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Prevent Rabbits from Falling in Your Garden

 6 Ways to Prevent Rabbits from Falling in Your Garden



Rabbits can be beautiful - with their large ears, soft furry bodies, bunny hops, and wiggles noses - but that admiration will soon disappear once you see the damage they do to your vegetable crops! Although they are found worldwide, more than half of the world's total rabbit population lives in North America. They can also be found eating greens in dense urban settings. Turbulent appetite and often descending in numbers, rabbits will treat any delicate plant but have a specific choice of foods grown in the vegetable garden: beets, beans, carrots, lettuce, broccoli, peas, and coriander.


They also eat flowers and other ornamental plants. When there is a shortage of food in the winter, the rabbits remove the bark from the trees and shrubs. Get ready this spring by combining various rabbit repellent techniques to help protect your valuable plants.


1. Garden fencing


One of the best ways to protect yourself against rabbits and other wildlife is to set up a physical barrier around your vegetable area. To ensure that your fence is effective against rabbits, plan to build a barrier at least 3 feet high when finished - high enough to prevent them from jumping over it. The easiest and cheapest way to quickly fence your garden is with metal mesh attached to solid wood or metal posts. Do not use fiberglass or plastic mesh, as rabbits will chew these materials directly.


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2. Protect trees and shrubs



In winter, any small tree or shrub in your yard is likely to be damaged when a large number of rabbits live nearby. In the absence of soft greens during this period, rabbits feed on the vascular tissue between the bark and the tree for survival. When this inner layer, called the cambium, is consumed in large quantities, it blocks the flow of nutrients and water from the plant's roots to the leaves.


3. Use natural rabbit restraints


While fences and barriers work best to prevent rabbits, this is not the case with every crop in your garden. Rabbits have been a boon to gardeners since ancient times, and many older tricks have been passed down through the generations:


Tomatoes for your best harvest

Vegetables that grow well in the shade


Scatter human hair


After trimming a haircut or beard, collect pieces of hair and scatter them around the soil around your plants. Not only is the hair good for the soil, but the scent of human clothing smells just like ours, causing fear in your backyard rabbits. In the rabbit mind, humans can only mark the problem and go to areas where humans are not. If human clippings are low, use pet fur instead.


4. Spray a rabbit repellent


Since rabbits do not really like the alkalinity of garlic, onion, and chili, you can use these products to mix foliar spray to drive them away from your tasty crops. To prepare, you will need


3 large onions

The whole head of garlic

3 hot peppers or 1 tablespoon crushed red pepper

Dish soap 1 tbsp

Chop or crush the onion, garlic, and pepper together and place in a large bowl. Cover with water and boil it for a day or two. Drain and transfer to a gallon jug, add dish soap, and pour more water. Shake well and pour some of this deodorant mixture into a spray bottle and spray your plants well. Apply once a week and again after each shower. As an added bonus, this spray can be used as a bar of insecticidal soap to prevent soft body pests from your plants.


5. Choose rabbit resistant plants



Rabbits choose what to catch based on taste, nutritional value, and ease of access. Fortunately, there are plenty of cultivars that are less suitable for rabbits or more suitable to sustain the herd of hungry rabbits. The most resistant plants to rabbits are lavender, lilac, calendula, daffodil, basil, mint, parsley, asparagus, onion, potato, tomato, rhubarb, azalea, butterfly bush, lamb's ear, peony, and rhododendron. Keep in mind that planting these varieties does not guarantee protection against rabbits. When an animal is hungry and desperate, it will eat anything.


Rabbits are usually attracted to seedlings and new plantings and the gentle growth of more mature varieties in the spring. Rabbit flavors S vary by region and season. But by storing less exotic plants in your garden, your backyard rabbits may decide to go for delicious food.


6. Grow a wildlife park


When you are busy building fences and cutting hair, it is easy to see the fact that all rabbits are simply trying to survive.


May be compatible with adjacent animals. In addition to the above exclusion and repellent tricks, the last trick is a gentle one: raising food specifically for rabbits and other wildlife to eat. When you are busy building fences and collecting hectares of clippings, it is easy to see the fact that all rabbits are simply trying to survive.



May be compatible with adjacent animals. In addition to the above exclusion and repellent tricks, the last trick is a gentle one: raising food specifically for rabbits and other wildlife to eat.



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