any advice on keeping rabbits out

Hi!
I've dug ditches and put in chicken-wire, I've wrapped trees in protectors, put canes and fleece / plastic sheet round vulnerable plants and only plant things that are supposedly not attractive to rabbits! I can't keep my plants wrapped up! Any suggestions?

 

snares

 

Take care with snares, some kinds are illegal

 

One of the problems of gardening. We lay out beautifull lawns, flower beds and vegetable patches that, to a rabit, are as attractive as a summer's picnic.

If you have properly secured the boundary with deep set chicken wire held down with soil, stones and bricks then rabbits will be unable to get in. Be especially carefull with gates as well because they will find the smallest of gaps. Then all you have to deal with are any left inside.

May I suggest one of these It may not cure the problem but you could have a lot of fun trying :D

 

A Doggy would see off your rabbits but a dog is for life. I have squirrels and in the summer they enjoy my two hazel nut trees, a smaller version of frogesques link may necessary.

 

SHOOT THE BUNNIES AND MAKE LOVELY RABBIT STEW

 

Have you tried sacrificial planting?
You plant a patch of their absolute favourite foods & they're so busy munching this that they don't bother with the rest of your garden;
or at least they will be bunched closer together so you can take 'em out with your blunderbuss.

 

Snare. Shooting.

Totally appalled at your sugestions

 

Recipe suggestion
take one rabbit,
and pop in pot
add veggies
pop in aga for 4 hours

 

Never read the famous old 17th century recipe for jugged hare?

It begins "First, catch your hare."!

 

Thanks for all suggestions - I've used chicken wire in back area, but the front is open plan, and would be extremely expensive to fence in - that's the problem area. I can't use snares, as we have dogs. Sacrificial plantiung is a good idea, but the space we have won't make having a big enough bed to do that a practical proposition, and I have to go for mini-beds. And I'm vegetarian - [I'd use an exlamation mark there, but my keyboard won't let me]. I think I'll probably have to put things in tall pots until they mature, and can take their chances, and maybe try a few in manufactured cages.

 

I've been recommended to try "Grazers Rabbit Repair Kit" - I'll give it a go, and report back on success or lack of it! I hate rabbits!!

 

These folks could help you Nixon.

 

lol

 

good job no one from Portland is reading this ....RABBITS .... you cannot use THAT word
!!!!

The people on that Island which I refer to as Alcatraz(due to the prisons) have to call them bunnies and I know what they would do if they saw one. Still it doesn't help you though.
(maybe a model buzzard!)