I love to garden. And I love to watch the bunnies frolicking in my yard. However, I DO NOT love to watch the bunnies frolicking through my garden, eating the green beans.
I took care of the problem, but have to admit to feeling a bit sorry for the little bunny seen from the kitchen window by my better half this morning. Glad I was at church and missed it.
To back up, I went into the garden Saturday evening and found more bean plants chewed off to nubs. I don’t mind losing a few, but this has gotten serious. The plants are starting to flower, there are little beans on them, and they are disappearing rapidly (the plants, not just the little beans). So I went into the house, filled a spray bottle with water, added about half a teaspoon of Louisiana Hot Sauce, and sprayed the plants liberally. (Yes, it’s not Tabasco like it says in the title, but “Louisiana Hot Saucing the Bunnies” made it sound like I was cooking them up for dinner.)
This morning Bud watched a little bunny hop across the yard into the garden, and shortly thereafter watched it shoot out the back of the garden jumping into the air, doing back flips, and in general acting like it was berserk.
Poor bunny. But he’ll recover, and when he does I’ll bet he leaves my beans alone.
No actual bunnies were poisoned, trapped, killed, or in any other way permanently injured by this method. It works equally well with groundhogs, deer and other large herbivores. CAUTION: Do not use close to harvest time, and wash produce well before consuming.
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