All those cute bunnies did a job on our beans and peas this spring. Now we have a (hopefully) bunny-proof fence around our seasonal garden. ( photo / image / picture from marlingardener's Garden ) We've got green beans, sugar peas, English peas, and carrots up, and the lettuce is just now appearing. The spinach is still hiding underground, but with a bit of sunshine it will appear, too. Now, if only the fence does its job, we will have fresh veggies for our Thanksgiving table.
Hi Jane,..well done,..its amazing the amount of work Bunnies and the like create for us,..i hope you have kept them at bay and enjoy a bumper crop.
How lovely is that! You did a superb job there. I have had to enclose my entire garden area because of rabbits. I was not happy about that but it was necessary if I wanted to have flowers and veg. Do I see that the hives are also inside the fence? Well, congrats on that very professional-looking fenced-in plot.
Sjoerd, the hives are just outside the fence, about six feet away. Having them inside the fence would have made harvesting honey more difficult. Netty, when you fence your garden, leave about a foot of wire at the bottom turned outward. That keeps the bunnies from getting under the fence and wreaking havoc! We used ^-shaped pieces of wire to anchor the fencing to the ground. Finally, a use for all those extra coat hangers!
Your fences look great Jane and I'll keep everything crossed that they keep those bunnies at bay. What a pity we can't do the same to halt slugs and snails in their tracks.
Great, Jane! I had a g.hog eating my Fall crop of lettuce this year...grrr! It ate off quite a bit before I was able to catch it. I even put an electric fence around the garden, but I thought it was too high and K thought it was a deer eating off my beans and lettuce. I never did get a crop of 1/2 runners from the garden this Fall due to it's persistent desecration in that garden. I sure hope yours is a better fix than mine was.
Great fence, that should keep those pesky wabbits away from the veggies......unless........I wonder.......If a wabbit can't have her veggies, then perhaps they become meat eaters? They get stronger, are able to lift heavy objects and operate wire cutters. Hmmmm, do any of the rabbits have tool belts? Jerry
Jerry, as far as I can tell, rabbits don't have opposable thumbs and therefore have difficulty with tools (thank heavens!). However, several of the rabbits have been giving me the "harey eyeball" when I'm out!
