My sister Lori wrote me last year asking for advice about her new vegetable garden in St. Louis. They have loads of little bunnies. Apparently they’re extremely persistent and have been known to eat even jalapeño peppers! She was worried they will eat her yummy new lettuces, carrots, radishes – and considering their track record, even her tomatoes.
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How to Keep Rabbits Out of the Vegetable Garden:
Humanely, Organically, Frugally, and Sustainably.
Note that many of these solutions will work for deer, raccoons, coyotes, and various varmints as well.
1. Build Raised Beds. You don’t have to build formal raised beds, but even if you mound up the dirt as we did, it confuses them. Ours beds were also sloped, so that may be a further deterrent.
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3. Mulch. I’ve read over and over that for whatever reason, mulch deters deer, rabbits, gophers, moles, voles… I don’t know why, but seems to work. We use straw mulch, because it’s cheap and plentiful, and eventually it will decompose and become plant food.
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5. Plant a Perimeter of Things They Don’t Like. Garlic, onions, chives, catnip, lavender, and marigolds are all deterrents according to several sources. The Old Farmer’s Almanac recommends planting a double row of onions. ……….
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7. Put a layer of mesh or other material over the hardest hit plants. You can use wire mesh, burlap, or hardwire cloth for this. You can build a loop-wire tunnel as well (we usually have one over our greens).
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9. Plant Clover and Other Bunny Favorites in Another Area of the Yard. This is the decoy effect: if you feed them well with their favorite foods, they won’t need to eat your veggies. What do bunnies like? Goldenrod, wild strawberries, clover, dandelions, wildflowers, alfalfa, and long grass.
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