On this week's two-minute tip how to keep the critters from nibbling on your
vegetable garden.
So right behind me here I've got a row of collards that I just
planted from transplants it's the tiger variety of collards and from past
experiences I know that in fall time of the year with my fall garden I typically
have a lot of pressure especially from rabbits coming in and nibbling on my
garden and just eating these transplants down to the stem. So I want to be
proactive here and go ahead and put something on these plants to keep the
rabbits from eating them I don't want to wait till they start munching on a few and
then try to stop them I want to be proactive and try to keep it from
happening in the first place so there's quite a few products out there on the
market to keep critters from eating on your garden there's a ground sprays
there's foliar sprays there's a lot of them out there and we've done some
testing ourselves and also looked at some testing from other sources and the
best thing we found is this stuff right here called Bobbex now this is a foliar
spray typically the research suggests that those ground sprays don't really
work that well. These foliar sprays work a lot better and you're gonna spray this
right on the plant now you don't want to spray this on anything that's almost
ready to harvest. You want to use this early on in the life of the plant and
you condition those animals to believe that whatever they're trying to eat
doesn't taste very good so as soon as I put those transplants in the ground I'll
go ahead and spray this all over the leaves and hopefully we don't ever have
a problem with them eating the leaves because it doesn't taste good to them.
This Bobbex here mixes at a ratio of about 16 ounces to a gallon so this that
comes in a jug here is concentrated and we have this in court sizes and also
this half gallon size right here we also have a Bobbex that's for deer this one
here specifically is for rabbits, squirrels, smaller animals. Another good
thing about this Bobbex is that it has a sticking agent to it so it's not going
to wash off in the rain so if you spray it and then get a rain you don't have to
worry about turning around and spraying it right again I usually apply this
about once every week or two early in the life of those plants to try to keep any
damage from happening then so don't be fooled by a lot of the imitators on the
market get a product that actually works and this Bobbex right here works
really well. Spray it early in the life of the plant, spray it every couple weeks
or so and keep those pesky critters from munching on your vegetable garden. Hope
you enjoyed this week's two-minute tip. We'll see you next week.