Plaid,

Some people insist that sprinkling talcum powder on the plants will keep the rabbits away, but I have never tried it myself. I think Sevin dust would keep insects away, but not rabbits.

Another method that some people swear by is to place Mason jars of water around the garden. They insist this keeps the rabbits out. I have always wondered if the rabbits see their reflection in the water and get frightened, or what?

Personally, only one thing has ever really worked for me, and that is fencing. Chicken wire that has 1" holes between the wires will keep out even the tiny babies. It needs to be three feet tall. They can jump over it if it is only two feet tall. If there are even small gaps between the bottom of the fence and the ground, they will come underneath it.

I suppose electic fencing would work also, but I haven't tried it.

This year I have been putting out little piles of hen scratch and sunflower seeds for the rabbits and they are eating that stuff and haven't messed with any of the plants outside the fenced portion of the garden. This approach might not work for everyone, but it works for me.

Good luck with the waskeley wabbits!

Dawn

Blood works well for me in keeping rabbits out of my gardens. Of course, I realize most people don't have access to a lot of blood. :~) I have large dogs that I feed a lot of raw chicken to, and I would thaw out the ten pound bags of chicken in my wheel barrow, then dump the blood around the perimeter of my garden. It worked great at keeping the rabbits away from the garden. You might try blood meal mixed with water and applied around the plants you're trying to protect, but with it raining every day now, it would have to be reapplied often.

Dawna,

I like the blood/blood meal suggestion.

Whenever I use bloodmeal, guess who comes to visit my garden? The vultures. There are lots of them, circling low, desperately trying to find the source of the blood they are smelling. It can be quite a spectacle because they KNOW what they are smelling, but they can't find it. They aren't a problem, of course, but after several hours of them circling over the garden while I am in it, I start feeling paranoid. lol

They react in much the same way to bone meal, but their reaction is not quite as strong.

Plaid,

Another suggestion for a product that is used by many organic gardeners, and one which I failed to mention earlier, is predator urine. Supposedly, if you put the predator urine around the problem area, the critters that are doing the damage to your garden will smell it and will stay away.

For rabbits, the urine you would want to use would be Fox urine. With the original products, you sprinkled them on the ground and had to reapply every so often, especially after heavy rainstorms. There is a new and improved method which involves putting the predator urine in little dispensers that are supposed to be good up to 30 days. I've never tried it and don't know if it works.

Dawn

Here is a link that might be useful: Example of Predaor Urine Products