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["Doreen Howard" <doreenh@ticon.net>]

Ginda,
I had similar problems with rabbits eating the blueberries and rhubarb last
year.  I made little cages with chicken wire--diameter slightly larger that
the plant--and just set them around each plant.  I pinned the cages to the
ground with wire wickets I made--mostly so the cages wouldn't blow away in
the wind. That stopped the damage completely.  Other blueberries and a
juvenile lilac I forgot to cover were eaten to the ground within a couple of
weeks.  Those rabbits have voracious appetites.
Doreen Howard

-----Original Message-----
From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
To: nafex@egroups.com <nafex@egroups.com>
Date: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:00 PM
Subject: Re: [nafex] Rodent Damage


>I was raking leaves this morning and noticed that rabbits have already
>started nibbling away the buds from my blueberry bushes.  I put a 2'
>chicken wire fence around them this afternoon.  Do you think this will
>do the job?  I'm worried they will dug or push under the bottom of the
>fence, which is just attached to those metal poles--the kind you sink in
>with your foot on the "t", and that has holes and tabs stamped into the
>metal to attach fencing to.
>
>The fences is taller than the bushes, so if they get covered with snow,
>I expect the bushes will be okay.  They're also on the top of a slope,
>so they're unlikely to get covered with snow unless we get more snow
>than usual.
>
>Thanks,
>Ginda Fisher
>eastern MA, zone 6
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