Troubled by pesky possums? Experts share their recommendations on how to best safeguard your gardens from the opportunistic animals.

Possums are highly polarising animals, with people either describing them as cute backyard visitors or noisy home invaders wreaking havoc on gardens.

If you’re growing your own veggies, fruit and flowers there’s nothing more disheartening than finding chewed off crops and stems destructed by the pesky nocturnal marsupial.

So, what can you do to protect your garden and live in harmony with the native animal?