Rabbits in garden

[turkeyfeathers]

anyone else seeing a disturbing amount of bunnies around. Lil' B's decimated 4 18" jalapeno pepper plants overnight. Got 20 or so sugar snap peas over the week. broccoli plants gone. Had six in our yard last week, and a small yard. They munched copious ammounts of my wife's flowers $$$ too. Veggie garden has green plastic fencing all around it. Staked down so they can't get under. Noticed this morning they chewed an entrance and exit hole in the fencing. Game on varmints. Calling in Bill Murray (Caddyshack) Just pizzes me off. Tilled, bought plants, planted, black weedproof tarping, fenced, hours of weeding and watering. Poof !! Gone.

[GreeneHunter]

Sounds like an early Rabbit season to me !

[EspressoBuzz]

I don't understand, did you need a recipe?

[turkeyfeathers]

I don't understand, did you need a recipe?

ha just venting

[greg54]

My neighbors cats roam thru the yards and the 2 bunnies that were in my backyard almost every morning and evening are no longer around....so I think the cats put Bugs on their dinner menu. My plants are in good shape.

[dbHunterNY]

what kind of fencing do you have.... I've used chicken wire with good results.  bury the last 3-4".

[turkeyfeathers]

what kind of fencing do you have.... I've used chicken wire with good results.  bury the last 3-4".

It's green plastic fencing with about 1 inch holes. Garden is raised on 4 x 4's so I anchored fencing to the bottom and used U stakes so they couldn't crawl under. Never thinking they'd chew holes thru it. Guess I have to redo with chicken wire, although if they use wire snips I'm going to be pizzed !

[EspressoBuzz]

all the rabbit proof fencing I've ever seen goes underground by at least 6 inches.

[nycredneck]

I gave up on my garden, it was 20'x20' and had tomatoes, peppers, broccoli and asparagus. I had chicken wire fencing buried 12" into ground plus a two foot apron around perimeter and fence was six feet high. Still the rabbits, ground hogs, deer and other critters would wait till everything was getting ready to begin a harvest and then get in and wipe it out in ONE night. This would happen every year so I simply gave up. Short of shooting them with a .22 cal nothing worked for me, not trapping or repellents.

[EspressoBuzz]

for deer and geese i have seen one thing that can work. Motion sensors connected to sprinklers, they come on when the animals in question comes near and goes off when they move away. I think you can see some in action on you tube, but it's for larger animals.

[Pygmy]

A buddy of mine uses an electric fence a few inches off the ground and claims he has good results.

[NFA-ADK]

We have baby bunnies everywhere on LI.  But I guess it is that time of the year.

[turkeyfeathers]

We have baby bunnies everywhere on LI.  But I guess it is that time of the year.

Because they @#$% like rabbits

[ants]

Yup….. been seeing a lot of little ones everywhere 

[growalot]

27.00  100x7 ft bird mesh...cut in half and line the base of your fence...they get there nails stuck it it and it bothers them...also the rough feel of it...

Edited June 20, 2015 by growalot

[Doc]

4' high welded wire fencing plus 2 strands of electric fence. 1 strand above the welded wire fence and one strand 2" to 3" above ground. Nothing has gotten into the garden in 15 years except us.

[BowWeldingJohn]

Get CATS! I have 5-6 cats that hang around by the stables and gardens. I haven't seen a Rabbit by my garden in years! plus they control moles!