i spend all my time trying to outwit bunnies. i've spent many hours but mostly failed.

5 gallon buckets around figs have been working, but i don't have enow for all my plants.

the cursed things eat everything i plant, from tomatoes to honeysuckle.i spend more time bunny proofing than planting.

i was out spraying tabasco on my plants, after  hauling rocks all day to build cages around my plants.

this cute little bunny hopped right into my garden for supper. i threw a rock but missed.

i saw the way he ran, so i got the gun. i finally saw him sitting, sneering at me from inside an abandoned
irrigation pipe.

BAM!

one less bunny to eat my stuff.

Humm... rabbit with fig sauce. It would be a fitting end to your little furry demon.

If it were me I would put his little cute head on a stick in the garden to warn his furry friends of the fate which awaits them if the touch the figs!

would they stay away from dead rabbits?

not gonna eat him. everyone says the jack rabbits taste ick. these are not cute little bunnies when they get big.

that bunny was unlucky that i hauled all those rocks today.
i've started hating them. EVERY  plant i put in [24] has been trimmed or just killed by them.

They are evil creatures!  As are many birds... all birds, and every tunneling and climbing rodent up to the thing they call "deer."!  It's instinct for them.  They make no distinction between ours and theirs.  In their instinct, it's all theirs, but we plant the plants, work the land, pay for the water, fertilizer, and bullets!!  Thank God for bullets and poison!  It's war!!

Suzi

thanks for the support suzi.

this is a battle.

Briased in tomatoe sauce, lots of garlic and thyme should be plenty tasty, plus a nice hide.

I used to have rabbits, one dug out my thyme to make a nest, I got all but two of the bunnies moved to a friends wood lot when their eyes opened, I used to see one of them return but since the dogs are more adept at chasing them, haven't seen one since.  Only problem is the dogs will sometimes chew and dig the figs, it has past for now so I am hoping it stays that way but to see young dog rip an inch diametre branch clean off a nectarine tree is not a happy sight.

Good job Susieqz!,..We put in too much work with our plants,to let varmints have a feast! I got a feeling, Squirrel season is going to open early in Alabama...They already have dug holes in the mulch under some of my newly planted Fig trees, exposing the roots of some!

all you need is a dawg! ;)

Not keeping count, but this is the 2nd animal you've shot in less than a month.  The rattler I understand but a bunny--what'd he do, "nibble your bum" ;)

I can't believe investors put money for such rubbish production, LOL

yeah, i'm turning into annie oakly.

they damaged or killed EVERY SINGLE PLANT I PUT IN THE GROUND.

i was thinking about a puppy, but then people keep telling me dogs  love figs.

dainty little things can be tough.

Classic Monty Python! Why do rabbits (inter alia) always seem to go for what you planted, when there is plenty of forage material all about?

You plant honeysuckle? Hey! If you ever want to swap figs for honeysuckle do let me know.

sure, grey. i'm adding that new honey berry this year, supposed to taste like blueberries.
also planted kintzy's ghost, hall's n fragrent cloud.

There are more rabbits than bullets. Try post pubescent, male urine. I used one trip to the restroom worth diluted in a five gallon bucket and nothing furry (not even the dogs) bothered my trees. Mark your territory!

i'll try anything james. i just sprayed everything with tabasco.

just spent $60 on replacement plants. the others i can save but they'll be set back.

do you have to put pee right on the trees?

Hi susiegz,
Just shoot them, and/or trap them.
I have the same problem but with rodents. I bait/trap them.
I'm not allowing them to multiply first - now is the best time for that. One pair of adults removed is 15 beasts less at the end of the season.
So no fun, but it must be done. I just saw an underground rodent made his "highway" near one of my figtrees . That's a war declaration !
Of course that's a tree that is not protected in an eighty liters trashcan... How lazy am I, sometimes !
But of course you're lucky as with rabbits ... you've got some recipes to test :)

hi, jds. i've been poisoning mice, probably doing bad things to the environment.

that's better than the rep i'm getting as a mad dog gunwoman....

Hey soulmate!  Plant one of those Castor bean plants.  I got some seeds on Ebay.  I planted 5 in a pot, put them on drip, and they all grew, so we planted the entire pot in ground with no gopher protection...  And all is well.  They are growing.  I'm growing poison!  Woo Hoo, and all the critters around here will be recipients of it's gifts!  The poison in the seeds is called "ricin."  You may have heard of it.  Deadly, and you put those beans in and around the garden, you will get a lot of critters!

We do NOT have a dog, but one neighbor does, and the thing barks all night!  I'm not going to poison it, but I'd like to strangle the owners.  It's like we live on a farm here (donkeys are loud, and roosters).  there is one private road going up a big hill.  the road tops a ravine.  Houses are next to the road, and we all have 2-5 acres of no man's land going down hill, and maybe up the next hill.  We had a bbq with the neighbors that don't have a dog.  I smoked chicken on the Traeger, and when I checked the fat bucket, it was licked clean!  By what?  No clue!  At least it didn't bother us sitting outside, and I didn't have to clean it.  There are some animal mysteries we may never know.

Hang in there!

Suzi

 hey, suzi. i've heard about ricin coming from castor beans, but i thot it had to be distilled somehow.

is there enow ricin in a bean to kill a little evil one? and, do mice think they are yummie?

i got this super one meal kill poison. i bot 4 lbs. since they eat the other stuff for days n days. then i found out they don't like
it much. i have to smear  it with peanut butter or they ignore it.

i find the sound of a rooster's crow pleasant. you are lucky.

It only has to be distilled if you plan to put it in a glass of wine to do somebody in, or to grease an arrow, or to inject it.  But it is a bean.  Looks like a pinto bean with amazing designs on it's casing.  Critters like beans.  It is a serious poison, so I just drop the beans (with plastic gloves on) into any tunneling critter hole I encounter, cross my fingers and walk away.

Google it.  The plants are really pretty!  Beautiful flowers!  They grow about 6' tall, and produce a lot of bad beans!  Actually the pods split and they pop out everywhere.

xoxoxo

Suzi

thanks, sweety. i'll see if i can get some.

that plant really is pretty.
a pretty plant that kills rodents is a must.

hoho, agatha christy wrote a story where the murder weapon was ricin mixed in fig paste.

Ricin is actually a bio weapon used by all countries against their enemies.  Our country is the land on which we live.  It's war!

Suzi

turns out, gurneys has those seedscheap. i'll just tack them on another order.