Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Jim a visit to the local zoo is in order. Bring a 5 gallon bucket with a lid and
go to the big Cat section. Mountain Lion or Bob Cat pooh is what you are after.

When you get it home take a hand trowel full and put in another bucket and
make a soup out of it and then strain it and put it in a sprayer and spray the
perimeter of the garden from the fence and as far out as you can past your
property line by 10 to 20 feet if possible. This is a greeting card to not just
rabbits but to all critters that there is a major predator that enjoys their
company for dinner.
Next, by some Nylon stockings that are just shin high. If you are married ask
your wife she can direct you. Fill these with the pooh and deposit them around
the garden and around the yard. And if you want to just drive the point home get
a sound affects recording of a mountain lion and play it out in the yard at
night when it is nice and dark and that should seal the deal. When two out of
three senses are screaming PREDATOR nibblers stay away.

Example: My mother in law lives in the southern Coast range of Southern
Oregon near Gold Beach. She had her husband create a large Flower Bed for her
and filled it with Jackson Perkins Award winning roses. They sell for about $50
a pop and she had dropped about $750. So there they were and they were just
blooming away and she was just a really happy camper until late September when
the Elk drifted down to the garden and ate all the roses as she watched
helplessly. She called on me to cure this. So I used my Predator elixir and pooh
bags. She replaced all her roses and the following year the Elk came down the
path from the woods and then stopped. Took a hard right and trotted about a
quarter mile down the tree line and then proceeded to there winter grazing area.
They have done so ever sense.

Yes you have to repeat the process every year because the bunnies have short
life spans..... and are as smart as a bag full of hammer heads. But it is free
and it is organic as it gets. Of course if you are and omnivore you could
dedicate a section of the freezer. Three or four of them make and excellent
stew!
jeff

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From: James Wolf <james@jewolf.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, April 11, 2011 7:37:26 AM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] Rabbit Problem

Hi,

I am new. I am a small farmer in CT raising grassfed beef. poultry for
meat and eggs, veggies and fruit. All is non-certified organic.

We had a bad rabbit problem last year and I want to create a barrier
this year.

I have read the usual about poultry netting down 6', out 6' and up a
foot or so. But so far as I can learn galvanized poultry net rots in
about 2 years and hardware cloth in 4. It would be a lot of work to
replace it for a 100' X 100' garden. I believe that rabbits will chew
through plastic net. So what solutions?

I wonder whether coated netting lasts a lot longer.

My favorite idea is to fill the trench with stone with a small amount of
soil to hold it in place. Anyone have experience with this? Thoughts
on size stone and size of the trench?

Any other ideas?

Jim Wolf in CT

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