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Post by shin on Jun 16, 2015 20:05:07 GMT
I just moved into my new place and every day I look out the kitchen window which oversees the beautiful backyard.
It's all lawn and trees at this point.
And everyday there is a visitor in back, besides the starlings, robins, and what looked like baby cardinals..
There is a daily rabbit.
Everyday he sits there in the middle of the lawn chewing the grass.
The lawn is still however getting higher and I have to decide whether to get a new or used riding mower.
However much I like the fellow personally, the future of my vegetable garden is in doubt with the rabbit. My elderly neighbor also reports woodchucks and how he'd like to take a shot at one of them.. Poor neighbor he might get in trouble these days if he actually did...
So.. what to do to inexpensively rabbit and bird proof a future garden? Can a birdnet fence tied to stakes do the trick vs. the rabbit? Any better ideas? What's a good looking cheap barrier?
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Post by themotherhen on Jun 17, 2015 3:44:50 GMT
We were having "bunny trouble" also. That rascal chewed up some of my corn. We put in chicken wire fencing, 24" tall and 50 feet long. It took 4 of them and about 40 hardwood posts to fence our large garden. no trouble since then. Our neighbor, with an unfenced garden, is having trouble now. They have never had a garden before, and I advised fencing, but they don't want to bother with it. To me, the money spent in fencing saves the money spent in seed. Chicken wire is cheap, $15 for 2'x50'. Packs of 10 of hardwood posts is $4/each. How big of a garden do you want? This is our biggest garden yet, we are so excited about it!
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