Despite putting up rabbit netting at considerable cost and having a usless rabbit catching collie dog my Garden is still being eaten by them! Please help as I love my Garden & plants.
2006-08-22 11:07:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Don't feel lonesome! 3 dogs and they all just LOOK at our stray bunny!
I've got a fairly big garden so I put out a multiple line weed burner (electric) fence for both the rabbit and the dogs. Worked for the dogs and I thought it was keeping the rabbit out when I quit seeing her. Wrong! I just hadn't realized that she had gone on night patrols. One of the members of my gardening group said that her family, from grandfather down, cuts the top half out of gallon milk jugs, filled the bottom half with water & threw in a handful of mothballs. Said that it's worked for many a year. She also said that rabbits and deer can be deterred by smell (which makes sense, rabbits find food by smell and the organic mixes always seem to contain cayenne or some type of pepper), and that they hate the smell of the mothballs. I've finally gathered enough milk jugs from family and friends to try myself and will be putting out this next week. Not a pretty solution but you may want to try. Good Luck!
2006-08-22 11:35:04 · answer #1 · answered by Bodie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
TRY THESE THINGS THEY TRULY WORK.
Try putting moth balls around and in the garden to help with the deer and rabbits eating our plants. We put them in the rows, between the plants and the smell keeps them out of the garden. When it rains we have to put more out because the rain dissolves them.
Rabbit and deer repellent: Blend well two to three eggs. Pour into it a gallon of water. Spray plants. Holds for about two weeks unless rain washes it off. Re-spray as often as needed. Works well in Carolina and California. I’ve done it in both places.
Deer and rabbit fence: Available commercially. It is a 6-foot wire that has small mesh at bottom and larger mesh at top. Drive in 10-foot “T” posts with a post pounder. Attach “deer and rabbit” wire, plus two strands of barbless wire at top to make it 8 feet high. This does the trick well. Eight-foot gates are easy to construct using elbows, Ts, pipe and wire.
2006-08-22 15:24:43 · answer #2 · answered by Tennis_Ace 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to plant marigolds around the garden. I would also make a little patch outside and away from the garden for the rabbits. It worked for me.
2006-08-22 11:30:11 · answer #3 · answered by Rea 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try sprinkling ground up moth balls. Place a bunch of them in a plastic bag and hit with a hammer. I have heard many things done like the smell of them.
2006-08-22 11:38:31 · answer #4 · answered by Annie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get some realistic coiled up rubber snakes and place them around the perimeter. Rabbits fear snakes.
2006-08-22 13:43:02 · answer #5 · answered by Go Rush! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a 12 bore shotgun. " on the rabbits."
2006-08-26 05:36:34 · answer #6 · answered by red beret 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Air rifle and a recipe for rabbit pie.
Check with your local butcher what they're paying for them.
2006-08-22 11:14:49 · answer #7 · answered by Hairyloon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple. Put carrots in your next door neighbours garden! Haha!
2006-08-22 11:14:48 · answer #8 · answered by bright spark 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You could try a small electric fence. I have a friend that uses that to good effect.
2006-08-22 11:11:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get someone to come with a Ferret....They also will move home if you pour old diesel oil down their hole/warren
2006-08-26 01:57:27 · answer #10 · answered by susan c 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋