Raccoons, bobcats and foxes are your best bet for egg eaters. You have a beautiful yard and should feel proud of what you’ve accomplished. Where there is life there is also death no matter how hard you try. 💝
I was thinking skunk or crow. It's odd that it left exactly one egg. Raccoon definitely a possibility - It would be interesting to put a game camera up and see if it comes back for the last egg.
I have a hummingbird who made 2 nests under our awning (1 on the large wooden dream chaser) near our sliding door. We keep her and her eggs/chics protected. She has a special calling when there's an intruder like a squirrel or cat. She is on her 3rd brood.
This year, there's a robin nest under the overhang for the covered porch. 3 tiny babies are being tended all day every day by the parents. It's so precious.
Awww! Must be so cute!! I have a Robin friend who comes back every year, except for last year when all that smoke came down from Canada wild fires. He/she? Takes baths in the bird bath just 10 feet away from me and listens when I talk, even sometimes it gets closer than that. It had been a fledgling in our yard and grew comfortable with me, they say birds remember faces and people.
Tuck is so cute eating his veggies! My dog loves cucumbers. Last year I grew him his own vine of beit alpha cukes. He loved being able to harvest his own cucumber for an afternoon snack! It was so funny watching a Siberian Husky gently biting a cucumber off the vine!
"Even though things can feel devastating at times, life always comes back. It's so resilient." My fave message from the tragedy! Great message for the garden and for life. Hearts for Tuck! ❤❤❤❤❤
I fell in love with Tuck since I saw him in one of your first videos a few years ago, but now I have grown to actually miss seeing him. A little bit anxious every time I see your new video. I'm glad he always looks healthy. He is definitely very much loved by you, James
Please set up some trail cameras now that some wildlife is trying to move in! Side note: it could have been a squirrel that got into the eggs. So good luck to birds and loads of love to you and Tuck.
Spring is like this. There's so much life, and also death. Where I live, bunnies and turtles become very active because it's Spring. I love them all, but then I see them on the road. It's so sad.
Good news James, it looks like the duck eggs actually hatched and didnt get eaten. I can see from the way the egg shells are in pieces. I cant say the same about the doves case, but at least she is trying again!
He’s living his best life for sure 😃. I can’t wait until I can have a yard large enough to have my own food forest for my little doggies to hang out in 😊.
Share this video if you enjoyed it! Timestamps 00:00 intro 00:11 Before Tragedy Struck 00:46 Lollo Rosso Lettuce 01:25 Farao Cabbage 01:40 Tragedy in the Garden 03:16 Destroyed Morning Dove Nest 03:50 New Morning Dove Nest 04:15 Tuck in the Garden 04:42 Harvesting Celery 5:06 How the Garden is Growing 06:32 Tuck Eating Peas 07:44 Showing Plant we are Excited about 08:40 Huge Persimmon Tree Flowering 10:26 Robin Feed Baby Birds 10:48 Final Thoughts Checkout the Shop! teamgrow.us
Hi James! The Food Forest is looking absolutely unbelievable. You have inspired and helped me very much with my own garden. The question is, how do you eat everything that you produce? My wife and I have a small garden and really have to work hard to eat fresh and can alot for Winter. You are an inspiration! Thanks and hello to Tuck! 💗
It’s always heartbreaking to see devastation like this. But even the predators need to eat. We’re all riding this great circle. I want to protect everything but that’s just not doable. Hi Tuck! 💜
I am just amazed at the cauliflower and cabbage ready to harvest! When to you plant these? How long does it take to grow that big? Thanks James and Tuck.
we ❤Tuck! Lets go! It got wicked in my garden with some hail we were not prepared for :( but the tomatoes and peppers are recovering. Lettuce already looks like it never got devastated. One day my garden will look like the food forest!
The circle of life. Hope the duck can still set another nest this year. I felt the same way a few years ago when the squirrels got into a robin’s nest in our tree. 😢 Your garden looks amazing again this year. Our city is on level 4 (highest) water restrictions this week so I’m saving whatever grey water I can to hopefully get them through until the problem is fixed. The neighborhood squirrel keeps digging up some of the plants. Mischievous little so and so. Oh well covering them up wherever I can and hoping for the best. ❤❤❤for Tuck. I wish I could have a little guardian in my garden like him. Give him a little ear scratch for me and tell him he’s a good boy.
You are absolutely AMAZING (and Tuck)!!! I adore you both!!! I feel your pain about the eggs and things because the SAME things happen in our garden ! You both are amazing!! 🥰🌻🦋🐞
I am with Tuck on the peas. I was eating them with my husband this morning. They are so good when they are fresh and cool. I started growing a food forest 3 years ago. It takes a lot of time to get everything growing but it is worth it.
Awesome food forest ! Poor Mallard mama and her nest ... you need a night camera to catch the culprit so you know what did it ??, Raccoon, skunk, snake ?? At least the mama's got away. Good boy Tuck !
Maybe set up a couple of trail cameras to see what critters are coming in to the garden. It would be interesting to know and what their path is to possibly figure out how to keep them away from the Dove nests. Anyhow, great video as always! ❤Tuck!
Show off…I’m envious. I started my seeds in April, and nothing is anywhere near to harvesting, whereas your yard is like a Garden of Eden…so plush and abundant!!! I live in Jersey too. But I am not a successful gardener like you. No matter how hard I try each year, my garden yields very little if at all. But I will keep trying because I have to.
I had a possum tearing up my garden and trying to get to my chickens. I found out by way of field cam that it was a possum. The Cam really showed what was happening in my garden all through the night. I also spotted rats everywhere and found out I had an infestation of them. That is what brought the possum around. The field cam helps me manage my garden even when I am asleep. It took almost 2 months to get the rats under control. 👍
We had lots of trouble with squirrels and chipmunks digging up my garden dislodging all of my plants. Once we started trapping we are able to keep down the damage. Now it is raccoons who come out at night. Haven’t decided what to do about them yet. My garden-is too small to forfeit to animals. Thing is a neighbor feeds them in her garage and lets her cats roam all night!
@@NatureScapesStudioBeing a handy human, I am making raised bed cages similar to what James has used and keep other areas planted with wildlife food. The neighbor's adopted cats have been sleeping in 100 degree heat in another partly shady, uncovered raised bed and I've started leaving water out for them. We have tomatoes in quantity there for the first time ever, probably in great part due to them relieving pest (i.e. others who eat what we eat lol) pressure and tulle over the fruits. It's rough out there and what comes around goes around. I do my best to be kind. After all, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
hey, you feeding tuck from your garden is really great, most people don't realize that the "normal" kibble or dog food isn't good for them, they can develop a lot of issues eating those foods but tuck eating fresh food is amazing, his immune system must be top tier
Spend a day checking your fences and make sure you don't have tree crawling snakes coming in from the neighbor's yard. Make sure they don't have a burrough under your greenhouse.
I've said before, there are all sorts of security cameras with infra-red that you could use. Seeing the wild-life at night would make some good vids for you too 🙂
I'm on my 4th season, you are so correct when you life comes in more every year. I'm enjoying all your videos, learning more every time. Now my 2 dogs come gardening with me. They get to do their own gardening❤
We had a hazelnut at our old house. Every time they would get to the point yours are, the squirrels would descend on the branches like Cirque du Soleil aerialists and harvest them.
Just came in from the garden, nice to sit and watch your videos. We often follow birds nests around out yard and house, it's always sad when something gets the eggs. But so much fun when the ones that make hatch. After finding out the horrible news in Idaho (cutting many farmers off from water, for the environment 😳💩) I've been busy ordering more short season potatoes to plant everywhere. When they tell us there will be a worldwide famine, they then do their best to make sure it happens. ❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck, the boss dog!
I love that your garden has doves, ducks, and other birds. I put out bird feeders for doves and other birds like magpies. I also have a rat, which bothers the birds, but the feeders are rodent-proof. He trolls under the feeder. He's being ousted. I also have a squirrel, but it's not aggressive with the birds. I hope you don't have a snake, tho. Looks great. Pats to Tuck ♥💙💜💚💛
What are you coating your fruit trees with? Your food Forrest is beautiful. I had a food Forrest but in 2014 a huge chunk of it burned. I have been trying to restore it ever since. My orchard looks terrible. Tuck is so darn cute! Have a blessed day! Wendy❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸
This week's discoveries in my garden: Black Phoebes on bug patrol in the garden; male hummers chasing away other males from the feeder; Brown Towhees building nest under the eaves; a tiger swallowtail caterpillar on my dill.
It's always sad to see egg\s or baby birds that have been lost. I've found some birds in my yard and I'm pretty sure it was my dogs. Honey crisp apples are my favorite. My tree in young but maybe next year I'll get a few.
Thanks for sharing this. I just went out to the raised bed and discovered that something had eaten my spinach plant down to the ground. It also ate or broke the pea plants at their base, so I lost all but two pea shoots. I was guessing squirrels, but now I think I may have a rabbit enjoying my little bed. Sigh!
A cockatoo bit the top out of my best tomato so my husband put a plastic hawk on top of the pole to scare them away. The cockatoos have taken notice but the kookaburra isn’t the least bit worried.
The diversity in your garden is amazing. I love how you call them "a form of life"- I was originally from Jersey too and called them something else. Probably a raccoon got at the eggs. The garden seems pretty intact, so the fencing must be keeping out deer and ground hogs- its really difficult to keep out a determined raccoon- probably more than one. I love your optimism and perspective- it can be really frustrating dealing with these tragedies, but it's all part of the gardening discipline. Move forward, concentrate on your successes, learn from your mistakes and don't take nature too personally.
I came across a cracked egg that was in the middle of nowhere today with a half formed bird in it. The birds we have here are at the summer pasture we are in competition with themselves.
So happy for you to have such a beautiful garden with such life, even amongst the tragic moments. But happy for us we get to follow and see the progression, and literally see the fruits of your labor. It is amazing to see the bounty!
I had a robin build a nest in one of my espaliered apple trees. It broke my heart one morning to come out and see her nest all ripped to shreds and the broken egg shells on the ground. I suspect a raccoon was the culprit. On a happy note, we have another robin's nest on a blade of our outdoor ceiling fan with hungry babies and a nest of barn swallows in our alpaca barn. We usually get those every year. It is so wonderful to watch them grow so fast and then fly off to start their own life in the garden.
I work in a walled garden and it seems that once ducks lay eggs they will come back ever year to try again, mallard ducks seem to be set in their ways and could potentially try again. If you see the males hanging around it probably means they want to try again. I note these wildlife events in the sowing record as its a nice addition to look back on, including first butterfly spotted, house martins, stoats etc etc. If you have a wildlife pond in your garden its an excellent way to entice ducks and its super cool to see the baby ducks follow mama when they hatch.
I grew the best Bak Choi, Napa cabbage-one at 7lbs, broccoli and now cauliflower this spring. I started mid April under a low tunnel. I have two beds with heavy clay soil that brassicas love. It was a lot of work covering, ect. but great turnout. We harvested broc already. Our season in WI is too short to succession sow and once the hot day hit the Bak Choy was ready to bolt.
My dad calls Tuck "that vegetarian dog" when we watch your videos. No way young boss would do that. Sorry you had that happen its kind of a bummer but remember, your garden does a lot to restore some balance to nature
Aw geez, sorry about the duck nest. We had a similar thing happen a few years ago where the ducks made a nest in our front garden and one day our dog spied it and chased the duck away and when she jumped out of the nest she broke the eggs with her feet. We felt so bad about it. :(
I wonder how old you are. Your skin and energy says below 30 for sure man. I found you years ago on a gardening kick, let it go for the last two years. You were the FIRST person I looked up when I got started again. Bless
Aw poor ducks. Circle of life I suppose. I have been finding dead squirrels in my yard lately- I think one of my neighbors is setting out poison or something. Love Tuck
Everything looks so different from when I visited. It’s funny how huge it looks when everything is filled out and lush. Amazing.
Love your channel and your garden!! Just rewatched your interview with James last night!
@@suzi_in_zone6B thank you! I appreciate it!
You and James are my two favorite channels to follow.
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Mine also. NC here.
Always fun to see my favorite channels supporting each other 🥰
I love watching this channel because of tuck eating veggies
Let's Gooo!!!
Lol canine mukbang!
Raccoons, bobcats and foxes are your best bet for egg eaters. You have a beautiful yard and should feel proud of what you’ve accomplished. Where there is life there is also death no matter how hard you try. 💝
Not so sure those are likely in his neighborhood. I was thinking Blue Jay's would do that too, or a neighbors cat.
Possums love eggs too, so it could be a number of animals.
What about squirrels🐿️?
I would say possums, raccoons or bobcats. He has a tall fence around his yard. So it has to be something that can get over it.
I was thinking skunk or crow. It's odd that it left exactly one egg. Raccoon definitely a possibility - It would be interesting to put a game camera up and see if it comes back for the last egg.
I have a hummingbird who made 2 nests under our awning (1 on the large wooden dream chaser) near our sliding door. We keep her and her eggs/chics protected. She has a special calling when there's an intruder like a squirrel or cat. She is on her 3rd brood.
This year, there's a robin nest under the overhang for the covered porch. 3 tiny babies are being tended all day every day by the parents. It's so precious.
Awww! Must be so cute!! I have a Robin friend who comes back every year, except for last year when all that smoke came down from Canada wild fires. He/she? Takes baths in the bird bath just 10 feet away from me and listens when I talk, even sometimes it gets closer than that. It had been a fledgling in our yard and grew comfortable with me, they say birds remember faces and people.
Tuck is so cute eating his veggies! My dog loves cucumbers. Last year I grew him his own vine of beit alpha cukes. He loved being able to harvest his own cucumber for an afternoon snack! It was so funny watching a Siberian Husky gently biting a cucumber off the vine!
I have a Lab/Malamute mix and cucumbers are definitely his favorite!!!
"Even though things can feel devastating at times, life always comes back. It's so resilient." My fave message from the tragedy! Great message for the garden and for life. Hearts for Tuck! ❤❤❤❤❤
Nature can be beautiful and brutal at the same time. Your positivity is inspiring, thanks for all the great gardening tips through the years.
I fell in love with Tuck since I saw him in one of your first videos a few years ago, but now I have grown to actually miss seeing him. A little bit anxious every time I see your new video. I'm glad he always looks healthy. He is definitely very much loved by you, James
Your passion for gardening is palpable and magical. Such a wonderful thing to be part of!!
Please set up some trail cameras now that some wildlife is trying to move in! Side note: it could have been a squirrel that got into the eggs. So good luck to birds and loads of love to you and Tuck.
Squirrel isn’t going to suck eggs. That’s a coon most likely
half the joy of gardening is the critters that come around because it's such a pleasant space to hang out in.
Love how you talk about the bigger picture in life through gardening ☺️
Spring is like this. There's so much life, and also death. Where I live, bunnies and turtles become very active because it's Spring. I love them all, but then I see them on the road. It's so sad.
Good news James, it looks like the duck eggs actually hatched and didnt get eaten. I can see from the way the egg shells are in pieces. I cant say the same about the doves case, but at least she is trying again!
It just occurred to me. Tuck is so spoiled! What a backyard to explore in for the Tuck mister! ♥♥
He’s living his best life for sure 😃. I can’t wait until I can have a yard large enough to have my own food forest for my little doggies to hang out in 😊.
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Timestamps
00:00 intro
00:11 Before Tragedy Struck
00:46 Lollo Rosso Lettuce
01:25 Farao Cabbage
01:40 Tragedy in the Garden
03:16 Destroyed Morning Dove Nest
03:50 New Morning Dove Nest
04:15 Tuck in the Garden
04:42 Harvesting Celery
5:06 How the Garden is Growing
06:32 Tuck Eating Peas
07:44 Showing Plant we are Excited about
08:40 Huge Persimmon Tree Flowering
10:26 Robin Feed Baby Birds
10:48 Final Thoughts
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What an amazing way to wake up each morning. To get a cup & go out & check out such beauty!! 👵🏻👩🌾❣️
This is the best gardening channel I've found. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. 😊
Hi James! The Food Forest is looking absolutely unbelievable. You have inspired and helped me very much with my own garden. The question is, how do you eat everything that you produce? My wife and I have a small garden and really have to work hard to eat fresh and can alot for Winter. You are an inspiration! Thanks and hello to Tuck! 💗
Those celery greens have my wheels turning thinking about soup season
Love your enthusiasm James. I find myself bringing people around my yard the same way you bring us. The excitement is contagious.😊
Crows are known to eat the eggs from mallard and other nests. So sad. Your garden looks beautiful and filled with life.
It’s always heartbreaking to see devastation like this. But even the predators need to eat. We’re all riding this great circle. I want to protect everything but that’s just not doable. Hi Tuck! 💜
It is always blessing. Thanks for sharing James, Tuck ❤❤ and to your bro for recording! ✌️😎
Your food forest is just so beautiful and abundant! Everything is growing so well!
I am just amazed at the cauliflower and cabbage ready to harvest! When to you plant these? How long does it take to grow that big? Thanks James and Tuck.
I presume he gets all those out early spring since they are little more cold tolerant. And how long depends on variety. Happy growing
Outstanding garden James and Tuck is a blessing!❤❤❤
I’m new to gardening and I LOVE your channel! Learning so much and love Tuck and seeing him munch on veggies😂
Your food forest is an amazing contrast to the ecological dead zone that is a lawn
we ❤Tuck! Lets go! It got wicked in my garden with some hail we were not prepared for :( but the tomatoes and peppers are recovering. Lettuce already looks like it never got devastated. One day my garden will look like the food forest!
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Man, I miss that intro.
The circle of life. Hope the duck can still set another nest this year. I felt the same way a few years ago when the squirrels got into a robin’s nest in our tree. 😢
Your garden looks amazing again this year. Our city is on level 4 (highest) water restrictions this week so I’m saving whatever grey water I can to hopefully get them through until the problem is fixed. The neighborhood squirrel keeps digging up some of the plants. Mischievous little so and so. Oh well covering them up wherever I can and hoping for the best.
❤❤❤for Tuck. I wish I could have a little guardian in my garden like him. Give him a little ear scratch for me and tell him he’s a good boy.
Love for Tuck ❤❤❤
Beautiful garden
As long as Tuck is Ok there is no tragedy!🐶🐕🥰🙏
I love how the trees makes spots of shade for the garden. It adds a coziness to everything ❤❤❤
You are absolutely AMAZING (and Tuck)!!! I adore you both!!! I feel your pain about the eggs and things because the SAME things happen in our garden !
You both are amazing!! 🥰🌻🦋🐞
I so enjoyed watching how excited you are about your Garden...keep up the good work it is beautiful . Blessing to you
That's so sad. 😔 I love ducks. That makes me sad. I'm sorry for the mourning dove too. I hope the other one makes it.
I am with Tuck on the peas. I was eating them with my husband this morning. They are so good when they are fresh and cool. I started growing a food forest 3 years ago. It takes a lot of time to get everything growing but it is worth it.
Awesome food forest ! Poor Mallard mama and her nest ... you need a night camera to catch the culprit so you know what did it ??, Raccoon, skunk, snake ?? At least the mama's got away. Good boy Tuck !
You truly have the whole circle of life in your garden. Hatch, match and dispatch in one small space. Sending more hearts to Tuck ♥♥♥♥
The garden is looking truly awesome, so healthy!
So loved seeing your beautiful garden! (And Tuck 💕)
Love how you talk about the bigger picture 📷 in ❤❤😘😘😘❤👍👍👍😊 10:33
Love your garden, full of life ❤❤❤❤❤
I love to see the birds in my backyard too. I saw a nest and one day the nest was on the ground so I hope they moved and weren’t harmed.
Maybe set up a couple of trail cameras to see what critters are coming in to the garden. It would be interesting to know and what their path is to possibly figure out how to keep them away from the Dove nests. Anyhow, great video as always! ❤Tuck!
Show off…I’m envious. I started my seeds in April, and nothing is anywhere near to harvesting, whereas your yard is like a Garden of Eden…so plush and abundant!!! I live in Jersey too. But I am not a successful gardener like you. No matter how hard I try each year, my garden yields very little if at all. But I will keep trying because I have to.
You have a beautiful food forest! I’m sorry about the birds eggs 😢
I had a possum tearing up my garden and trying to get to my chickens. I found out by way of field cam that it was a possum. The Cam really showed what was happening in my garden all through the night. I also spotted rats everywhere and found out I had an infestation of them. That is what brought the possum around. The field cam helps me manage my garden even when I am asleep. It took almost 2 months to get the rats under control. 👍
I absolutely love your garden. ❤ you have to be careful. There is some type of predator roaming around at night. You should get a camera.
Good idea!
“A totally different fruit” FACTS!
Set up a metal cage trap. It's most likely a squirrel. But could be other rodents or nocturnal animals. Racoons, possums, rats, etc.
We had lots of trouble with squirrels and chipmunks digging up my garden dislodging all of my plants. Once we started trapping we are able to keep down the damage. Now it is raccoons who come out at night. Haven’t decided what to do about them yet. My garden-is too small to forfeit to animals. Thing is a neighbor feeds them in her garage and lets her cats roam all night!
We're putting a cage up tonight. We had a bird that had 4 eggs and a raccoon got them. So sad.
Trap raccoons too.
@@NatureScapesStudioBeing a handy human, I am making raised bed cages similar to what James has used and keep other areas planted with wildlife food. The neighbor's adopted cats have been sleeping in 100 degree heat in another partly shady, uncovered raised bed and I've started leaving water out for them. We have tomatoes in quantity there for the first time ever, probably in great part due to them relieving pest (i.e. others who eat what we eat lol) pressure and tulle over the fruits. It's rough out there and what comes around goes around. I do my best to be kind. After all, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
@@NatureScapesStudiotrap and release elsewhere.
❤ Tuck !! Hes seriously the best!!
hey, you feeding tuck from your garden is really great, most people don't realize that the "normal" kibble or dog food isn't good for them, they can develop a lot of issues eating those foods but tuck eating fresh food is amazing, his immune system must be top tier
Awwww. Poor duckies. ❤️🩹
I do love all the life the garden brings. 💕
❤❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck
Spend a day checking your fences and make sure you don't have tree crawling snakes coming in from the neighbor's yard. Make sure they don't have a burrough under your greenhouse.
I've said before, there are all sorts of security cameras with infra-red that you could use. Seeing the wild-life at night would make some good vids for you too 🙂
I'm on my 4th season, you are so correct when you life comes in more every year. I'm enjoying all your videos, learning more every time. Now my 2 dogs come gardening with me. They get to do their own gardening❤
We had a hazelnut at our old house. Every time they would get to the point yours are, the squirrels would descend on the branches like Cirque du Soleil aerialists and harvest them.
Just came in from the garden, nice to sit and watch your videos. We often follow birds nests around out yard and house, it's always sad when something gets the eggs. But so much fun when the ones that make hatch. After finding out the horrible news in Idaho (cutting many farmers off from water, for the environment 😳💩) I've been busy ordering more short season potatoes to plant everywhere. When they tell us there will be a worldwide famine, they then do their best to make sure it happens. ❤❤❤❤❤ for Tuck, the boss dog!
I love that your garden has doves, ducks, and other birds. I put out bird feeders for doves and other birds like magpies. I also have a rat, which bothers the birds, but the feeders are rodent-proof. He trolls under the feeder. He's being ousted. I also have a squirrel, but it's not aggressive with the birds. I hope you don't have a snake, tho. Looks great. Pats to Tuck ♥💙💜💚💛
Your food forest looks amazing! Its doing so good, very impressive for early June.
It’s sad to see that happen, it could have been crows,
or possums they’re both known to eat eggs.
Wow! Just beautiful great job, it’s absolutely stunning. Keep up the great work
What are you coating your fruit trees with? Your food Forrest is beautiful. I had a food Forrest but in 2014 a huge chunk of it burned. I have been trying to restore it ever since. My orchard looks terrible. Tuck is so darn cute! Have a blessed day! Wendy❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸
Your energy for food foresting is contagious ty
I love Tuck !! Your food forest is amazing! I want so badly to have one and hopefully someday I will have . Thank you for sharing
This week's discoveries in my garden: Black Phoebes on bug patrol in the garden; male hummers chasing away other males from the feeder; Brown Towhees building nest under the eaves; a tiger swallowtail caterpillar on my dill.
The food forest is looking epic! That swiss chard is crazy 🤯
It's always sad to see egg\s or baby birds that have been lost. I've found some birds in my yard and I'm pretty sure it was my dogs.
Honey crisp apples are my favorite. My tree in young but maybe next year I'll get a few.
Years ago, my beagles would ravage the strawberry beds. When the blackberries ripened, they ripped down the canes and ate them.
Thanks for sharing this. I just went out to the raised bed and discovered that something had eaten my spinach plant down to the ground. It also ate or broke the pea plants at their base, so I lost all but two pea shoots. I was guessing squirrels, but now I think I may have a rabbit enjoying my little bed. Sigh!
Thank you for all the information that you share. I love the content of your videos and the energy that you put on doing them. Tucker is so cute :)
A cockatoo bit the top out of my best tomato so my husband put a plastic hawk on top of the pole to scare them away. The cockatoos have taken notice but the kookaburra isn’t the least bit worried.
Oh my goodness that's sad. Tuck the Boss looking wonderful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The diversity in your garden is amazing. I love how you call them "a form of life"- I was originally from Jersey too and called them something else. Probably a raccoon got at the eggs. The garden seems pretty intact, so the fencing must be keeping out deer and ground hogs- its really difficult to keep out a determined raccoon- probably more than one. I love your optimism and perspective- it can be really frustrating dealing with these tragedies, but it's all part of the gardening discipline. Move forward, concentrate on your successes, learn from your mistakes and don't take nature too personally.
I came across a cracked egg that was in the middle of nowhere today with a half formed bird in it.
The birds we have here are at the summer pasture we are in competition with themselves.
So happy for you to have such a beautiful garden with such life, even amongst the tragic moments. But happy for us we get to follow and see the progression, and literally see the fruits of your labor. It is amazing to see the bounty!
Thank you for showing all the parts of life in a garden. It's important to see all aspects
I had a robin build a nest in one of my espaliered apple trees. It broke my heart one morning to come out and see her nest all ripped to shreds and the broken egg shells on the ground. I suspect a raccoon was the culprit. On a happy note, we have another robin's nest on a blade of our outdoor ceiling fan with hungry babies and a nest of barn swallows in our alpaca barn. We usually get those every year. It is so wonderful to watch them grow so fast and then fly off to start their own life in the garden.
Always learning something new from your videos…and always love seeing Tuck getting his fresh garden snack!😊
Hey James, looks like some scale is forming on your grafted pear. You can blast it off with a sprayer.
❤❤❤❤ for Tuck and many garden blessings!
I love to watch your joy
I work in a walled garden and it seems that once ducks lay eggs they will come back ever year to try again, mallard ducks seem to be set in their ways and could potentially try again. If you see the males hanging around it probably means they want to try again. I note these wildlife events in the sowing record as its a nice addition to look back on, including first butterfly spotted, house martins, stoats etc etc. If you have a wildlife pond in your garden its an excellent way to entice ducks and its super cool to see the baby ducks follow mama when they hatch.
I grew the best Bak Choi, Napa cabbage-one at 7lbs, broccoli and now cauliflower this spring. I started mid April under a low tunnel. I have two beds with heavy clay soil that brassicas love. It was a lot of work covering, ect. but great turnout. We harvested broc already. Our season in WI is too short to succession sow and once the hot day hit the Bak Choy was ready to bolt.
My dad calls Tuck "that vegetarian dog" when we watch your videos. No way young boss would do that. Sorry you had that happen its kind of a bummer but remember, your garden does a lot to restore some balance to nature
maybe add bird nest boxes for small, medium and duck sized guests 😊💖🙋♀️
Here in SoCal the egg eaters are usually crows.🐦⬛
Aw geez, sorry about the duck nest. We had a similar thing happen a few years ago where the ducks made a nest in our front garden and one day our dog spied it and chased the duck away and when she jumped out of the nest she broke the eggs with her feet. We felt so bad about it. :(
Great video. No grapes for dogs, folks! They can cause renal failure even in small quantities. ❤️
Wow. I'm on Long Island and my garden is just getting started. Yours is in full bloom!
Love that u have birds nesting there. Love your videos and enthusiasm 😊
I wonder how old you are. Your skin and energy says below 30 for sure man. I found you years ago on a gardening kick, let it go for the last two years. You were the FIRST person I looked up when I got started again. Bless
TUCKY!!! ❤❤❤
James impress immediatly with secateurs😊
Aw poor ducks. Circle of life I suppose. I have been finding dead squirrels in my yard lately- I think one of my neighbors is setting out poison or something.
Love Tuck
If you have several gray squirrels, they will go after bird nest. Once I got rid of the squirrels, I finally had birds.