Rabbits--Help!

[dixieTX]

Cute little varmints eating everything. How do you get the pesky critters out of your garden? They only come out at night =passed my bedtime. I don't want to kill them==just keep them out of my garden. Eating everything including Hollyhock, monkey grass and digging my bulbs. Plus have noticed fleas for the first time. Any suggestions?

[Linjoh]

Hi,

If you or someone you know has a dog, you can use their hair.
I received some Star of Bethlehem in a a trade and couldn't wait for it to bloom. The rabbits kept eating all the leaves, until I tried dog hair.
Every time I brush my dog, I save his hair to tuck around the plants. When the wind or maybe birds remove it, I just replace.

Linda

[dixieTX]

Thanks Linjohn--got a friend with a chow-chow--enough hair to run off legions--will give it a try.

Dixie

[bgchavis]

I take one garlic clove and one hot pepper, put them in a blender, and chop them up. I add to this, water to fill the blender 3/4 way up, and whirr till blended well. I put this into a spray bottle with a drop of dish soap. shake, and spray on my plants. It is organic, and keeps the deer, rabbits and other critters off. It also works to deter aphids and a few leaf eating bugs.
Doesn't hurt plants or veggies.

I don't use it for birds, as they do not hate the heat recepters in the mouth, but it works good to keep squirrels out of my bird feeders, if I add some dryed and chopped hot peppers alone, to the bird feed.

I also use the hair, and even add ours, saved from haircuts here. If you don't cut your own, most barber/ beauty shops can give you a batch of it on any given day.

Hope some of this helps.
Brenda

[Mandy]

I've heard taht planting marigolds around outside of plant shall deter varmints! I have a baby native rose that my bunnies have had a heyday with so I'm going to try the marigold trick. We'll see, lol!