protection from wallabies?

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  1. melinda

    melinda Junior Member

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    hi everyone,

    this weekend i plan to plant some tube stock trees in my garden. we have loads of wallabies on our property and i am wondering if there is a way i can to protect my plants from them without having to erect a physcial barrier?

    cheers
    mel :roll:
     
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    Hi Melinda,

    In my experience a physical barrier is the only way. I have heard if you stand by them and wave your arms they won't come near, but you might get tired after a while.

    A friend used to have a horn that blew every half hour that worked for a short period of time, but then they just got used to it.

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  3. Steve J.

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    Mel

    I don't have wallabies or kangaroos, farmers shot em all cause they compete with the dairy cows, actually they chopped all the trees down for the same reason........ but I digress, I do have rabbits and hares though and the only thing (other than Pb) that stops them nibbling my native tube-stock is a liberal sprinkling of Blood and Bone around the natives, they hate it and my planting efforts have been saved from demise. Now I know just enough about biology to know that rabbits / hares and Wallabies are different shapes, sizes and colours but it may just work. Lets face it at $2 a tube you need to try anything. I figure the smell of death (ie the blood and bone) scares them??? Crazy theory No 7.

    Steve
     
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    Dont forget the urine Therapy


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  5. melinda

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    urine therapy- as someone we all know & hate would say, ' please explain?'

    melinda
     
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    yeah well.. Long stiry. But there have been many discussions on the use of urine.. From animal deterant, to weed killer.

    That about somes it up.. Unless you ahve been lurking for the last 2 - 3 months you have missed it :)
     
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    Hey melinda you chucking off at my mate Pauline....lol
    Have seen a product called D-Ter at the ABC Garden Show...it's a magnesium product supposed to be real good at keeping off animals from trees am going to order some next week through Garden Express the mail order bulb company. Works the same as urine/blood and bone concept the animals dont like it taste/smell/vibration or whatever. Not too expensive given the amount of trees and vines i've lost over last few monthes. Fences dont seem much of a deterrent to rabbits or hares either.
    Cheers
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    G'day,

    I have been using (and getting made) plastic guards for the purpose of protecting trees from rabbits, hares, wallabies and kangaroos for about 8 years now.

    I first started using a product called EasyGrow and then they went out of business so I got permission from the designer to make them myself. Accordingly we made about 50 000 of them and they were fantastic. 2 years ago I got another company to make my own design and it is even better and will probably last for about 10-15 years - enough for about 10-15 cycles of use at least. I got two lots made: 1200mm high and 2000mm high x 110mm diameter x 1.1mm UV stabilised plastic thickness.

    Su Dennett & David Holmgren (https://www.holmgren.com.au) of Melliodora in Hepburn put these guards to trial at their property to protect oaks from their goats and was rapt with the results. Meeting her recently she asked for some more. Apart from their protection benefits these guards radically increase the growth rate and improve the form of otherwise slow growing and poor form species.

    I haven't updated the "Trees" section on my website for a couple of years though I have have photos on there of the EasyGrow guards on there to check out. Otherwise following is one of the 800mm guards protecting a Quercus suber (cork oak) at Geelong Grammar.


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    There are similar products on the market that you may wish to try, as I am not in a position at this stage to market my elite guards. If I stay still for long enough then this may well change.

    You could try products like GroGuard https://www.groguard.com.au/1.htm
    , DM Plastics https://www.dmplastics.com.au/ , Preview Plastics https://www.preview.com.au/Products/treegrds.htm and Tubex https://www.tubex.com/tech_choose.htm

    Have other many other photos that I am happy to share, as this is a pet subject of mine I have a lot of experience with.

    Ciao,

    Daz
     

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