"Chaz Vincent" wrote in message
...
Hello!
A couple of years back I put up a post called "garden wipeout" about how
our garden been totally raised to the ground by rabbits or gophers or
some other cute and ravenous version of rats.
I have come up with an easy solution for those who don't want to build
an elaborate fence system or go rampaging through your residential
neighbourhood with a shotgun...
Just wrap the outside of tomato cages completley in chicken wire. You
then bury some of the chicken wire to keep out burrowers. Then plant
lettuces beans etc. in the middle. They will look like little rows of
waste paper baskets. This works well, we tried it last year. You can
even put clear garbage bags over them when it frosts. Handling the
chicken wire is a little tricky, and you have watch out culitivating
because the loose points are still pretty sharp, but the cage will keep
the little critters out. They work especially well for beans, a bunny
favourite.
The best part is it's cheap and you can make as many or few as you need.
The tools required are wire cutters and heavy work gloves.
-Charlie
--
________________________________________
Please visit Chaz Vincent's
Night Stations Sound and Design Studio
on the Web at:
http://www.odyssey.on.ca/~cvincent/welcome.html
Oddly enough, I live 50 miles in the bush, my backyard is surrounded by 50
ft jackpines and spruce trees... but I've never had a rabbit in my garden.
I've had a ground hog once, foxes almost daily... they just walk through and
don't do a lot of damage. One year I had a cow moose and her calf stroll
through. Again, they just punched holes in the garden and only crushed 6
onions. The following month, I had a wolf go through. Big tracks for him!!
Looking for the moose, I'm sure!
The ravens and crows I'm almost positive, will be yanking out my lettuce
again like they do every other year. They don't eat it, they just tear it
out and drop it... I've watched them do it! GRRR! Same thing with
chipmunks pulling out baby carrots and only eating the tops (greens) then
leaving the carrot on to of the soil. Good thing it doesn't happen much!
But rabbits? I've never had a problem with them!
--
Tammie
Zone 2b-3a Far Northern Ontario
http://community.webshots.com/user/_tammie57