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Raised beds and bunnies
Piping Widow
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Hello. We would love to grow our own veggieS. We have a big garden so I was thinking of fencing off an area and putting raised beds inside to grow vegetables. The problem is we have a healthy wild bunny population who visits our garden daily so we need to keep them out. Would it be better to rabbit proof the outer fencing or each individual bed?
If we rabbit proof the beds how high a boundary do they need?
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Depends on how big the bunnies are.
probably have to bury proofing at least a foot or two, L shaped into bottom of trench with the L going outwards if you get my drift, like this -----L-----
If it were me, air rifle and in the pot, looking at the above picture, youre gonna need a big pot
Get some rabbit netting all round the perimeter of your boundary.
(Hedgehogs and birds can still get through it.)
I think it depends on the type of netting used as to whether hedgehogs can get through it. The term 'rabbit netting' seems to be applied to different things - probably according to locality.
If netting your garden, don't forget the gate - it's often the weak-spot in your armour - fix a board across the bottom of the gate and put a hardwood threshold in the gateway - that way it'll be much harder for the bunnies to tunnel under the gate.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As DFA stated netting is sort of misleading, youre looking at rolls of galvinised mesh, 18 gauge with 31mm mesh, not chicken wire which believe it or not they will chew through given half the chance. Depending on the severity of the problem as stated in my previous reply a trench of a foot deep( i would probably go two feet and fill the first foot with hardcore on top of the mesh L shape facing outwards from the property) proper fencing posts to attach the mesh to and attention to the gate maybe a outer and inner gate. Check out Defra and forestry commision websites for advice also plenty on youtube....good luck!