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Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
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Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
Hi all! We bought a new home late last summer and now I'm planning my first SFG. Here's the issue, which I hope won't come off sounding bratty: Our backyard is on a very pretty creek, with open views to many neighbors' yards, all of which are really lovely and well kept. I don't want to break the mold! However, the rabbits and raccoons love the creek just like we do and I need to plan for them. I've seen suggestions to sprinkle things like cayenne or black pepper around a garden as a pest deterrent, and I'm curious if anyone has experience with this. Alternately, what are your most esthetically pleasing ideas for barriers? (Low-cost, of course, is the kicker. Unfortunately we've spent our "improvements" budget on the house itself.) I think the chicken wire cage in the book isn't too bad, but I'm curious if anyone has thought up anything else.
Katerrific- Posts : 2
Join date : 2013-05-03
Location : St. Louis Park, MN
Re: Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
I go to a wholesale food supplier and buy a 5lb bag of black pepper and sprinkle liberally around the garden.
The other option is a BB gun -- if it's legal in your municipality.
Another option is "predator" urine; such as fox or coyote, or something like that, that you can spray around on low spots around the garden.
Best of luck!
The other option is a BB gun -- if it's legal in your municipality.
Another option is "predator" urine; such as fox or coyote, or something like that, that you can spray around on low spots around the garden.
Best of luck!
slimbolen99- Posts : 185
Join date : 2013-01-15
Location : Shawnee, KS
Re: Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
For a balanced eco system, is it really in the best interest of all the creatures there to be spreading all sorts of noxious stuff about? Or shooting them? Also, the water source will be used, one way or another, by all the wildlife in the area... water is vital to life......
If you want to protect your garden from wildlife that wants a feast, fence in the whole garden...
If you want to protect your garden from wildlife that wants a feast, fence in the whole garden...
43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
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Re: Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
Here's something a bit different that I do around my beds besides chicken wire:
High enough to deter, yet low enough to reach in and work.
High enough to deter, yet low enough to reach in and work.
I am my gardens worst enemy.
RoOsTeR- Posts : 4316
Join date : 2011-10-04
Location : Colorado Front Range
Re: Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
The Scarecrow motion activated sprinkler:
http://www.amazon.com/Contech-CRO101-Scarecrow-Activated-Sprinkler/dp/B000071NUS
Or a short electric new type fence.
http://www.amazon.com/Contech-CRO101-Scarecrow-Activated-Sprinkler/dp/B000071NUS
Or a short electric new type fence.
Lindacol- Posts : 777
Join date : 2011-01-23
Location : Bloomington, CA
Re: Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
A cat and 12" beds seem to work for me. I noticed that my newest 8" bed is getting chewed on lately. May have to fence that one in.
Also, table top beds would work. You can put that in the search box and see all kinds of beauties.
CC
Also, table top beds would work. You can put that in the search box and see all kinds of beauties.
CC
CapeCoddess- Posts : 6824
Join date : 2012-05-20
Age : 68
Location : elbow of the Cape, MA, Zone 6b/7a
Re: Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
Hot pepper flakes may end up in their eyes and cause serious damage. It gets on their feet, and they use their feet to wash their faces. You might want to try something else. Some cats have been known to literally scratch their own eyes out the burning was so bad. At least, that's what I read. It makes sense.
jazzycat- Posts : 596
Join date : 2013-03-12
Location : Savannah, GA
Re: Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
I know that this might be a bit late in the season but I have heard and am trying this year myself that if you plant onions around the outside of you garden that the bunnies will smell them and leave. They don't like the smell. So far they have left my peas alone that have the onions in front and behind them. My green beans I planted garlic around and they have been getting munched on.
mschaef- Posts : 598
Join date : 2012-03-12
Age : 37
Location : Hampton, Georgia
Re: Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
Thanks for posting that. It would not have occurred to me.jazzycat wrote:Hot pepper flakes may end up in their eyes and cause serious damage. It gets on their feet, and they use their feet to wash their faces. You might want to try something else. Some cats have been known to literally scratch their own eyes out the burning was so bad. At least, that's what I read. It makes sense.
Thankfully, I've never done it so no posthumous guilt, phew!
My solution was to fence the whole front yard in. Expensive, yes. But with a brook out back and my property being a natural funnel for the wildlife coming into town, the cost of the project was worth it for us. We had to save up for it (took us almost 3 years of gathering materials) but in the end I can't tell you the relief it is to see greens growing where I used to wake up to (or come home to) devastation.
mollyhespra- Posts : 1087
Join date : 2012-09-21
Age : 58
Location : Waaaay upstate, NH (zone 4)
Re: Attractive or invisible bunny/raccoon deterrents?
I have used this in the last 3 years and it works great. It prevents my chickens, my dog, and squirrels away from the vegetable garden. I don't have a problem with rabbits but the fencing is 42 inches. It's a polyethylene mesh that is easy to set up. I was even able to make a simple door by cutting it and attaching clips to the poles; it includes clips with hooks. It almost looks invisible in the picture in the link, but it is clearly visible at close range.
Good luck!
http://www.gardeners.com/Pest-Fence/8586794,default,pd.html?start=5&q=fencing
Good luck!
http://www.gardeners.com/Pest-Fence/8586794,default,pd.html?start=5&q=fencing
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Roseinarosecity- Posts : 315
Join date : 2011-08-14
Location : 10a - San Gabriel Valley - Pasadena, California
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