Siwwy Wabbits! Stay out of my bean bed. The rabbits are eating all my beans and so in today’s episode we are showing you how to rabbit proof a raised bed to keep the rabbits out of your garden. Cheap, simple, and affective.
VIDEO: How to Rabbit Proof a Raised Bed Using Chicken Wire
Siwwy Wabbits! Stay out of my bean bed. The rabbits are eating all my beans and so in today’s episode we are showing you how to rabbit proof a raised bed to keep the rabbits out of your garden. Cheap, simple, and affective.
Where I live its groundhogs. They are so destructive and prolific.
Still stuck on the rabbit stew solution
The rabbits are crazy this year. One tried to make a nest in my thyme bed. Covered it over before she could use it. Then this week-end we cleaned out an overgrown bed and guess what! Three little bunnies. Unfortunately, they were carted off by a neighbor and ?? They are not in the least intimidated by people. I can be sitting on a chair in the garden and they just come hopping by. Nature!!
Would this solution work for groundhogs as well?
I have everything wrapped in chicken wire and they do not get in. Once the plants are established especially the tomato plants they lay underneath the plants for shade if I pull the chicken wire back. We have managed to live with them for years now.
You may want to grow a patch or two of grasses, etc or sacrificial plants for the Wabbits to munch on.
after they wiped out my beans, I started chasing them with a fork with murderous intent….they just ran faster and learned fear…..then I set up a 110 conibear trap at their main entrance….blocking all avenues except thru the trap, and somehow they got the hint and stopped hanging around……I had planned on composting them like I did with a groundhog earlier this year….
Amazing sharing..
I had rabbits in my back yard all winter. They kept setting off my cameras at all hours of the night. When it came time to plant my raised bed garden they ate 2 of my tomato plants to the ground. One is still alive but the other one died. They partially ate 3 others but they are doing great. To deter them I strung up aluminum pie plates until I could get some chicken wire. This worked for the short term. Since I have a small garden space, I put chicken wire around the whole garden. No more problems.
Shootem
Make some nice Rabbit stew…lol
A rabbit made its nest in my raised bed of strawberries. I was cleaning out the winter damaged leaves and grabbed a handful of fur which completely freaked me out. Thankfully it was from the mothers fur that she lined her nest with. The rabbits ate my squash seedlings in my in ground bed and when I grew beans in ground they always ate them as well. Obviously they can get in the raised beds and mine are taller than yours but they have not attacked crops in the raised beds.
The rabbits aren't bothering my garden but the deer are destroying everything. I used a trail camera to verify. It's horrible
Get a large cat that can patrol your garden area
I have used chicken wire before. You have to use gloves. I end up cutting myself.
Same thing happened to all my bean plants and marigolds. Those hare(y) suckers decimated them twice! Grrr
I built a tall raised bed years ago (24”). The rabbits never messed with anything in there and was my main place for lettuce and other greens. I was cleaning up and get ready for this year’s garden and found a rabbit nest with four babies. It seams hard to keep them out if they want to come in. Beds without height/protection have been good to go when I have onions or garlic all around the perimeter.
The thing the frustrates me about fencing is that my three year old can’t enjoy picking the veggies!
I have rabbits around here, but they tend to avoid my garden due to all the scent deterrents I use. The same can't be said for the rodent pests though. Groundhogs, rats, and chipmunks have been a huge problem this year, with the rats proving the hardest to eliminate. They avoided the traps I had set out, and I'm not willing to use poison, since that poses a risk to my soil and my pets. I'm currently training my cats to be working cats, and hoping they can at least scare off the smaller rodents.
This couldn't have come at a better time! This week we found our green beans mowed down! We were picking beans and they were beautiful! Now, they are 2 inch stubs! Our neighbor said they've seen a rabbit going under our fence, so off to get some chicken wire! They even ate all the leaves and blooms on the okra!
Your garden is for acquiring food. Your garden attracts rabbits. Rabbits can be food.
I say, take the win.
Rabbit stew
Seattle has had a rabbit plague this couple of years and it only getting worse this year because people are removing (or killing) coyote. In the Puget Sound, they are an invasive species.
The rabbits look at me like I should think they are cute. People who are feeding them will be shocked when next year 50 rabbits shake them down. When you think of biblical pestilence, think rabbits.
Shoulda weeded the bed first haha
Wouldn’t it be much better to secure the chicken wire really well to the stakes, and no the bed and maybe put pvc on the exterior or interior wall of the bed to stick the stakes into. Then you could remove them for weeding and harvesting and put them back into the pvc very easily. Pvc is t even necessary, just figure multiple times in the same spot in dirt after a while they stakes wouldn’t hold as well. Just a thought.