Zoomer, plant things that you hate and I guarantee the rabbits won't touch 'em and will concentrate on your favourite and most expensive plants!
I'm not helping am I?
Seriously, unless you can use chicken wire or high raised beds like FG says there is little you can do. From my own experience of having just one wild rabbit making home under my shed I can tell you that the littles will eat almost anything.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Plants are most vulnerable when they are new or when the rabbits have little alternative choice of food. Some plants that rabbits are most likely to be avoided include:
Agastache foeniculum
Alcan rosea (hollyhock)
Alchemilla
Anemone blanda
Aquilegia
Aster
Astilbe
Brunnera
Borago officinalis (borage)
Convallaria majalis (lily-of-the-valley)
Cyclamen
Digitalis (Foxglove)
Epimedium
Euphorbia
Fushia
Galanthus nivalis (snowdrop)
Geraniums
Hemerocallis (Day Lily)
Iris
Lamiums
Lychnis chalcedonica (Maltese cross)
Malva moschata
Miscanthus
Narcissus (Daffodil)
Nepeta
Nicotiana
Osteospernum
Paeonia
Phormium
Potentilla
Pulmonaria
Sedums
Starchy Byzantina
Verbena
Vinca
My fear is that rabbits have varying tastes in different parts of the country so what they avoid in my patch might be different from yours! They also seem to have a fascination with anything new. The feeding habits of rabbits depends on how hungry they are and how much choice of food they have so maybe the best policy is to get your next door plot to grow lots of plants that the rabbits adore (only joking!).
I've put a rabbit proof fence in but went across the plot with it at the bottom due to the roots of two huge tree stumps being in the way.
We think the rabbits get in off the train line and judging by where their droppings are and amount it looks like they party on the plot next door.
I read today, rabbits aren't keen on onions, garlic, shallots and leeks. l may grow these down there. I've also got Hollyhock, foxglove and lots of geraniums.
Was thinking of growing a none invasive ivy (if there is a variety) over the train track fence but also putting chicken wire at the bottom.
Something has already been on the plot eating dug up spuds.
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Zoomer, plant things that you hate and I guarantee the rabbits won't touch 'em and will concentrate on your favourite and most expensive plants!
I'm not helping am I?
Seriously, unless you can use chicken wire or high raised beds like FG says there is little you can do. From my own experience of having just one wild rabbit making home under my shed I can tell you that the little
s will eat almost anything.
Plants are most vulnerable when they are new or when the rabbits have little alternative choice of food. Some plants that rabbits are most likely to be avoided include:
My fear is that rabbits have varying tastes in different parts of the country so what they avoid in my patch might be different from yours! They also seem to have a fascination with anything new. The feeding habits of rabbits depends on how hungry they are and how much choice of food they have so maybe the best policy is to get your next door plot to grow lots of plants that the rabbits adore (only joking!).
I've put a rabbit proof fence in but went across the plot with it at the bottom due to the roots of two huge tree stumps being in the way.
We think the rabbits get in off the train line and judging by where their droppings are and amount it looks like they party on the plot next door.
I read today, rabbits aren't keen on onions, garlic, shallots and leeks. l may grow these down there. I've also got Hollyhock, foxglove and lots of geraniums.
Was thinking of growing a none invasive ivy (if there is a variety) over the train track fence but also putting chicken wire at the bottom.
Something has already been on the plot eating dug up spuds.