Rabbits eating my garden?
Question:I can not stop the rabbits from eating my garden. Can anyone suggests anything that will help and stop them?
Answers:
Fool proof solution. Mix sugar free grape cool-aid in a spritzer bottle with a few drops of soap. It is so bitter the won't bit. The soap makes it cling to the plant. It does not hurt or change the ability to eat the food.
put a fence (chicken wire) around the garden and bury the bottom 6" at least in the dirt, to discourage them from digging under the fence.
Look for a stuffed owl or other bird of prey and mount it near your garden.
You can try sprinkling bloodmeal (not as gross as it sounds) around the plants. Rabbits don't like it and it's also a good organic fertilizer. Find it at any well-stocked garden center.
I also make a spray that has 2 T of hot sauce, 2 chopped cloves of garlic and two raw eggs. Mix it up and let it sit a day or two. Then strain it out and mix it with 2 quarts of water. Spray it on the plants. It keeps the deer away, so maybe it will work on rabbits.
A fence will work if they don't dig under it.
Good luck.
Well what you can do is like the person below me said, but a fence around your garden and maybe out side the garden leave a few carrots for the rabbits to eat. that way, you are not harmign the rabbits. and they are not hungry to eat your garden. but each day out one less carrot then you already did the previous dayy. that way the rabbits do not rely on you for food.
hoped this helped!!!
I'm having the same problem and I have found a diet in hossenpepper is helping the matter!
Some friends of mine have had great luck with putting their dogs hair around the garden as well as having her dad/brothers/boyfriend...ahem. around the perimeter of the garden. Bunnies don't seem to like the smell of either of those around.
Stop growing vegetables
Liquid Fence has helped me a bit, but it smells horrible (I believe it is basically fox/coyote urine), you need to retreat after a good rain or a week or 2, and be careful around young plants-I wouldn't spray them directly.
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