How to Keep Rabbits out of Your Garden

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Planting a vegetable garden can be a great pleasure, but rabbits can easily decimate your hard work. Follow these steps to keep rabbits out of your vegetables.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

Poultry wire
Garden netting
Motion detectors
Clover plants
Onion plants
Hot pepper sauce
Fox or coyote urine
Corn cobs
Vinegar
Human hair

Block the Rabbits from your Garden

Step1

Build a two foot high fence around your vegetable garden to keep the rabbits out. Poultry wire works best. Bury your fence about eight to ten inches below the ground to keep rabbits from borrowing beneath it. Make sure you keep any gates closed since rabbits will find this a great way into your vegetable garden.

Step2

Raise your beds about eighteen inches off the ground.

Step3

Buy some garden netting or anti-animal netting and place it over your vegetables. You should be able to find netting at a local garden supply store.

Step4

Install motion detector sprinklers. These will turn on whenever a rabbit approaches your garden, sprinkling them with water and scaring them away.

Step5

Sow clover around your vegetable garden. Rabbits will eat clover over vegetables and may fill up on the clover rather than your garden.

Step6

Plant a double-row of onions around your garden. Rabbits don't like onions and will find another area to forage.

Chemical Solutions to Keep the Rabbits Away

Step1

Dilute hot pepper sauce into water and sprinkle onto your plants. You will have to reapply after heavy watering or rain.

Step2

Sprinkle fox or coyote urine around your garden. Large animal urines are available at many gardening or farm supply stores.

Step3

Get some human hair from your barber or hair dresser and sprinkle it around your garden. In addition, human hair is a great fertilizer for your vegetables.