Homemade rabbit cage guard

Here's an easy way to keep rabbits and other critters from eating your veggies. It's simply 2"x4"x48" wire mesh cut into about 2-3' lengths and cut/formed at the ends to prevent entry. Trim the horizontal end pieces off leaving the 2" wires every 4" and bend into a semi-circle with the wire ends sticking into the ground. I can attest it works well. Hopefully the picture will help. It's my lettuce transplants and radish seed just emerging. I hope they won't go after the garlic which is outside the cage.
Dave.

Can't they just dig under that cage? I always thought you had to put a barrier at least a foot underground around whatever you are trying to protect.

I have the best luck with Liquid Fence spraying.

Well, I suppose they could, but for me it works.

We're awash in rabbits here and they've never attempted to dig under the plastic deer fence I use around my garden or even to push it up and slide under it. Maybe we have particularly unambitious rabbits.

I wish we had you all's rabbits - ours must be particularly ambitious and determined. Both jack rabbits and cotton tails dig under everything and chew anything green down to the ground. I think it has something to do with the fact that we live in a desert, the ground is pure sand, there's mostly only sage and tumblewee -- and, besides us, it doesn't look like anyone else is fool enough to try and actually garden here. Definitely have to go a foot down in the ground here. I garden in raised beds with sides that come up above the bed about a foot (in the desert, we WANT the shade in the summer!) with chicken wire loosely laid over the top - that seems to have worked so far... We are enclosing the "orchard" in fencing this year.

Liquid Fence didn't work for us - and rabbits are supposed to not like garlic, either, but they chomped garlic this winter - but at least they left their fertilizer pellets in return! Still, I'm happier here in the rural High Desert fighting the Rabbit Wars (so far it's a draw) than living in the city and the suburbs, that's for sure.

Digital_Dave, I am so jealous - looks like you have some nice DIRT (soil) there -- and some healthy transplants!

The only reason we have real dirt is 28 years of composting. The native "soil" here in the Ozarks is pretty poor and chock full of numerous chunks of broken limestone that keep coming up no matter what. Locals call them Ozark potatoes.

I should have mentioned that we also have a night-hunting black cat named Worf who kills small rabbits and other vermin regularly.