Wascally Wabbits

[Tyme2fish]

Something is eating our green bean shoots as fast as they grow. We had a very nice three rows of beans coming up and now we are down to about a half a row. I suspect the cause is the baby bunnies hopping all over our place. Nothing else that I can think of can eat the leaves that quickly overnight.

Big Dog Beagle does his best in tracking them but doesn't know what to do with them after they've gone to ground.

After my recent haircut,Mrs.Tyme took my snow white hair clippings and spread them around the garden area. I believe the baby bunnies think that's Momma rabbits white belly hair and are now instructed by their Momma to have free range in the garden. I caged the tomatoes to prevent them from free ranging but I'm not willing nor able to cage up all the bunnies.

Could my white hair attract the white hares? Does my hair attract the does?

Over the years I've had a few wild hairs come out of my a.. er wild hares come to my garden but I'm determined to get these wascally wabbits.

 

[Lurch77]

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My dad in law has a very large garden. It's his retirement hobby. He had the same issue as you a few years back. He put up a chicken wire fence around the bean rows. The rabbits dug under. So the next year he dug a trench about a foot deep and did the fence again, burying the bottom foot of it in the trench. Seems to have stopped them.

 

[jigngrub]

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Your wife put the hair in the garden to deter slugs, I doubt the bunnies are that partial to it. Cats and dogs will scare the bunnies off, but if you keep the pets in the house at night you might try spreading their manure in the garden to deter the bunnies... just check your boots before coming back into the house.

 

[Tyme2fish]

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I'm too lazy to install any chicken wire.

Beside that, if I have to use wire it'll be Chuck Norris, ain't scared of nothing,nerves of steel wire.

 

[Silverbullet555]

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Gunpowder sprinkled over a garden makes a great fertilizer. Gunpowder ignited in a case expelling a projectile out of a barrel makes a good rabbit deterrent, and provides protein for dinner.

 

[southkogs]

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Hasenpfeffer: a traditional German stew made from marinated rabbit or hare, cut into stewing-meat sized pieces and braised with onions and wine in a marinade thickened with the animal's blood.

I hear it's rather tasty.

 

[coastalrichard]

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Tyme, have you tried an eagle or owl decoy in the middle of the garden? :spy:

 

[Tyme2fish]

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The live trap hasn't caught anything. Maybe they've gotten too fat to get into the trap!!

This morning I placed some of our beagle's poop in the bean row. I'll let y'all know if this works.

 

[Grub54891]

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When I had a garden,I took a bucket,laid it slightly downhill,stuck a radio in it,and let play all night,changed the station twice a week just to keep em on their toes! Never had a problem with coons,deere or bugsy again!
Grub

 

[glenn property of pam]

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brick with pepper on it. They sniff the pepper and sneeze then knock themselfs out on the brick. Then you just go pick them up.

when my daughter was young she could sit there and watch the rabbits and the brick for hours all excited that she would get one for a pet.

 

[foodfisher]

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brick with pepper on it. They sniff the pepper and sneeze then knock themselfs out on the brick. Then you just go pick them up.

when my daughter was young she could sit there and watch the rabbits and the brick for hours all excited that she would get one for a pet.

:lol:When I was a kid, grampa told me I could catch a robin for a pet. All I had to do was put some salt on it's tale and it couldn't fly. Mom wondered where her shaker was disappearing to all the time.

 

[southkogs]

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...This morning I placed some of our beagle's poop in the bean row. I'll let y'all know if this works.

Note to self: check beans from Tyme's garden for shape, size and consistency before consuming. Sniff test in high order.

 

[Tyme2fish]

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Note to self: check beans from Tyme's garden for shape, size and consistency before consuming. Sniff test in high order.

LOL

I figure that by the time the beans sprout ,grow and yield the beans the dog poop will be long gone. That is my hope.

 

[colbyt]

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You could plant the poor little things some leaf lettuce at the edge of the garden. Black Seed Simpson is slow to bolt if it lives that long.

 

[aspeck]

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Hope you planted some carrots for the bunnies ... Grow em big and fat, more tender meat that way!

 

[Tyme2fish]

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Hope you planted some carrots for the bunnies ... Grow em big and fat, more tender meat that way!

I didn't plant any but I did put some juicy carrot chunks in the trap.

 

[Eric 3.7LX Alpha 1]

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I didn't plant any but I did put some juicy carrot chunks in the trap.

maybe you should put some bean leaves in the trap..

Just left my brother's garden. same issue, about half his bean plants down to a twig...