Bunnies are hopping through the garden chowing down on our vegetables. Here’s my 2 pronged approach to help them hop away from the gardeb.
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22 Comments
That’s a great idea 😊
Was that last clip of the rabbit running off into the darkness taken the night after you sprinkled the Bonide around the grow bags? [That would be too perfect a commercial.]
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I use that Bonide product and it really works but you have to definitely re-apply after a heavy rain.
Just ordered some for snakes
I have not had much trouble with rabbits eating my vegetables but just cat and squirrel digging In my flower and vegetable beds
Oh my word! They are so cute!!! 😂😂😂
Thank you so much for the information. I’m having a katydid problem. At first I thought, “Oh how nice an overgrown cricket! We can all live happily together. That’s so rare, I wonder if I can name it!” At that time I had never seen one before. Then I realized that the katydid was probably so large and healthy because it was regularly very well fed courtesy of me! I thought I was having a problem with a ladybug larvae invasion, but it turns out that ladybug larvae are after the garden invaders (aphids and such) and not my beloved plants. I believe they are from Asia. Thank you so much for the sticky traps! They are able to catch the hungry flying bugs much better than I can. Sorry about what the bunny did to your greens. It was painful, but on the bright side, Spring has just started and it doesn’t take too long to grow greens.
Hi from Arizona, does that repellant work on prairie dogs
Yes! Dang squirrels for me on my apt deck. Just had planted peas & they were digging in my pots. Ive seen other videos, some use chicken wire if you direct sow seeds.
Does that granular repellant wash away with rain?
My garden I’d in raised beds that are 2 feet tall. Can a rabbit jump up that high?
I use a perennial living mulch to help manage my soil fertility. Various clovers, I'm adding chives and other lower growing herbs to it, mints, lemon balm, etc… I want stuff that is like Atilla the Hun so when I kill some of it to plant into (shovel kill, no sprays), it fills back in for the next season. I've found that once that mulch gets going, the rabbits aren't much of a problem and they just nibble on the mulch and not the garden plants. Early cool weather crops still pose a problem though, because the mulch isn't very active. When that happens, I shift to a much more permanent approach.
I just found a rabbit nest in one of my wife's planters yesterday. It's just in process of digging it out. Nothing in it except some hosta that is just beginning to grow. To early here in Pennsylvania to worry about any veggies yet for couple months. I do have rabbits that live under my front porch. I plant tomatoes and peppers there so, I have to put wire around them till the plants get big enough so they don't bother them.
Interesting, but tulle here for all our gardens have worked perfect alone for our bunnies for years. 😊 We love our rabbits and we share too with them ❤️
Thanks for this. Last year I had a bunny in my garden. Covering the plants bird netting and tulle helped! Thanks for the tip about Repels-All, Kim.
I just ordered the Repells-All animal repellent! I have a terrible problem with squirrels, deer and rabbits 😞
The tulle should work for me, here in South Florida iguanas can eat up your garden in no time. Bonide might help with the cats that come around digging up my seedlings. Worth a try. Thanks!
I use tule. But I also plant greens away from my pots for the critters. So they have their own. It's been working. Unfortunately people have taken their food supply. So they are just looking for food.
We have someone who walks around the neighborhood throwing peanuts and walnuts to the squirrels who then like to bury them in my garden and pots. Last year I put a low chicken wire cage on my beans and used garden pins to pine it over the soil and it kept the squirrels and chipmunks from digging and the rabbits from eating the young plants.
Darn those wascawy wabbits. So cute. So destructive. 🐇🐰
Critter cam. heeheeheehee I love it!
I have lots of rabbits in my area. And squirrels. A ground hog or three. Birds. I once saw a bird struggling to pull a tomato hornworm off one of my tomato plants. I've noticed just recently that a lot of crows are moving in. What's up with that? They'll push out our little song birds. Folks who don't garden might think it's easy, pretty, and still. But it's a war zone out there. I feel like I should be wearing fatigues and army boots, and carrying combat weapons, like Bonide and tulle.