Keeping Rabbits Out of the Garden

A little tip I learned from my mother – who keeps an absolutely beautiful vegetable garden, by the way!

She had problems with cute, furry little bunny rabbits coming into her vegetable garden and munching on her veggies. Yes, they are cute and fluffy and adorable – - but not when they’ve consumed your dinner salad!

To combat this – she used a tip that she heard on a local radio program called “Ask Your Neighbor” (it doesn’t exist anymore – but was wildly popular when I was a kid). It was a radio show that ran from 30 odd years, where they brought listeners with questions and experts on various topics like home improvement, do it yourself and gardening – with answers together for a friendly talk show.

Anyways – one of the callers suggested the following remedy for the bunnies in the garden – and to this day, Mom still uses it as a technique to keep the critters out – and it works!

Materials:
Clear, glass Mason Jars (The number will depend on the size of your garden)
Alluminum Foil Pie plates – same number as the jars.
Water

You take glass mason jars (making sure they dont’ have any labels on them) – fill them with water about 3/4 of the way full. Take the Mason Jars and line them up, about a a 1-2 feet apart, along the outter edge of your garden – placing the jars on top of the foil pie plates.

During the day – the water reflects the sun off the jar (and the foil) – - at night, the water and foil reflect the moonlight. This spooks the little critters and keeps them out of the garden.

Well, at least it works for me and Mom!