Rabbits

OK...the coyotes, hawks and owls aren't doing their job! Rabbits are eating my perennial onions and leeks to the ground - little $*)@#'s! Will chicken wire 2' high keep them out? Can't bring myself to shoot 'em.

Buster

Although I don't have a rabbit problem, I would think 2' chicken wire would keep them out. When I shopped at Lowe's for chicken wire, I found that it is now called "poultry wire" - the plastic kind might not work, rabbits/squirrels can chew through it.

I use it to keep my little dog, Chloe out of the herb bed!

The photo is of Chloe's third Christmas.

Chloe must be a doll even if she gets into the herb garden. My daughter has a German Short Hair Retriever (Otto) and he just loves to smell roses and chew on the chocolate mint - his breath smells like a peppermint patty!

I purchased the wire today so my rabbit problem should go away!

Buster

Wow I have never seen a short eared Chloe rabbit.Are they as good eating as the long eared ones?

eweed - Not quite as tasty as a jackalope!

H Bee since Jackalope is rather stringy I guess we will have to keep Chloe around just to look at boy he she is cute.

eweed - thanks :) We think Chloe is special, too. Her job is to keep the squirrels out of the garden, and she takes it VERY seriously.

H Bee my crew I had one more but she died this summer at 14.

Buster it worked for me for a while then they dug under. Here are some onions they didnt get.

eweed - that's a terrific looking garden.

Are your dogs from the same litter? I love their coat color. I bet you miss your girl that died :(

H Bee no dad is 51/2 mom is 5 1/4 and baby james is 2 1/2 when we bought dad we rejected 129 puppies and got him sight unseen by us but my son told me dad she is trying to sell me the other one. Stick to your guns you want this one.

back to the garden

eweed - what kind of onions are those? I want mine to look like yours!

Just planted my onions on NYD. They're looking a bit sad after two nights of frost (I did cover them). I hope mine look like yours soon!

You need one of these for the bunnies! A bunny-buster if ever there was one!

eweed- I am also in WA- tricities- When did you plant those onions? Is that photo a recent one? This year has been so cold- down to 9 last night! My garlic is green but is struggling. I don't have any onions out- I usually buy transplants in the spring but would love to have some overwinter. Don't know how to go about that.

I recently acquired a pet rabbit, Peter, from a rabbit rescue organization in Denton, TX so he could provide manure for my garden. Now if I could just teach him to go directly in my raised beds.

hrp50, there was a thread not too long ago regardning a rabbit tractor similar to a chicken tractor.

Terri

Is she part corgi, she looks it. Corgi's are great for keeping rabbits and anything else out of the yard except voles and things that have to be dug out. Our Bonnie is past it, she's almost 16, but in her day...

Yehudith

JoParrot you live next door to some of the greatest onion growing this side of texas.They overwinter a lot of onions. Most onions have a 270 day growth cycle to full maturity.

To over winter you need to plant in Aug or very early Sept so the onion can get a good bit of top growth but no real bulbing before the cold and low light slows the growth to maintenance.In the spring it will take off and finish it's growth cycle.

Most onions have a 270 day growth cycle and you can't get that even in this balmy maritime area without overwintering.I don't know what sprays farmers use to ward off mildew but I can't overwinter without getting mildew which just wrecks the plants.So I do the next best thing to over wintering. I buy onion plants in the spring that have been grown for about 6 months else where.

Garlic is tough I wouldn't worry to much about it.It would probably benifit from a nice thick layer of straw mulch but it is a little late now spring is just around the corner.

yehudith, Santo is a Corgi. He's an odd color and color patern for a Corgi and the breeded made him available as a pet quality dog (whatever that means). My best buddy (a Corgi) died suddenly and I was very sad so DH went out and bought another for me. Then we came accross a rescue corgi, so now we have two Corgii (sp?) and two other rescue dogs. Rabbits just don't stand a chance in our yard or garden. Between the dogs and the natural predators here we rarely even see a squirrel even though we have several native pecan trees and a number or oaks on our property.