Tips to prevent rabbits in your landscape

Rabbits are all year round and frequent visitors in gardens and landscapes. As children, we read and worship these furry animals. This love for rabbits often faded when we got older and damage our gardens and landscapes. By using various management strategies, we exist with these cute but insatiable members of our community.

Rabbits eat a wide range of plants during spring and summer, including flowers, vegetables and weeds. While these plants fade in autumn, they start eating with trees and shrubs. You may find that bark gnawed, evergreen needles nibbled and branches, stems and buds are cut off the plants.

Your sharp teeth make a clean cut like a bypass sparkle at an angle of 45 degrees. Rabbits usually occur within 3 feet in front of the floor, where they can easily reach and dine on the plants. Find tracks and feces that are often referred to as pellets when additional information is required. The pellets are small, round, hard and normally gelby brown too green.

Our landscapes offer the perfect habitat for rabbits. They tend to concentrate in open grass areas, have the stains of desirable covers such as brush piles, shrubs and gardens that escape from predators.

These short -lived mammals are usually very productive and have two to six throws of four or more babies in one season. Diseases, weather, predators, hunters and cars help to limit the number of surviving descendants.

First remove hiding places such as brush piles, weed stains and piles of stone where rabbits can be living and hidden. Work with your neighbors who may not see that they are rabbits in both yards. Leave a few weeds and maybe some clover on the lawn as an alternative source of food for you.

You will find lists of rabbit-resistant plants, but as gardeners know that they eat almost all plants when the populations are high and the food is scarce. Protecting the most important gardens and plants helps reduce the risk of damage and increase your enjoyment.

Fence is an effective management strategy, but may not be practical or aesthetically appealing. When using fences, make sure that it is high enough to keep rabbits away, and the openings are 1 inch or less. A 3-foot fence with an outdoor line at the top or a 4-foot is more effective. Attach the fence to the floor or bury the lower centimeters to prevent rabbits from crawling. Check the gate and add the feger as required to prevent rabbits from gaining access to the garden.

Use 4 feet high cylinders made of hardware fabric to avoid young trees and shrubs to avoid damage. Place the cylinder several centimeters from the trunk and bury the lower a few centimeters in the ground to prevent rabbits and volumes.

Repellentics are a less intrusive option and more practical for many gardeners. Select a product marked for rabbit control and preferably an organic option such as Plantskydd (Plantskydd.com). This odor base is rain and snow -resistant, so that you have to use again less frequently. If possible, apply repellents before the rabbits start feeding and follow the instructions of the label to achieve the best results.

Evaluate and fit your landscape design as required and continuously monitor them for damage. Use various strategies to reduce rabbits and at the same time increase your joy and productivity of your garden.

Melinda Myers wrote over 20 garden books, including “Midwest Gardener's Handbook, Second Edition” and “Small Space Gardening”. She organizes the great courses “How to grow by Anything immediately video and DVD series and the nationally syndicated Melindas Garden -Moment radio program. Myers is a columnist and contribution editor of the Birds & Blooms Magazine and was commissioned by Tree World Plant Care for her specialist knowledge in this article. Your website is www. Melindamyers.com.