On Jul 5, 11:05*am, (Peter James) wrote:
The past two or three weeks has been a nightmare with the rabbits wiping
out every damned thing I planted with the exception of my broad beans
and rhubarb. *Everything was under plastic netting and they chewed
through it like it was made of cabbage leaves.

It was silly planting out anythng I guess, but a new allotment on a new
site, and I just wanted to get going and plant out. *It puzzles me
though, why the rabbits chewed through the plastic to get at the peas,
beans, cabbages, sweet corn etc, and yet left the broad beans alone and
they're under netting as well? *The rhubarb *is bare in the bed, but
with poisonous leaves they know enough to leave this one well alone.

But, today the agricultural fencing contractor starts to erect the
rabbit prooff fence, and being a believer in belt and bracers, I've put
my own 3' fence in as well. *So damn 'em, see if they can get through
that lot.

Great Uncle Victor told me in 1944, "If youm can't outsmart a rabbit,
boy, then his family deserves the food more than yorn!" With that he
stalked off to the shed and got out his snares. Later in the week we
had the vegetables AND rabit stew.