zxcvbob wrote:
I just got out to the garden today for the first time this year, and
there were rabbit turds everywhere -- and both my bush cherries were
eaten all the way to the ground. �A few bottom limbs on the apple tree
were stripped of all bark.

I don't care about the apple tree because those limbs were too low and I
was gonna prune them off anyway. �But the cherries really ****es me off.
� I assume they will come back up but there will be no cherries this
year (the plants are 2 years old) �But who knows, they might be dead. �I
gotta remember to put a hardware cloth cage around them next fall.
Maybe I should do it tomorrow...

They're being eaten *now*, if you wait, even a day or two, you may as
well kiss your plants bye bye. You don't need hardware cloth, a cage
of ordinary chcken wire will work fine.