RABBITS EAT MY GARDEN!!
Posted: Feb 15, 2005 12:44 pm
I have hundreds of wild rabbits running around my property. They chew on my landscape plants too, mainly eat my tulips down before they can flower. They did chew a korean lilac right to the ground last year. Anyway....
We had a garden a few years ago and the little buggers ate my peas and beans and corn right to the ground. (They didn't touch my pickles,squash,tomatoes, onions or asparagus) So, we put a fence around the garden. They have found a few places to sneak back in but the damage is now minimal. I didn't have potatoes that year, so I don't know if they'll bother a potato plant or not. Does anyone know if they will?
I want to plant my potatoes in another area, not in the fenced in part. My garden is getting bigger and I don't have room for either potatoes or sweet corn in the fenced part. I know they will chew my sweet corn. I don't plant a very big crop of the other items in my garden that they didn't chew. So, it's the potatoes that have to move. Just wondering if anyone knows if the potato plant is rabbit food? Or if you have any ideas on how to get rid of them??
We have dogs but they don't chase rabbits. (I used to raise domestic rabbits and dogs were taught not to touch a rabbit!) So, now when I want them to, they don't. I taught them too well!!
Cindy
We had a garden a few years ago and the little buggers ate my peas and beans and corn right to the ground. (They didn't touch my pickles,squash,tomatoes, onions or asparagus) So, we put a fence around the garden. They have found a few places to sneak back in but the damage is now minimal. I didn't have potatoes that year, so I don't know if they'll bother a potato plant or not. Does anyone know if they will?
I want to plant my potatoes in another area, not in the fenced in part. My garden is getting bigger and I don't have room for either potatoes or sweet corn in the fenced part. I know they will chew my sweet corn. I don't plant a very big crop of the other items in my garden that they didn't chew. So, it's the potatoes that have to move. Just wondering if anyone knows if the potato plant is rabbit food? Or if you have any ideas on how to get rid of them??
We have dogs but they don't chase rabbits. (I used to raise domestic rabbits and dogs were taught not to touch a rabbit!) So, now when I want them to, they don't. I taught them too well!!
Cindy