Dealing With Rabbits
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All righty, let's talk about a problem that almost everyone on earth is struggling with at some point or another unless you're living in some sort of hermetically sealed chamber and no living organisms can ever get to you and if you are then how's life going for you? |
| 0:27.6 | I feel like that might be a little lonely. But we are talking today about rabbits in the garden. |
| 0:34.4 | I can't tell you how many times I've dealt with this question. |
| 0:37.6 | For me, our rabbits is a huge issue. |
| 0:39.8 | They probably will be at the new place. |
| 0:41.5 | I typically dealt with squirrels and skunks at my |
| 0:44.4 | old place, but there are solutions to it. Rapids are quite crafty. They can get in a lot of |
| 0:50.9 | different areas of the garden and it can be notoriously difficult to deal with them but I'm going to offer at least a few different solutions for you. |
| 0:58.0 | Well you need to identify that it is rabbits in the first place. |
| 1:03.2 | Now, of course, seeing them is identification for sure. |
| 1:07.3 | But a long time ago, we had Margaret Roach on the podcast. |
| 1:11.5 | She's the author of A Way to Garden, both the blog and the book. on the marks or the damage marks that are on your plant. |
| 1:23.6 | What you want to look for when you're dealing with a rabbit, |
| 1:25.9 | they're quite precise. |
| 1:27.9 | So they are going to come through and cut off |
| 1:30.7 | a main stem of a seedling. |
| 1:32.4 | It's going to look as if you came through with scissors and clipped them. |
| 1:37.0 | If you have nothing but nubs left, that's probably rabbits. Probably. |
| 1:42.0 | You're also going to want to look for their droppings. You know what |
| 1:45.1 | rabbit droppings look like. They're small, they're rounded, they look like little |
| 1:48.6 | balls, and that's how you know you're dealing with a rabbit. Okay, how do you actually deal with them? |
| 1:56.6 | How do you do it? |
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