Where do you live Gerry, down here, in Devon, they have eaten loads of stuff in my garden, it's bare in places, the only upside is that I go out each day, pick up the many piles of dropping for the compost bins.
the farmers haven't been out shooting for a couple of years so now over populated again leading to sickly and diseased ones.
You will have to change your plants to ones they don't like.
I am making a list and have started seeds for next years rabbit proof plants.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Sorry i know we're making light of this problem but rabbits are hard to keep out and control i know from experience gained over nearly 20 years of dealing with them. Fencing is your best bet but its expensive and hard work as you need to dig down and bury the netting. Perhaps you know a local kid with some ferrets or a keeper that can help control them. Ask around especially in your local pub eventually you will find someone willing to help but i'm affraid you may well have to suffer a few more menu suggestions as well.
It is jo but not best near houses or livestock and pets. You can also trap the rabbits using letter box traps again its a bit of work but does work well.
We had quite a lot of trouble with rabbits until we adopted two young moggies. Although the cats are in at night, the rabbits packed up and left within weeks. A friend who does not like cats has terriers, with the same result.
Bushman, it is fine to recommend traps,(for rats, crows, magpies or bunnies) but unless you know exactly what you are going to do with what you catch they are no use, and if the traps kill you have to be prepared to dispose of the bodies. Thank G** for the waste food bin!!
I love rabbit stew, but some people are very squeamish.
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Afraid rabbit pie would be my solution ... (please excuse me - I'm a farmer's daughter)
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Where do you live Gerry, down here, in Devon, they have eaten loads of stuff in my garden, it's bare in places, the only upside is that I go out each day, pick up the many piles of dropping for the compost bins.
the farmers haven't been out shooting for a couple of years so now over populated again leading to sickly and diseased ones.
You will have to change your plants to ones they don't like.
I am making a list and have started seeds for next years rabbit proof plants.
They make good curry, like dove i'm a country lad and ex gamekeeper.
Unfortunately we don't have a shotgun, only an air rifle which is ok for vermin, but wouldn't like to use it on rabbits.
spicy rabbit kebabs or as my friends 10 year old son calls it bunny on a stick!
Sorry i know we're making light of this problem but rabbits are hard to keep out and control i know from experience gained over nearly 20 years of dealing with them. Fencing is your best bet but its expensive and hard work as you need to dig down and bury the netting. Perhaps you know a local kid with some ferrets or a keeper that can help control them. Ask around especially in your local pub eventually you will find someone willing to help but i'm affraid you may well have to suffer a few more menu suggestions as well.
It is jo but not best near houses or livestock and pets. You can also trap the rabbits using letter box traps again its a bit of work but does work well.
Get yourself a young Goshawk, train it to the fist
The worst thing they ever did was introduce myxomatosis, awful disease and a long lingering death...
We had quite a lot of trouble with rabbits until we adopted two young moggies. Although the cats are in at night, the rabbits packed up and left within weeks. A friend who does not like cats has terriers, with the same result.
I love rabbit stew, but some people are very squeamish.
And where, Fishy65 would one acquire a Goshawk?