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Monday, June 23, 2008
Garden update
It's looking like a garden! We're now trying to figure out how to keep the bunnies away.
4 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Jane,
It looks nice!
I've had some luck using blood meal to keep bunnies away. I sprinkle about 1 cup for every 5 sq. ft. It may not take that much but that's what I've used with success. Sprinkle it with water afterward. (Reapply as needed.) It doesn't smell very good, but I get to eat my food instead of sharing it with the local wildlife!
After losing last year's entire lettuce and snap pea crop, I am not messing around this year. I built an elevated garden and STILL fenced with chicken wire.
A buddy once acquired tiger droppings from the Cleveland Zoo to keep the deer away. It worked! Any scent related to a predatory animal works, even if it isn't native to the area.
4 comments:
Jane,
It looks nice!
I've had some luck using blood meal to keep bunnies away. I sprinkle about 1 cup for every 5 sq. ft. It may not take that much but that's what I've used with success. Sprinkle it with water afterward. (Reapply as needed.) It doesn't smell very good, but I get to eat my food instead of sharing it with the local wildlife!
Plastic grocery bags on sticks, mothballs. Mothballs worked best for me.
Somewhere online I saw powdered fox urine.
No, really.
Very cool...
After losing last year's entire lettuce and snap pea crop, I am not messing around this year. I built an elevated garden and STILL fenced with chicken wire.
A buddy once acquired tiger droppings from the Cleveland Zoo to keep the deer away. It worked! Any scent related to a predatory animal works, even if it isn't native to the area.
Oh, the zany world of gardening!
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