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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 |
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"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... Here's a wonderful solution. Go here, buy one, and learn to use it safely: http://www.slingshots.com/ Now, go here, and pick a recipe: http://italianfood.about.com/blind67.htm Eating well is great revenge. :-) |
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One year I had my entire cabbage crop cut off by them. The next year I
planted a garlic clove between each cabbage plant, and they left them alone. I wont promise it will work, but it did for me. Dwayne "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 |
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"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 |
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"bthache" wrote in message ... 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. The foxes are the reason you don't have rabbit problems or seldom see a groundhog. Val |
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Valkyrie wrote:
"bthache" wrote in message ... 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. The foxes are the reason you don't have rabbit problems or seldom see a groundhog. Val I wish I had a fox or two. I'm tired of groundhogs! -- Bonnie NJ http://home.earthlink.net/~maebe43/ |
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"Bonnie Espenshade" wrote in message
... I wish I had a fox or two. I'm tired of groundhogs! Although I may sound like one, I'm not a hunter. But, I have a friend who battled groundhogs in her garden for years, and finally gave up. She bought a pellet rifle, got good with it, and found that groundhogs were pretty tasty. There's an LL Bean cookbook which includes recipes for small creatures. Search at Barnes & Noble with the words "LL Bean cookbook" and you'll find it. |
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