Sacha wrote:
On 21/5/08 20:04, in article ,
"Rusty Hinge 2" wrote:
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Garden being overrun with rabbits. Not long moved here and had problems
getting anything to establish due to wind. Took advice and have planted
beech, juniper, heather and holly.
Were growing away nicely and now holly all nipped off at base, same
with young beech. Heather been 'trimmed' back to about 2" high. Juniper
ok but I'd like a bit of variety.
Any ideas?
You can get plastic coiled protectors.
Otherwise, rabbits are excellent in pies and casseroles.
Recipes available.
You can get electric rabbit proof fences.
They are a maintenance (as in mowing etc.) nightmare in my experience.
We have 9 acres of land on which there are hundreds if not thousands
of rabbits. We have electric fencing for our horses so, if it really
worked well, adding some rabbit proof electric fencing woud be easy.
The problem is that any low level electric fencing of a significant
length presents (as I said) problems of keeping the grass and other
weeds down. You can't mow close to the fence without damaging it,
strimmers are almost guaranteed to come to grief (and/or destroy the
fence). It might be OK for a small (i.e. few square yards) rabbit run
to keep rabbits in, or even for a small vegetable plot, but for
significant areas it isn't a good solution. Farmers use electric
fencing quite extensively but not for rabbit proofing.
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Chris Green