A Rabbit-Proof Fence
keep rabbits away from your outdoor vegetation (including trees - they also eat bark) requires a multi-channel approach for maximum effectiveness: fencing, repellents, live traps, guards, and distractions. If it is legal in your area and enjoy the taste of rabbit stew, you can adopt an "approach to border:" The window seat with a shotgun or rifle and pick them off one by one. We will start with the fence.
Catnip Plants
To make your garden fence, you must36-inch chicken wire of sufficient length to encircle the area. Plan on placing wooden or metal stakes about every four feet and rig up some kind of gate that the long-eared interlopers cannot get through or under. Your local building supply person can give you tips on that. If you have another notorious garden pest in your area, deer, you will need a taller fence made out of something sturdier than inch-mesh chicken wire.
Dig a trench 6-12-inches wide and about four inches deep before The positioning on the game. Fold the bottom three or four inches of wire mesh in an L shape, with the bottom of the "L" on the ground, spread the fenced area and buried. This will keep the rabbits from getting through the tomb of the border.
For protect trees, hardware cloth wrap fourth inch around the base young trees. Can you tell if your rabbit attack trees, usually in winter when there is little else to feed, the brands through its two large incisors (left BugsBunny bite on a tree trunk).
Rabbit Repellents
If you really want to medieval Thumper and his friends, you must install an electric fence that will not be buried. The mild electric shock sends parasites scurrying to neighbor's yard.
Even with a fence, it's a good idea to surround your garden with that emit odors that the rabbits to hate. The most common terms are garlic and lavender. They do not like the smell of catnip, or,Sun plant a border of that stuff around your garden. Foxglove Wolfsbane and also work because they know that rabbits are toxic (maybe not a good idea if you have kids, though). These plants also tend to drive deer. Another alternative is to spread a concentrated garlic powder called Pro-Tec. Camphor is also widespread, but is not recommended. Although these animals hate camphor, naphthalene or similar spread throughout your property effectively coats your entire property into poisonThe problems may lead to you, your pets, your garden and groundwater.
One or two rabbits who hates (or rabbit-loving) dogs in the family also discourage rabbits and deer, but only until the dogs are walking around outside. Once the dogs go home, the parasites are back. Forget the cats. Australia, once tried to get them out of control on a wild rabbit population control with the release of hundreds of cats in the wild. The mice can not fared well, but the rabbitsfurther damage to native plants and thumbed paws on cats, rabbits, introduced into a single virus has been fatal. It worked, but this is not a method of control available.
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