How can I keep rabbits from eating my vegetable garden?
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Sprinkle ground cayenne pepper around the garden, on the plants and soil. It has worked for me for years.
Find dog or cat owners. Collect animal hair with a vacuum. spread around perimeter. Some stores have fox or coyote urine or the like. A rabbit won't stick around with natural predator scent in the area!!
You can place a chicken wire type fence into the soil a couple of feet or so and surround your garden.
You can create a raised garden bed.
You can buy a recipe book.
Hi KEVIN A,
Try putting moth balls down around your plants. I always bought marigolds rabbits don't like the smell of those plants & a fence helps
too. But when it rains you need to re-apply the moth balls. Good luck & have a good night. :0)
Fence it in. I have a chicken wire fence to keep chickens out of mine. Just pound some stakes in and fasten the wire to them and you'll need to rig up a gate to get in. Mine is a chainlink gate.
plant marigolds around the perimeter of the garden.
also, you can buy "Rabbit and Dog repellent" at any garden supply store. It's a stinky powder that keeps the adorable bunnies away. And it's pretty cheap.
Rabbits are not too concerned with the hair of dogs and cats. Hair floats around everywhere, and if you live in suburbia, chances are the rabbits have dealt with dogs and cats before, or they wouldn't be living there.
Fencing off you garden is not as easy as it sounds. Rabbits live underground. You are not going to keep them out with a fence unless you bury the fence deeper than they are willing to dig.
I don't know what moth balls are made from, but I wouldn't want to eat a plant that is growing from soil that moth balls have disolved into.
What my family uses, and too great success with deer, is mountain lion pee. They buy it a plant nursery, although you can buy it online too. They sprayed it around the outside of the garden, and the deer have not been back. It stinks like crazy going on, but that fades (for us). You can also buy fox and coyote pee too. Any natural predator will scare the critters pretty bad
Take pieces of an old hose and cut them to sizes that look like snakes... put them in your garden.. I do this for my strawberry patch and it works great to detour those Peter Rabbits...
You need to fence in your garden.
Hot pepper oil concentrate diluted with water in a garden sprayer (1 part pepper oil to 4 parts water). Natural, organic, inexpensive and does not harm plants or animals. When 'ol peter cottontail takes a few bites of anything with this sprayed on it, he will think twice before coming back to dine in your yard. This is very inexpensive and effective. Get it from the grocery store. Works well on deer too. It will remain effective until the first hard rain washes it off. Then just re-apply, very inexpensive and it goes a long way.
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