We had foxes living in the rough bit of the garden at the last house. They did nothing to stop the rabbits.
I didn't like to suggest a gun earlier, but the other option is to see if there's any locals who fancy keeping them in check. That's quite a common solution as well.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A vixen will rarely kill that close to an earth if she has cubs. When we were at The Mill, very early one morning I watched a Guinea fowl following a vixen across a misty meadow so closely she could’ve tweaked her tail. When the vixen didn’t spring around and grab her I knew she must have cubs nearby. I watched where she disappeared into the thicket and later in went and had a look … and found her earth and signs of cubs.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In our veg garden we had to put wire to enclose the area and this has worked. But in the rest of the garden the rabbits have free for all. We cannot wire the whole of our garden. Our son gave us one of those sonic detectors and we watched one rabbit sitting in front of it as it washed its ears!!! A deaf rabbit!!!
After being frustrated by things being continously destroyed by rabbits I seem to have gotten (mostly) lucky by sticking to rabbit resistant plants, particularly as they have grown and become bigger and tougher to eat I suppose? I'm told the lists of plants on RHS website etc. aren't guaranteed to not get noshed and I've still had to protect smaller plants at times but it has certainly become less disheartening.
Yes, stoats will sort them out. We had a walled garden when we lived in Perthshire. When we first moved in there were loads of rabbits but then a family of stoats moved in to a pile of cossies, and the rabbits were gone within a month.
It was lovely to see the stoats playing "tick" between the stones.
Bee x
Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm told the lists of plants on RHS website etc. aren't guaranteed to not get noshed and I've still had to protect smaller plants at times but it has certainly become less disheartening.
We had a walled garden when we lived in Perthshire.
When we first moved in there were loads of rabbits but then a family of stoats moved in to a pile of cossies, and the rabbits were gone within a month.
It was lovely to see the stoats playing "tick" between the stones.
Bee x
A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime