How to Protect Flowers From Rabbits

Are you tired of the rabbits eating the buds off of your flowers? Those pesky rabbits can ruin a garden that was once beautiful. Here are some ideas on how you can keep the rabbits from eating the blooms and protect your flowers from those rascally rabbits.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 2 rubber snakes
• Foil pie pans
• Flower garden
• Scissors
• Kite string
• Wooden stakes shorter than your flowers

1. Gather all the items needed and go out to your garden where the rabbits are eating your flowers.

2. Place one rubber snake at one end of the garden and another at the other end.

3. Puncture a hole in the side of one of the pie pans with the scissors. Cut off a 2-foot long piece of kite string and thread it through the hole in the pie pan. Tie the string off so it cannot come untied.

4. Place a wooden stake in the midst of some of the flowers and then tie the pie pan to the top of that stake. The pie pan should be dangling down between the flowers. Repeat this until you have a pie pan about every 3 feet square in the garden.

5. Stand back and marvel at your masterpiece. Your flowers are now safe from those nasty rabbits because they'll shy away from the rubber snakes. Also, the pie pans will flash and move with every small breese, causing the rabbits to startle and run.

Tips & Warnings

• You can use small pot pie foil pans if your flowers are small flowers.
• If your flower bed is a large one, you may want to use more than two rubber snakes.
• Do not allow the pie pans to touch the leaves of the flowers. This can scorch the leaves and kill the flower.
• Do not place the wooden stakes too close to the flowers as you can break the roots when placing the stake in the ground.

[jull14]

on 6/15/2009 Such an interesting article and very helpful. I love to read article that can help me,and this one did. Thanks