Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Hi Jim,

In my experience how much you have to work on the fence depends on how much pressure you have from rabbits. Meaning the size of the population vs food availability.
I am on 2 acres in a neighborhood, most houses around me do not have fences, and we see a fox at night from time to time and have a couple of hawks that leave nearby. I have clover mixed with the grass, and rabbits love it.
My veggie garden has a 3' fence, it is the plastic coated metal fence (green), I got it at tractor supply comp.
I used staples on the bottom, about every 2 feet, and I have not had problems with them getting in, we have had the fence and garden for 3 years now. Rabbits did chew through a plastic fence i tried on the first year and will eat sweet potatoes and greens if planted outside the fence. They do not bother toms, eggplants, onions.
A friend who lives 15 min away in a neighborhood with small yards and privacy fences has a terrible problem with rabbits and chipmunks eating everything, they had to bury the fence and put a cage on lettuces as the rabbits jumped the 3' fence for the lettuce. I imagine that the tight spaces and fencing makes it harder for the predators to hunt, and grasses do not provide much forage as they do not like Bermuda as much :)

HTH,

Yara Silva
Roswell GA
Zone 7b

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