This jackrabbit showed up and I got a good picture of it before it ran away. A couple of weeks ago when I was mowing, I scared up a deer. There seems to never be a shortage of wild animals around. Ruth has been putting milk powder out around her flowers because the deer do not like the smell of sour milk. The dew at night mixes with the milk powder and it readily sours which gives off a smell that the deer don't like. Otherwise, all she does is grow tasty delicacies for the deer!How do YOU keep rabbits away?
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We don't. They belong to the nature and why should we scare them away. Either there is something left or there is not.
But we grow the salad in the green house where they can't get. So there you go.
Otherwise we don't do much, on the other hand I can tell you that we have no deer. From time to time a fox maybe and a lot of birds (the cherries are always in danger).
They are so cute, keep them away? And then we wouldn't get pictures. You could also make a yummy stew if you catch one, which would surely be good excercise! I do have a book on a 101 gardening ideas with rabbit solutions, so you'll have to look at it when you get here and copy what you like. I'd never heard of the milk part. Do you think that would deter squirrels? Something ate at the roots of our peach tree!!!
The milk is a good idea I was always told to scatter bone meal aas it is fertilizer as well but it isn't (at least to my human nose) very odiferous so it keeps them from eating all of the plany but not nibbling on the tall bits on the edge. Cats and dogs are best fro keeping away rabbits though again bone meal ...they are shorter and don't like being around where things died.
When are you guys coming out again. Aura and I both really enjoyed your visit and next time stay with us so we can play games later :)
I have super scrabble now.
Andrew
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