Bunny-Proof Your Property! Here Is How To Keep Rabbits Out Of Your Garden
Seeing little rabbits hop around and nibble on produce can be such an adorable sight. Well, unless they are hopping around your garden and eating all the crops and produce you worked hard to grow. We agree that these little creatures are very cute, but they are also quite destructive when it comes to your garden. Even if you did love Peter Rabbit as a kid, once you grow up you really start to understand what a nuisance these small mammals can be. If you live in an area where rabbit populations are high, then it may seem like a hard task to protect your garden while still letting these furry friends live their lives carefree. Fortunately, there are a ton of sustainable and humane ways to keep these menaces out of your delicious crops. Here is how to keep rabbits out of your garden easily.
Rabbits can be quite the nuisance around the garden
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How To Keep Rabbits Out Of Your Garden
While rabbits are some of the cutest garden critters, they sure can wreak havoc on your beautiful garden beds. Especially, if you like to grow fruits, veggies, and perennials. So, don’t let their cute faces distract you, it’s time to take back control of your garden! Today, we will show you how to easily keep rabbits away from your backyard in a humane and sustainable way.
Rabbits sure can wreak havoc on your beautiful garden beds
#Get a fence
If you have read The Tale of Peter Rabbit, then you know a simple picket fence won’t get the job done. You will need a more solid fence to keep these furry creatures out of your property. A rabbit fence is a great long-term solution to keeping rabbits out. It needs to at least four feet tall, heavy-duty, galvanized steel mesh with the bottom sunk below ground level. It’s also a good idea to bend the lowest inches outward to make sure the bunnies cannot tunnel underneath it.
You will need a solid fence to keep these furry creatures out of your property
#Cover garden beds
If you only have a few garden beds, then it may be a smart idea to protect them with some type of netting. You can also do this only for the beds that have the rabbit’s favorite foods. Use mesh hardware cloth or chicken netting for trees, shrubs, and crops. Just make sure to also add protection around the base with some hardware cloth as rabbits are diggers, so you need to stop them from burrowing.
It may be a smart idea to protect garden beds with some type of netting
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#Use repellents
There are plenty of odors’ rabbits do not like and try to stay away from. Which means they make excellent repellents. While one of the most popular rabbit repellents are those with whole-egg solids, these types of sprays tend to attract other pests, so you will have a whole other problem to deal with. Instead, we recommend using pouches or sprays that can be a combination of the following: garlic, cayenne pepper, liquid soap, eucalyptus, peppermint, and mother types of strong herbs.
There are plenty of odors’ rabbits do not like and try to stay away from
#Modify the habitat
Rabbits don’t like spaces that are open as they feel exposed. So, make sure to regularly mow your grass, remove any bush piles, rock piles, weed patches, and other types of potentiol hiding or nesting places. This will make the rabbits feel uncomfortable and they are more likely to avoid going through your garden and nesting. After all, the last thing you need is rabbits making themselves at home and starting a family.
Rabbits don’t like spaces that are open as they feel exposed
#Grow rabbit resistant plants
While rabbits are opportunistic feeders and really love to munch on seedlings and young trees, they also don’t like quite a bit of things. So, if you grow more of what they don’t eat, it’s very likely they won’t touch it. While they will eat pretty much anything if they are starving, it is still unlikely they will go for plants they dislike. You can plant marigolds, lavender, catmint, daffodils, and in general anything that is spiky, has a really strong smell, or is fuzzy.
Plant marigolds as rabbits don’t like them
#Use disturbances
Rabbits are creatures of habits. This gives you an advantage. Any new novelty you manage to create they will see as a threat. So, you can easily create some harmless disturbances with sound or light. This will keep them at bay and make them feel threatened in the area, so they will try to avoid it. You can get motion activated sprinklers, wind chimes, flashing light, spinning pinwheels and other similar “disturbances”. Put them all around the garden or in areas where you spot rabbits. Pets also make great disturbances, so maybe let them roam the garden a bit and make noise.
Sprinklers will scare away rabbits
These were the best methods on how to keep rabbits out of your garden. We hope you found this article useful. Now you won’t have to worry anymore about these little rascals doing damage to your beautiful garden.
These were the best methods on how to keep rabbits out of your garden
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