I had a nice Echinacea growing with a big bud about to open, now something has ripped the side of the stem. It looks like someone took a fingernain (or a tooth?) and raked the side of the stem and dug it out. This plant is about 2 feet tall.
I have seen a rabbit chewing on my lobelia and have since been having adventures in hardware cloth, with the scratches to prove it. Can a rabbit have done this?
I hope the picture is good enough.
Another of the stem:
Here's a sunflower seedling I just planted out with it's head chopped off. Is this a rabbit?
I used to like rabbits.
MLM,
I like rabbits, pan fried, stewed, or sauted, ;) LOL
Best;
bluelytes
ROFL....I have never eaten rabbit, but that may change...the one in my yard is so fat he could probably feed us for a month ;)
MLM,
Rabbit is TASTY, and you get MORE meat and MORE protein pound for pound than chicken!! And its ALLL WHITE meat, ;)
Best;
bluelytes
Just don't look it in the eyes......
mim, I think the only animal that would/could take a sunflower head off like that is a deer. It wasn't a rabbit-they are too tall for them to reach. Look for deer tracks around the plant on the ground. I can usually tell what direction they are coming into the garden from, and sometimes I can block their path. They seem to follow the same path on their nightly expeditions ( i.e they enter your yard from the same direction everytime and leave at the same place)
My next-door neighbor told me that "rabbits are only cute in a skillet!". Baby rabbits are the most difficult to control. They seem to chew on plants that adult rabbits never touch. They can slither right through a chain link fence. They also don't seem to be fazed by the smell of Liquid Fence! I'd like to remove some of my chicken wire, but that would be the same as opening up the salad bar!
LOL...you're neighbor is smart :)
That's unfortunate about baby rabbits because I just saw one last night.
I've sprayed my plants wtih deer-off and pepper spray but the hardware wire enclosures are staying up for at least a while.
tigerlily123,
I understand you're reasoning about the deer but there is no other evidence of deer and because of where the seedling is the deer would have to step over other plants and through the bed to get to it. Also, after 15 years I have only seen a deer near our backyard once.
I'm going with hardware cloth tubes for my sunflower seedlings from now on.
Maureen
edited to make sense
This message was edited Jun 8, 2006 12:18 PM
