Graham Harrison wrote:

"wind'n'stone" wrote in message
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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?




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wind'n'stone

Don't be squeamish.
Air Rifle.
Make friends with your local ferret man.
Find someone who keeps carniverous birds that eat rabbits and invite him
over.
I don't believe there is such a thing as a rabbit proof garden - they
*always* find a way in so the above measures are necessary.

The above measures are pointless, they'd not have any significant
effect on an area with lots of rabbits. We have a man with a ferret
who potters around occasionally, I have a brother-in-law with an air
rifle. The *only* point of what they do is to kill a few rabbits for
eating, they have no significant effect on the overall population.

To keep the rabbits down by shooting them you'd need several people on
patrol all the time, and they'd have to be good shots as well.

To give an idea of the sort of number involved my brother-in-law
counted over 20 rabbits in open view within 50 yards of the house, the
population is denser further from the house. When we go to feed the
horses there is a sort of wave of rabbits retreats across the field.

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Chris Green