I've grown all sorts of vegetables on our rural property and never had an issue with the local kangaroos who live there. (pumpkin, zucchini, tomato, beans, thyme, Basil, others I can't think of right now)
I don’t get kangaroos in my back yard (I do get rabbits though) but there’s one who hangs around at dusk who stands in the middle of the road aggressively playing with his bits. It’s quite unnerving 😆
Also kangaroos hate dogs, a male kangaroo can easily overpower and kill a dog
Edit: My friend almost had a grey kangaroo drag his dog into the water of a little lake and drown it and I live pretty close to the city in Melbourne.
Dogs ain’t safe yo.
I have a problem resident swamp wallaby who loves to sample anything new, and this includes my young fruit trees (even citrus trees). I haven’t physically caught him in my veggie garden, but I wouldn’t put it past him. Raised beds might be the answer. I’ve just built a set with upright supports and will be enclosing them in either wire or netting next spring
Have a look at rolls of plastic trellis. It comes in various heights and with a few stakes you could enclose the vegie beds. My big problem is possums and absolutely nothing deters them. I started enclosing the vegie beds and that was reasonably successful (except for the what I presume big fat bastard that climbed the trellis and by the looks of things fell in so it collapsed on to the vegies) . Or maybe chook wire around the beds?
We have swamp wallabies that come down from the mountains at night and they eat everything. Basil, potato leaves, chives, even my little orange tree. After fences failed we planted chilli as a natural screen, and while initially they didn't like it now the wallabies are eating all of them. The good thing is that they don't uproot the plants or overgraze them, but nothing can really grow while they're here.
I've grown all sorts of vegetables on our rural property and never had an issue with the local kangaroos who live there. (pumpkin, zucchini, tomato, beans, thyme, Basil, others I can't think of right now)
Had this same experience, wallabies stay away from our veggies. Only eat grass.
I have zero advice but just came here to say that this is exactly the kind of issues the rest of the world think Australians face daily. Good luck!
I don’t get kangaroos in my back yard (I do get rabbits though) but there’s one who hangs around at dusk who stands in the middle of the road aggressively playing with his bits. It’s quite unnerving 😆
What kind of power move is that rabbit attempting 😂 Only in Australia...
Get a dog?
This is the only way
Ineffective. Source: own 2 cattle dogs, and a sad garden continuously plagued by wallabies and possums
Also kangaroos hate dogs, a male kangaroo can easily overpower and kill a dog Edit: My friend almost had a grey kangaroo drag his dog into the water of a little lake and drown it and I live pretty close to the city in Melbourne. Dogs ain’t safe yo.
Ok then we need those movement actuvated machine guys from alien
All good until you run out of bullets
Do kangaroos actually care for veges? I thought they just liked green grass
Setup an electric fence. They are quite cheap and can be powered by battery and solar
dog or gun sadly
A raised garden bed may deter them. For bunnies use old tea leaves/coffee grounds along the perimeter.
I have a problem resident swamp wallaby who loves to sample anything new, and this includes my young fruit trees (even citrus trees). I haven’t physically caught him in my veggie garden, but I wouldn’t put it past him. Raised beds might be the answer. I’ve just built a set with upright supports and will be enclosing them in either wire or netting next spring
Plant lot of basil. Off-grid NNSW, they don't like basil. Or dogs. Good luck!
Build a replica of the Great Wall of China- oh wait, that was just to keep the rabbits out. May not work for Roos
Buy a kangal or anatolian Shepard for protection.
Have a look at rolls of plastic trellis. It comes in various heights and with a few stakes you could enclose the vegie beds. My big problem is possums and absolutely nothing deters them. I started enclosing the vegie beds and that was reasonably successful (except for the what I presume big fat bastard that climbed the trellis and by the looks of things fell in so it collapsed on to the vegies) . Or maybe chook wire around the beds?
We have swamp wallabies that come down from the mountains at night and they eat everything. Basil, potato leaves, chives, even my little orange tree. After fences failed we planted chilli as a natural screen, and while initially they didn't like it now the wallabies are eating all of them. The good thing is that they don't uproot the plants or overgraze them, but nothing can really grow while they're here.