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Chris Hogg wrote: Our bungalow is adjacent to a field that always has rabbits in it. We see them every day. Their warrens come up to and under our stone garden walls, and we get rabbit holes in the flower beds adjacent to those walls. Rabbits regularly come into the garden. I see droppings on the lawn, and at this time of year, the youngsters are about. They disappear back down the holes sharpish if they're disturbed. But they only ever seem to eat the grass in the lawn, and a few weeds between the patio slabs. I've never seen evidence of them eating any of the plants. OTOH we don't grow vegetables or salad crops. Farmers round here will completely surround a field with netting if they've got stuff attractive to rabbits growing in it. Usually it's the fine pea netting with centimeter holes, supported on bamboo canes. The netting is about a meter wide; two-thirds of it is vertical, the other third lies flat on the ground on the outside of the area being enclosed, and pegged down every few feet or so, to stop the rabbits digging their way under it. Apparently they don't have the sense to start digging a little way back. It's a lot easier to do the fence that way, rather than trying to bury it, and if you just have it straight down to the ground, the rabbits will push or dig their way under it. Chris - thanks very much for this, which definitely looks useful. Thanks also to the other respondents: it is all useful grist to the mill! John |
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