While we love having our pet rabbit to help with making free fertilizer, wild rabbits can be quite troublesome for your garden. These small mammals like to eat a lot of your greens and can be tricky to manage once they know where the food is. It is important to keep them out of your garden to protect your food!
Treatment Options:
- Placing an automated sprinkler to scare the rabbit away is helpful.
- Rabbits are scared of larger predators. Applying blood meal around the perimeter of your garden has been shown to deter rabbits. Rabbit repellent, fox urine granules, or even human hair and urine can help to deter them as well.
- You can also use a live animal cage trap to catch them.
Plants to Especially Watch For:
- Basil
- Beans (bush & pole)
- Beets
- Broccoli
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Collard Greens
- Fruit, such as:
- Kale
- Lettuce
- Mustard Greens
- New Zealand Spinach
- Oregano
- Parsley
- Peas
- Radish
- Spinach
- Sweet Potatoes
- Swiss Chard
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5 thoughts on “Garden Pests: How to Manage Rabbits in Your Garden”
No one traps rabbits in our neighborhood because they are not very big. The larger jackrabbits taste like . . . . well, like jackrabbits, so no one traps them either.
Haha! I make Dale take them up the road and release them so they can bother someone else! lol!
Oh, so that is where they have been coming from. I thought that they were breeding like . . . well, now I know better.
LOL!