Big Daddy,

I've used it. It works okay. But every time it rains, you gotta re-spray. And yes, it's awful expensive. So, ends up we use it all on Brenda's ornamentals to repel deer and rabbits.

Now, my problem with rabbits is mostly when the plants are young and just put in the ground. After the plants get up say two feet or more tall, the rabbits just nibble the low hanging leaves. When the plants are just put in the ground and still tender, the rabbits cut them off near the base and eat the entire plant.

So, what I've been doing last couple of years is cutting the bottom out of 1 or 2-gallon black nursery tubs and making a surround shield for each plant. Or you can use a piece of PVC pipe. Just so long as you leave the tops of the transplants pokin' out a bit to get sun. Works great.

Any really valuable plants that I need for seed are planted in 10-gallon nursery tubs. I got about 24 of those reserved for seed vines. Keeps the plant 18 inches up off the ground and away from rabbits.

Another thing I do is for those that get a wire cage, I put the cage up the same day I transplant the tomatoes and put some chickenwire around the base of the cage and up about a foot or so, just around the base of the cage. That does it.

Aside from that, any persistent bunnies get a lead pill. The more docile ones get to cohabitate with my tomatoes. Deer are another story altogether! Those devils like green tomatoes too!

Bill, thanx for the feedback. My bunnies are the same as yours. Only eat bottom new tender growth. Last year they leveled my pepper plants and that was the last straw. Thankfully they have never messed with my tomatoes.

You gave me some good ideas. We grow a lot of lilies and I can't cage or surround shield them or masses of zinnias and cosmos and the like, but I can surround sheild other perennials. Love that idea! My son is a good shot but I stink. We have a couple pellet guns (1 rifle, 1 pistol) but I need a shotgun! hahaha

The label says spray, then spray a week later and then only every month. Says it's rain fast so I appreciate you telling me I'd better re-spray after rain or else. At least for the first month or so because like your disease carrying rodents (LOL) mine only nibble new tender growth in spring....;-)

Bill, or anyone, one more quickie? If I mix a batch and don't use it all in the sprayer can I let it sit a week, re-stir/shake sprayer, and apply the remaining content? Or once mixed, better use it pronto? Hate to waste this stuff...$37 for a quart that makes only 4 gallons! Can I claim these bunnies on my taxes? Wonder if Hefner claims his? LMAO!

The solids tend to settle into a thick bottom layer after sitting a while. Yes. So you have to shake to re-suspend.

Another problem I encounter is the solids gum up the spray nozzle and it's a good idea to clear the nozzle or even disassemble and rinse it good before storing it especially in hot dry weather where the solids dry to a gluey crust inside the nozzle. Remember, the solids include egg and that can get pretty encrusted.

And I don't care what the label claims, after a couple of good rains, those bunnies don't seem to mind a little lingering poopy smell and apparently there are some Cajun bunnies in my brood who appreciate a faint peppery, garlic overtone in their greens.

You may also try homemade hot sauce spray.
Add some tobacco and herbs like rosemary to it, let it sit
overnight and then flilter it throug a coffee filter and load up
a bottle sprayer. Also use whatever is on the filter, scatterin it around the base of plkants.
This will work just as good as ant liquid fence, even better.
I don't think rabbits will appreciate that hot habanero heat.
With this, you mist your seedlings/plants.
But you have to do it after rain and dont sprinkle your plants.

Great tips! Just what I was hoping for! Like I mentioned, my rabbits are not easily swayed. I have tried the Bobcat Urine (I didn't know at the time how it was collected or I'd have never bought it) vinegar corn cobs, moth balls (Only near non eddibles) that pepper wax stuff, Hinder and other stuff (way back in my chem days) and NOTHING ever worked. I hope this expensive stuff works! Boy it sure smeells bad! And both guns are ready. The lilies are up a few inches now and the program starts TODAY and of course it is supposed to rain the next 3 days! LOL

try 2 tbs red / cayenne pepper / a lil dish soap or murphys oil soap in 1 gallon of water and spray around plants

I kept a rabbit off my beet tops last year with some cayenne powder shaken over the leaves. Worked for me.