I haven't tried critter lites, but I read years ago that if you provide animals with their natural diet, they won't bother your plants. So we have lots of wild plants growing in our yard: wild grapes on the fence, boston ivy on the walls, hackberry & mulberry trees in the fencerow, etc. It seems to be working.
This spring, we woke up to find one new plant missing every morning . There was a rabbit nesting in our front garden, and she was eating the most convenient plants. I did some research on rabbit diets. I planted a cover crop of oats, barley, peas, and hairy vetch near the rabbit hole and bought Plantskydd (natural and nontoxic), supposed to be really effective in protecting plants from rabbits and deer. The Plantskydd is still unopened, but we haven't had a missing plant in weeks. I can't confirm a causal relationship - the clover started to really take off about the same time I planted the cover crop, and the Plantskydd might be working on the same principal as our air conditioner (as soon as we gave in and bought an air conditioner, the weather immediately turned cool). But the soil is being improved where I planted the cover crop, and I have a bottle of animal repellent if I ever need it. My husband tells me roasting with potatoes and carrots would work even better. BTW, I have a friend who complains about the squirrels taking one bite out of every apple (she doesn't mind sharing, but she doesn't want the squirrels wasting her whole harvest). Last Sunday, I watched a wren chase a squirrel out of the oak tree near the wren house. I'll bet there will be a wren house in her apple tree next year. Vicki On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:11 PM, carl wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have lots of rabbits chewing away in our garden. Does anything humane > work to keep them away? Has anyone tried "critter lites" that glow 2 red > eyes activated by motion sensor? > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20080726/0b7111fe/attachment.html _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
