Rabbits see your yard and garden as a buffet.
Rabbits may be cute in cartoons, but to gardeners they are often a real nuisance. Keep rabbits away from your yard and garden to avoid both losing your plants and having to clean up after their mess. Certain plants repel rabbits, encouraging them not to enter your space. Be vigilant and replace any plants or herbs you use to deter rabbits when necessary. If the plants are no longer present, rabbits will continue trying to enter your space until you've replaced them. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Use chicken wire to fence off your yard. Install the fence at least six inches deep into the ground -- though closer to a foot offers more protection against rabbits that dig under fences. Use chicken wire with a one-inch mesh or smaller and build the fence about three feet high.
2. Set up a water sprinkler that reacts to motion. When the rabbits come into your yard and are sprayed with water, they won't want to return.
3. Line your yard with capsaicin powder, which is made from very hot peppers. Rabbits crossing the powder become irritated by it and develop an aversion to your yard.
4. Line your yard with blood meal, which is dried powdered blood sometimes used as a fertilizer. The scent is offensive to rabbits but not detectable by humans and it helps balance the soil.
5. Place motion detector frog statues around your yard, which emit sounds. Craig Armstrong, the city forester in Dickinson, North Dakota was quoted as saying that the rabbits run from the sound of the frogs.
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