night binging and seeing a new video from my favorite channel is like finding a 20 in your laundry
Lol.
I was rolling watching you two. 😂
On the gopher front, please make wire gopher barriers that fit beneath the raised beds. I had to make my own for mine, but it would be so much easier to just buy them from you guys pre-made. I no longer have gophers in my raised beds, but now they've moved into my garden paths. I trip in their burrow holes a lot more, but they don't eat my crops anymore.
You guys should talk with Brian from "Big Dreams, Little Homestead" and "Next Level Gardening." I think he lives in your general area and has been locked in battle with those little gophers for a long time. He uses a kill trap that seems pretty effective. He also puts wire on the bottom of all his beds and around all his trees. Glad we don't have them here - they seem relentless.
Last year we watched a gopher chomp down the tomatoes one by one… then the strawberry plants I took care of for two years, then all the lettuce… all of this happened in one day over four raised beds. We spent the beginning of January digging out all of the soil and found that the single layer of gopher wire at the bottom was chewed away and rusted. We laid down two layers of galvenized hardware cloth , attached at the sides with u shaped nails and bent into place, bricks at every corner, a layer of bedrock, a layer of pebbles, a layer of gopher wire on top of that (different than hardware cloth). The bedrock will allow drainage but also compact and hopefully stop them. Looking back I would recommend doing a layer of brick.
We lived out in the country north of San Diego and being surrounded by open land, gophers were a constant. One of the best long term solutions was snakes. Local high schoolers would bring me snakes they found (mostly gopher snakes) and drop them down any holes. Not scary, rarely saw the snakes again and my dogs left them alone. Obviously, no rattlesnakes.
Good idea
I'm so glad to see your cabbage had worms in it. This is my first year experiencing this. I just quarter the head, remove the core and separate the leaves, being mindful to wash each leaf section carefully. It takes a little more time but then I don't have food waste. Thanks for showing the worms in your cabbage.
We also have gophers in the area and each of our raised garden beds have at the bottom chicken wire fencing. Since you've already filled yours in with dirt maybe just take half of the dirt out, put down some chicken wire fencing and put the dirt back on top. That'll give you at least a foot of good earth before you hit the chicken wire fencing.
The editing is awesome. It’s perfectly sprinkled in and adds a lot to the video
The "Gopher Hawk" trap is the best one I've found so far in my 5 year battle with gophers. Those traps along with wire mesh, castor oil and a barn cat are the only way I can garden! Good luck.
I had to empty out a 4ft by 20ft raised bed and put down hardware cloth because of gophers. Now all my raised beds have hardware cloth under them except for 1. It totally sucked but it’s done
nature doesnt hurt just be sure to check when you prep. Great looking broccoli mate, they obviously loved the weather
Very true!
Try Piracicaba sprouting broccoli. It’s from Brazil and is very productive and tolerates heat. Tastes out of this world.
Tried first time last year from recommend from Jerra’s Garden. Tasty.😊
@@shirleyn4677 I bought my seeds from Jerra’s Garden as well.
I always love how silly y'all are with your intros lol. The simple laughing makes me smile every time haha.
Some people watch for gardening... I watch for the bromance.
Your banter guys is endearing and entertaining too. I enjoy watching and learning from you both!
Unfortunately, I've been sick the last several days, and I'm itching to get into my garden and do some work. Your videos have been great for me! I'm still getting a taste of the garden even while being forced to rest. :)
I have always had huge amazing broccoli harvests...I'm the broccoli whisperer of oregon haha. It's a top 5 favorite veggie for me.
I had to rip out my entire raised block garden due to gophers. I laid down hardware cloth, purchased your Vego raised beds, and placed them on top of the hardware cloth. I am refilling & planting them. I'm hoping this will be my answer to no gophers in my raised beds.
Make sure its gopher wire, not hardware cloth. Gophers can and will chew through hardware cloth fyi.
When I move next month and start my new homestead I plan on putting aluminum hardware cloth down FIRST. I fought voles and moles for years in my old garden. I planted both in ground and raised beds and we tried poison, smoke, electronic devices and NONE of it worked. They would move out for a week or two and were back overnight! So to prevent them from digging into my new raised beds I will be putting down something that they can’t dig through. Good luck on your gopher problem. Try watching “Caddy Shack “ 😂
17:22 Love the pocketcado.🥑😆
the editing and production values on this one are chef's kiss
Wonderful, realistic, informative, inclusive, just awesome!👏
Gophers don't like eucalyptus. Can buy ut in crystal form. Can cover your crops that don't flower with insect netting . Get less bugs. But that broccoli looks amazing!!
Kevin and Jacques,
I too figured out have gophers when they ate my sunflowers and watermelon last season. I thought about digging up all my beds to put in hardware cloth but I don’t plan yo be in my current home for too much longer. Instead I decided on a granular mole repellent that has worked so far. It’s called Molemax and it’s castor oil based. That might work for you if you don’t feel like redoing all of your beds.
”I would eat that” 😂 made me LOL so hard
Also-saw that little Kevin face under Jacques shirt! Your editor has a lot of fun with these videos. Very funny stuff!
I grew up on that Oklahoma diet 😂 lol no fiber. Never thought of it that way.
Ugh. Our New Years 8 inches of snow killed my beautiful brassicas. I was going to hoop them, but 3 weeks of heavy snow, below freezing made that pointless. I wanted to say, I am obsessed with the 16 cell trays for lettuce, cool flowers, and now spicy peppers. They are ideal for small crops and things like lisianthus and phlox that want a literal bog for weeks to germinate. I feel like they are also ideal for slow germ peppers and trying it now. Much less soil to algae (I literally cannot grow Lisianthus any other way). So, so good. I have used the 4 and 6 since it came out, but slept on the 16 for budget reasons last year. Now thanks to the great sales, I have a collection of 16. Now can we please have a narrow, but deep pot, like a roottrainer, but more durable, basically the height of the tall 4 cell, but the size of a 6. :-) Such a great new addition. Also bananas germ on the new Sweet William, like in mere days.
I love all the videos but the videos of you two together? Elite. You guys are so good together.
"Don't look , I'm shy" 🤣
Love refreshing my feed to see a new video from y'all!!
Years ago, my mother had a ponderosa lemon tree. It was under 6' tall but made huge lemons. The grapefruits were embarrassed because those lemons were substantially bigger than they were.
She grew it outside in zone 9, Florida. It would probably do well in your area too.
human hair works for me for the Gophers and deer
Oooh. I have deer issues and lots of hair.... Thanks!
#1 gopher recommendation = Get a barn cat or stray and let it thrive and be loved as an outdoor cat. Feed it enough(not too much), preferable in the garden (near gopher holes) often. Nothing else i have ever done has gotten rid of them without spending too much labor(traps, repellent, etc.). Eventually the cat will bring you gophers in exchange for cat food.
Good luck on Operation Graft
Yeah. It seems odd, but feral cats usually will hunt right after feeding (while they have energy, I guess), so that plan sounds solid.
My Felix was a feral kitten and he is awesome on all rodents, including hares bigger than he is. 🐈⬛. His only failing is in cold wet winters, he doesn't fancy hanging round with his arm down a hole to get the moles, so if it doesn't freeze, they run riot.
@@kirstypollock6811 Who also doesn't want a fun garden pet too? Your cat sound great. My theme is everyone has a job on the farm. Mine is old and trained, if I pick him up and set him next to a gopher hole he understands the assignment :)
You know you're an Epic Gardening nerd when you're super excited about the outdoor fridge's first haul... Yeah, I'm loving the huge harvest and am definitely an epic gardening nerd. When I heard the sirens in the background, I thought your neighbor had changed her mind about letting you harvest the avos. 🚨🥑🚔
Nerds unite
I tried last year, and had to cut it down before we got a long hard freeze last month because my hoop enclosure was too short to fit over them. They were prolific with leafy growth (about 2 feet tall) and had just started to show any signs of heading. They took up way too much room in my raised bed and crowded out my carrots which were far more performant despite the competition for light. I won't use my precious garden space on these space eaters again. I can buy broccoli.
I haven't implemented it myself, but if you're willing to put in the up front effort my bet for gopher control would be coarse gravel. A 6" layer of 1" coarse gravel is difficult enough to dig through that it makes an effective barrier. You definitely want a few feet of buffer around the raised beds though, since gophers can and will walk across the surface a short distance if the temptation is good enough. It exposes them to predation so they don't like it, so the longer the distance they have to cover the less likely they are to do it. Gravel is a solution that in theory will last years, allows water to drain, doesn't involve chemicals, and doesn't require any handling of ex-gophers. It's a big project though, and means you can't do fun stuff like grow things in between the raised beds.
Hey guys - I recall several years ago on Alton Brown’s Food Network show “Good Eats” he showed how to store beets in a container full of sand (sanitized) in a container, then into the refrigerator. I think he had carrots in there too. Apparently it keeps them from drying out.
I have serious broc-envy. I don't even try heading broccoli anymore and just stick with the purple sprouters. And you SO need a Meyer lemon! Talk about perfume...💚
Not too many people on YT make me laugh out loud, but your "Hey, eyes up here!" with the pockets full of avocados...😂
I'm near Mission Bay, and the rental next door is gopher central. We have 3 gopher Hawk traps and every time one of the beasts makes it under the wall into our yard, we gopher hawk it. We can't grow squash, to close to the coast I guess.
Idk why but watching harvesting videos is therapeutic 😊 loved this lol
that "back pain" @ 2:03 😂
Same here in Az they said we haven’t have measurable rain since February 24 is not fun
Broccoli has been my best harvest by far and I can utilize it in so many ways. I don't think I'll ever stop growing them now. Yours are massive though! Mine aren't even close!
2:05 dang! 🔥
I don't know what it is with today? But after mid day it's just sucked today , but let me say. Seeing a new video to watch from you guys has seriously made me happy and given me something to look forward too. I enjoy watching your stuff so much guys , it truly makes me feel happy to know there are other people who love to garden. A moment of serenity in a world of chaos ✨️ thank you Kevin, Jacques and the rest of the team.
Every time I’ve grown broccoli it’s gone yellow, and then I realized I have so much lead in the ground from the lead paint that’s falling off the walls. I can’t grow anything in my garden.
Try using raised beds over a hard surface like concrete as at least the led won't get in your body. But it don't have to be concreate as long as it's not touching the contaminated soil it would be fine. However you really do need to get rid of the lead paint and repaint your walls for the long run
That's so sad. I'm so sorry. Container gardening is the best option here. And just putting some decorative plants in ground.
@@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena I will keep that in mind thank you for your advice
If you live West of the Rockies, be aware you probably aren’t dealing with the same kinds of gophers as we have in the rest of the country. The West coast has a lot of endemic native ground squirrels and other rodents that exist nowhere else on Earth. Even if they look the same, they’re probably a slightly different species or subspecies.
I know sometimes traps are the only way, but be aware endangered species can live in your backyard too.
"Master of the broc" is hilarious to me, as a Dane. "Brok" (pronounced exactly like you said) is Danish for "complaint", so you kind of said that you were the master of complaining 😂
Also, that whole bok choy part had me rolling. Choilettes 🤣What an amazing harvest, overall!
The key to no gophers in raised beds, is to attach hardware cloth to the bottom of the bed before filling it. 😊
California here. Rest of country complains about their humidity but they have clouds and rain. It's so green! We are like living in tinder
The rare late-night Epic drop!
9:03 Potato Kev hangin’ out in Jaque’s waistband 👀
So jealous every time I see the citrus hedge, would love one myself, but I live in England so wouldn’t be very easy to do! I did find 2x avocado trees growing in my compost bin. They’re now inside and one’s doing well, but the other is dying. Don’t think they would fruit over here without lots of light and a heated greenhouse or something beyond my financial means😅
Gophers, squirrels and moles stay away from daffodils. Try planting daffodil bulbs around the outside of your raised beds.
I am up the coast from you but gophers and snails are my worst problems. I use wood boxes with wire bottoms. It is just too sad to lose a whole bunch of plants.
I have rocks at the bottom of my raised beds. No gophers can get yup there. Mine is a wicking bed lined with plastic too. I also put a hose in running water down their hole for awhile. Haven't seen them recently. hopefully they are gone. crossingfingers.
I have brassica envy. Mine never get big. Had a couple of ok romanesco, otherwise, lacking size or taken out by whitefly. I had to work hard to stay on top of the caterpillars and slugs too.
My Gopher recommendation is Cats. I have had 2 cats for the past 13 or so years. My neighbor across the street is being terrorized by gophers, ive NEVER seen them in my yard.
Stainless steel hardware cloth, overlapped by 6-12”, and stainless steel pins, Ft Knox. BUT I am just installing. Proof will take time. 🤨 waiting for my contractors finish so we can build and place the birdies raised beds, backfill paths with shredded bark.
i highly recommend gopher wire over (most) hardware cloth if possible. I had a raised bed that was completely eaten through by gophers and they got to my artichokes :( When i rebuilt with gopher wire i haven't had any problems
As someone who lives near OKC, can confirm. The selection of fruit and veg is sad out here 🤣☠️.
Also, I’m curious why Jacque was out here👀. What I would’ve given to meet THE garden hermit!🤣🖤🖤
Gophers: I've built mini decks above ground to place my raised beds on top of. Extreme but effective. They have found their way to my in ground garden bed. I think my garlic has detoured them from eating anything.
Also…do you ever make potpourri with all the flowers, herbs and fruit peels?
My neighborhood had a gopher and rat problem until we moved in with our cat. Then my neighbors started getting cats. We only get a gopher occasionally now and it gets caught pretty quickly.
Another awesome video guys, cheers from a HOT Australian summer.
Great harvest guys 👍👍
I'm inspired! Is it too late to start growing broccoli just north of you in Corona? The gopherhawk is the only thing I found that works on gophers, but nothing that prevents them other than lining your bed in hardware cloth or planting trees in chicken wire bags.
In Nepal there's a fermented greens food called GUNDRUK. Beet greens would be wonderful for it! Maybe Jacques and Kevin could try it some day!
Such a fun video, you guys! Keep it up. Here in Minnesota, I am watching you with major fruit and avocado envy. I'm fighting chipmunks that burrow in my raised beds. Would love to know what others are doing for pest control.
Wow. 🤩 What a wonderful harvest from the garden. 🥦🍋🍊
omg use that citrus peel/oil to make Oleo-Saccharum for flavoring things! just add sugar and time!
We've tried!
Citrus oil is one of the oils you'd put in old timey diffusers and candle heated scent spreaders
I hate gophers 😫 My garden looks like a war zone from flooding the holes and my dog digging them up. She is my secret weapon, but this one is proving Cadyshack tricky. I had a gopherhawk at one time, but I bent it the first time using it. You have to be careful in setting it. I feel like all the gophers are reproducing and I'm losing the battle. My raised beds have hardware cloth under them, but I want to put stuff in the ground like watermelon and pumpkins and last year the gophers destroyed them all. Even my yellow squash got taken out.
This thing is drippin 😂. Love the word play 🔥
Bugs got my broccoli and cabbage. I think I planted them too late .. I will try again, in a new spot, earlier this year and I will plant more kale this year.. kale did well and I like it in soup
Try using a light fabric “floating row cover” over your brassicas…good luck and yeah , kale is the BEST!
Damn, I expected that thumbnail to be forced perspective😂
You guys are too cute tacking and doing in the garden 🤩🎉❤
4:56 lmao love that edit
Get a Gopher Hawk, that’s the only thing that worker for me! 😊
9:03 potato kevin 😂
16:55 I didn't know you could grow Coke cans...! 😆
The only way we would have a good crop of anything is by having drip irrigation
I think I’m going to try it one more time and if it doesn’t work, I give up!
What bok choi seeds are those. ! ??? everything ive tried are. Way too small
where can i buy those ?
My favorite gardening guys!
Oh you two make me smile.
Would hardware cloth at the bottom of the bed keep gophers and other varmints - like voles - out? Voles are our nemesis here.
Snakes would be my answer to gophers…..know where to get some? And do you epicgardeners sell praying mantis cocoons? Thanks and cheers
Jaques' side potato😂
What did you do for your broccoli?
Im never growing broccoli that is $7 for less than 20 seeds again, thats for certain. 🤦♀️👀
Wait until store bought broccoli is over seven dollars a head ! It happens every year now in our neck of the woods at least twice a year.
OH you're killing me with not eating the beet greens! Get those lovelies in a pot with some water, salt and a slice of hickory smoked bacon and cook it until it is almost soup - it will melt in your mouth goodness! Beet greens are by far better than spinach in my opinion. That's soul food right there!
Ya'lls commentary is killing me 😂
Loved this video! That broccoli is my goal
What do you spray on the sprouts ?
Did you find that the wooden orchard harvest box was good for storing? Storage is my biggest issue currently as I don’t have a cold room or covered outdoor shady area.
Yeah it's nice!
Soak your broccoli in salt water for 10+ minutes and the critters evacuate asap.