I located my garden out in the middle of the large open yard where the property is bordered by tall trees on one side. It is a perfect hawk hunting ground. I never have had problems with rabbits.
Just found this jet and I might give it try this year. Deter rabbits with commercially-available deer repellents that contain a mixture of dried bovine blood, sulfured eggs and garlic.
Our wabbits are too fast for Casper, and he's the fastest one we got. I see at least one rabbit every time I go outside. They're everywhere. They must breed like, uh, rabbits. Wait.......wut?
My wife won't let me shoot the rabbits so I put a fence up, it's open season on everything else though.
I've shot 2 so far and have had good luck last year using eggs that I run through the blender and then spray on plants like beans before flowering and such. I feel wasteful shooting them since I won't eat them this time of year. Seems like a lot of them this year.
We've got 2 dogs, and they don't scare the fast bunnies. We had to go with a proper fence this year. I tried a mesh type fence last year. Bunnies ate every bit of my peas, and beans, and a few tomatoes, as and even a few hottttttt peppers.
I've found a good crow deterrent. A stake at each end of the row and a piece of 30lb test running between them.
Got tired of using a hoe to weed the garden. Went out yesterday and bought a cultivator attachment for the stihl weedeater. It works pretty well, still takes some effort, but not nearly as much as using the hoe, a lot faster too. The pigweed was starting to grow throughout the corn. Once that stuff gets established, it's hell to get out by the root. Tilled and fertilized both gardens, planted a 35' row of brussel sprouts and watered everything. Time to sit back and let it grow.
Dry spring here. The gardens would be in bad shape right now if I hadn't mounted the sprinkler permanently, especially since I'm too lazy to haul everything up there once a week.
Looking good. It's so wet here, I haven't had a chance to put my Okra in and I always grow okra. I barely got my peppers in. So we are on opposite sides of the spectrum....
Make small cages from 1/4-1/2" wire and place around seedlings once they have grown a bit remove and they will leave them alone
Try crushing some tomato leaves into a spray bottle with water - natural insecticide, won't work the black beetles that defoliate my tomatoes here obviously Sevin is a fairly common pesticide that covers quite a few bugs and I keep it on hand.
Picked squash last week ~4-5 with some montreal steak seasoning sautéed they were tasty. Picking a handful of cukes here and there and more squash, cukes going in salad tonight, more going in vinegar for tomorrow Early Girl tomatoes have overrun their cages ~5' high already, several set peppers. I need to weed before I post pics
