Pesky Rabbit

[jackie j]

I went to my Lottie yesterday and the chap next door said you have had a rabbit on your plot as I thought he was joking I laughed, he said look under your tulips !!! and there was an enormus hole going from my plot under the fence.
A rabbit had got trapped inside my plot on saturday and couldnt get out neighbour helped him out, luckily he had left my crop alone and the only damage was this hole which I filled in.

[chuffa]

He will be back, so get your carrots and onions ready.

[Anne-Marie]

Went to my allotment today and 2 of my teeny red onions have been dug up and the shoots/leaves eaten, but the onions left! I buried them again and hoped for the best.

[crichmond]

Hmmmm time for bbq rabbit on the rottiserie

[dwrudd]

We get the little bighters on our lotties and the 'Commitee' has deemed it illegal to shoot them. They absolutely wreak havoc with the brassica's and so I am looking at other methods, trapping etc to sort them out.

Darren

[Nicos]

Hmmph....
What a loam of nutters!!!!

I used to breed pedigree bunnies for pets and prizes....

Wildlife is another thing...

I've seen so any bunnies with myxomatosis in the wild that I think that it is kinder to shoot them.....BUT....only if the person shooting is VERY accurate)

[Norm]

I have a 1.5m chicken wire fence around my plots. They can't get in.

[JO,JO]

dont think i could kill a bunny x diseased or not.

[Becca]

I can't either, and as my plot was a briar patch until 6 months ago I still have plenty of them living under it.. so far I've found that what they don't know is there they don't go after so I have my salady bits and carrots/ parsnips (not that they've germinated ) under arches covered with fleece and well tucked in and they've survived so far unmolested.. trying out other stuff under cloches made of bottles etc whilst they're still small but will need to report back on that as only just planted out those plants (brassicas) yesterday.. also spent yesterday making the fort knox of beds.. 2 ft tall pieces of tin for the sides, partially buried then topped off with chickenwire.. gonna run some copper\tape round it too in hope of disuading the slugs as well and use this as either a bunny proof coldframe or to grow very vulnerable plants like salads tho i'm a little worried it may get too hot (tried to balance this out by putting it in the shadier patch by the shed but we shall see.. :O) )

[chuffa]

I can't either, and as my plot was a briar patch until 6 months ago I still have plenty of them living under it.. so far I've found that what they don't know is there they don't go after so I have my salady bits and carrots/ parsnips (not that they've germinated ) under arches covered with fleece and well tucked in and they've survived so far unmolested.. trying out other stuff under cloches made of bottles etc whilst they're still small but will need to report back on that as only just planted out those plants (brassicas) yesterday.. also spent yesterday making the fort knox of beds.. 2 ft tall pieces of tin for the sides, partially buried then topped off with chickenwire.. gonna run some copper\tape round it too in hope of disuading the slugs as well and use this as either a bunny proof coldframe or to grow very vulnerable plants like salads tho i'm a little worried it may get too hot (tried to balance this out by putting it in the shadier patch by the shed but we shall see.. :O) )

Becca, where do you get your copper tape from

[Becca]

I bought it at my local nursery I think (springwells near Little Chesterford in south Cambs).. but I'm pretty sure you can get it from big garden centres or online at the green gardener website.. I can never get it to look as neat as in the pictures tho..

[Becca]

here it is
Slug and snail barriers including copper tape, copper rings, hosta halos, shocka rolls and traps
not desperately cheap but has worked when i've used it on pots etc before..