
The eastern cottontail rabbit can be a pesky garden companion, so here are tips to help keep him away!
How to Identify and Get Rid of Rabbits
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We have returning rabbits each year that dig under the brick wall into our crawl space. They have nibbled on the wood beams, and drive our house dogs crazy with their scent. We filled the burrow holes with quickcrete after they left for the season, but they dug next to it the following year. This year we will be cutting down 30+ year old peony bushes and other shrubs next to our home in order to install chicken wire both horizontally and vertically in our flower beds. I really hope this helps.
Do rabbits love hostas? Each summer I find my hosta leaves cut off with only the stalks left. Their favorite is Small leaved plantain lilly hosta. Could it be slugs?
Oh, my. Yes, rabbits love hostas! You’ll often know it’s a rabbit because they’ll eat the whole thing—leaves and stems. With young hostas, they’ll even eat the roots. Slugs are also hosta fans.
I tried the Irish spring this year for the first time and it worked. I grated the soap and sprinkled it all around the garden. I only saw a couple of plants that they had been eating. In the past years I pretty much had to protect everything.
I only have perennial gardens.
Plants are so expensive and some are very hard to come by, it's heart wrenching when you find your plants are gone.
Hope this helps!
There are a lot of bunnies eating our sunflower
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