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Protecting Garden Vegetables

Get tips to protect your vegetable harvest

07/29/2025 | Rating TV-G

Virginia Home Grown

Protecting Garden Vegetables

Clip: Season 25 Episode 5 | 2m 33sVideo has Closed Captions

Get tips to protect your vegetable harvest

Shana Williams shares that wildlife in her garden is usually a welcome sight until they start eating the produce, and explains how she uses row covers and mesh netting to discourage birds and squirrels from feeding on her crops. Featured on VHG episode 2505, July 2025.

07/29/2025 | Rating TV-G

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