how to get a rabbit free garden

[inishindie]

I have a list below that sorts out some of the issues of keeping rabbits of of your shrubs in the garden.

I would like to know if there are any vegetables that can be grown that rabbits don't go for! I very much doubt it as a hungry rabbit will probably eat everything!

Any suggestions please?

Shrubs that rabbits won’t eat (hopefully)
Aucuba japonica.
Buddleia davidi.
Ceanothus.
Daphne mezereum
Eleagnus, Euonymus
Hydrangea.
Kalmia latifolia
Oleria
Ornamental and edible currants
Philadelphus
Skimmia
Snowberry
Tree paeony.
Viburnum opulus and V. tinus


Cheers

Ian

www.inishindie.blogspot.com/

[bogit & legit]

why dont you shoot the rabbits and have some meat for the frezzer.

b&l

[Cassiepod]

shoot the bu**ers was my response too.

Rabbit proof plants are NOT entirely rabbit proof The rabbits like to have a nibble to see if they like it... if the plant is small-medium sized, whether they like it or not it's gone.

Therefore physical protection, through ugly, is also necessary.

Forgot to say, there's a booklet, "gardening with the enemy" available form rabbit infested areas which gives loads of (non-harmful) suggestions too.

[Thurston Garden]

A bloody rabbit has been eating my purple sprouting broccoli inside the big tunnel. I could not fathom out how it/they had been getting in. I spotted it today when I went to cut myself a cabbage. A myxy one too. I think it had been in the tunnel for a few days, but could not have been that bad as it only bumped into one thing on the long run from one end of the tunnel to the other and out through the door before I could batter it over the melt with a spade.

I hate them, but I also hate not killing the myxy ones and putting them out of their misery.

[Jack]

Gidday

O.K. then, but which of those plants are worth eating. Are there any vegetables that are rabbit proof.

I think the bulet idea is the way to go.

[Peggy Sue]

Down our allotments the rabbits on ly get in where they can see and smell food, those of us that have fenced our plot with tin roofing rather than chicken wire seem to be rabbit free - fingers crossed

Not pretty but the idea of can't see, can't smell could be used in a more elegant style I'm sure...

[ina]

My veg garden was rabbit free as long as the cat patrolled it... This last summer, without a cat, I had plenty of rabbit problems!

[Mare Owner]

I think the only way to really keep them out is to fence them out, or have a dog (or cat!) that keeps them away. If they are around places you can't fence, I would shoot them.

We have a few rabbits here, but they didn't bother my veggies last year, I think the dogs keep them away enough most days. Every once in awhile I see one close, but they are never here for long.

The chickens are the ones that cause problems in my garden, they dug up all my garlic last year. This coming year I plan to fence the chickens IN instead of letting them free-range the whole farm.