How do you keep animals away from a vegetable garden? They are robbing my peppers!?

Question

They eat flowers too!

Answer 1

Plant marigolds around the perimeter of your garden. Rabbits hate the scent of them and it repels deer as well. If it's too late in your area to plant marigolds, you can try the fencing method but it gets expensive-especially if you have a large garden. You can try a product called liquid fence. It's all natural and you spray it either around the perimeter of your garden or around the plants that you want to protect. I will warn you that it smells horrible. The bonus is that you only have to apply it once a month. Good luck!

Answer 2

fowl twine gained't save container mice, voles or gophers out of a vegetable backyard. If there are a mode of snakes there are nonetheless a lot of insects and small varmints because the snakes will leave even as they run out of nutrition. you may want to attempt some a million/4" mesh hardware textile around the backyard perimeter, and some traps if there's a gopher situation. Many birds mutually with grackle's and crows will enhance a pastime for brand spanking new seedlings and end result (tomatoes and peppers) and the purely answer to that is netting or extra fowl twine.

Answer 3

I have a HUGE garden every year, I live in the country and I have found that Planting Marigolds around the perimeter and taking hair out of brushes and placing them around the garden keeps most animals away, also moth balls are good

Answer 4

My dad and my family is having the same problem! We know what your going through. When my uncle moved to his house, he had a large, fenced in area where the previous owner had a garden (that was full of weeds), and now my uncle plants stuff in there now.
What I sugest to you is to get a fence (perferably metal, kinda light) and put it around the area where you want to grow the peppers, flowers, and other stuff, and make sure its tall enough so deer can't reach them, but far underground, too, so the woodchucks and rabbits can't get through. Make sure there are small holes, too. Hope thah helps!

Answer 5

Well, an older lady taught me that planting a row of garlic around the outside of the garden will keep bugs out, but animals I'd go with the fence answer. Ron

Answer 6

for the garden put some sevin dust on the plants it repels animals and bugs but doesnt interfere with pollenation for the flowers mix up some dish liquid with a little water and put it in a spray bottle and mist it on your flowers

Answer 7

go to wal mart and get a 20 gauge shot gun... the more you pick off the less will come back
now if they're good varmints i can give ya some great recipes for rabbit, squirrel and raccoon. now if its a skunk thats a different problem..if ya shoot it...it sprays...if you scare it.....it sprays so best there if build a fence round the garden and bury at least 12 inches of it.

Answer 8

chicken wire...

cheyenne pepper only last so long.. and will get in the roots of what you are growing..

you take wooden spikes (pre-made, or by hand) and take them and space them out to the size of the garden and take the chicken wire and cut out each side of the spaces... if you want.. have the top fold over just a little so that they can't climb or hop over... it will not hurt them put will poke them

Answer 9

Sprinkle cayenne pepper powder on them. They won't touch them! It won't hurt them either - they can smell it before they eat it and won't bother.

With the flowers, plant marigolds around them - they don't like the smell. Green onions work too!

Answer 10

sprinkle cayenne pepper on the ground by your vegetable garden. it wont hurt the animals and you can keep your peppers too!!!