How to Stop Rabbits from Eating Your Plants
By: Lisa Kaplan Gordon
Nothing's more frustrating than watching
rabbits treat your vegetable garden like their private salad bar. Here's a
novel way to protect your greens.
If rabbits are ravaging your vegetable garden, you'll love this tip on building a bunny barricade that we learned
about from some gardeners in Fargo, N.D.
(http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/366725/):
Place wooden shish kebab sticks at various angles around your greens to form a threatening, spiky barrier that discourages those waskely wabbits.
If you're worried that "bunny kebabs" seem too harsh, our Fargo friends say no rabbits appear to have been harmed. Damage so far: one broken stick. Rabbits appear to be avoiding them instead of trying to go around them. But here are some other options to protect your garden from pests (http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/pest-control/backyard-pest-protection/).
Place wooden shish kebab sticks at various angles around your greens to form a threatening, spiky barrier that discourages those waskely wabbits.
If you're worried that "bunny kebabs" seem too harsh, our Fargo friends say no rabbits appear to have been harmed. Damage so far: one broken stick. Rabbits appear to be avoiding them instead of trying to go around them. But here are some other options to protect your garden from pests (http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/pest-control/backyard-pest-protection/).
•Spray a repellent solution of Tabasco
sauce and water (1 tablespoon Tabasco/1 gallon of water) on your garden plants
(http://www.houselogic.com/outdoors/landscaping-gardening/plants-trees/).
Rabbits don't like the taste of hot sauce. Protect your eyes when spraying, and
wash your hands.
•Erect a 2-ft. fence around
rabbit-appealing veggies, like lettuce, peas, beans, and beets.
•Pour coyote, fox, or wolf urine,
available at garden centers, around the edge of your garden. Rabbits will stay
away if they think a predator is nearby.
•Place chicken wire cages around your plants and keep them healthy by avoiding these vegetable garden mistakes (http://www.houselogic.com/home-advice/gardens/growing-vegetable-garden-rookie-mistakes/).
•Slice a bar of deodorant soap into
slivers and place them around the perimeter of your garden. Rabbits don't like
the smell of soap and won't cross the line.
Got any rabbit tales or tips to share?
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