Everbilt 3/4in x 3ft. x 25ft Black Plastic Poultry Fence
The cutest baby rabbit is again in my garden this spring. Last year, rabbit would eat grass in the middle of the lawn while we were having dinner outside. Roses and rabbits don’t go together, especially young roses.
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It sounds like an Agatha Christie novel😂😂
Your roses should flourish with the care you provide them. It will be exciting to see the roses progression. Happy gardening
Thank you for another wonderful video Olga. My allies for keeping unwanted rabbits and other pests from my garden are my dogs. DISCLAIMER: if you do not love dogs they are not worth the extra work to have them in your yard and garden. But if you love dogs, and you are willing to take a year to train and teach them that "No, you can't dig holes in my lawn and no, you can't chew new branches off my rose bushes," ( you would think rose thorns would teach them that, but they don't😀) then you will find they are very effective at keeping rabbits and other animals away. If you put the work into training them, you will have a faithful and loyal gardening friend for many years to come, that is energetically committed to keeping the rabbits away.
Great idea!👍❤️😎
Omg thank you for posting this video! My entire garden has been wrecked by deer — we also have moles, and rabbits!….and l am always looking for other methods to try! I literally just posted a video of all the damage in my yard😣
Haven’t had a problem with rabbits… yet. I am worried about deer tho. They cross our property at night to get from one woods to the next. One thing I’m doing is planting my tiny roses in larger pots for the first year or two to let them get bigger before facing the world.
Oh my god this is perfect this is exactly what I need I have the same problem as you with the rabbits and my new baby roses… Can you post a link to the exact one you bought at Home Depot?
I admire gardening shows such as Gardeners World. They are always talking about attracting wildlife of all kinds to the garden. Here in America, if we want to have a garden at all, we have to be careful of the wildlife we attract! Not only can the garden sustain damage but so can the structure of the house. I have been gardening for 20 years. My first garden was destroyed by voles. Squirrels chewed through the roof soffit and nested in our attic. Carpenter bees drill holes like swiss cheese into our wood trim. Squirrels also love to sharpen their teeth on my metal water fountain. At some point, you have to draw the line and protect your investments. For the voles, I use chicken grit and gravel in planting holes, raised the beds, and lined the bottoms with wire mesh. With both the voles and squirrels, it helped to remove the bird feeders. The only birds I feed now are the hummingbirds. I also use hot sauce paste around the metal to deter the chewing and carpenter bee traps.
Hi Dear Olga….it Is so beautiful…. thanks for sharing your garden with us..💮🌻🍄🌼🍁
Such a good idea!!
Oh my gosh, I need that book! LOL Thanks for sharing that paragraph with us. I used to feed our birds but the squirrels! We have chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, and deer (on occasion). Two falls ago, I planted almost 500 tulip bulbs. I went through several large containers of cinnamon and layered the cinnamon with the soil. It worked. No squirrels digging up my bulbs that year.
Thank you for this video, I laughed at the story you read from the book. I can relate so much but my fear was the voles. I have sprayed vole repel all over my yard and stopped feeding the birds. I think it’s helped. Your videos are always so helpful!
We have squirrels, bunnys, chipmunks, and a groundhog. The rabbits are too abundant this year. We often have hawks nest nearby, and they help keep the population under control, but I haven't seen them yet.
I love your channel. So calming and beautiful in your garden. I love to see you dance on occasion. Perhaps one day you will sing us a song…..
Hi Olga! So my LOS bundle of 5 came and one of them was a rose olivia but they replaced it for me. I used chicken wire to protect them from rabbits. They are all doing good thanks for all your help
An amazing women and gardener! Thank you so much, Olga!
What a great idea. Hope all is well🦩🌺
Great idea and they look so nice until your roses grow it’s perfect. Hi to everyone Olga.
The other day, I was sitting on the lawn pulling small weeds (best to get them young) under a tiny tree when a bold rabbit hopped so close by. Yesterday, same thing. I watched it eat a yellow dandelion flower (fine, have at ALL of those) and since I was blocking its usual path I wondered how close to me it would get when he ducked through a small hole in my wire fence where a previous neighbor cut to remove a volunteer tree stump.
I have a roll of similar green plastic netting I used around some shrubs last fall, but wind knocked the circle over and I never fixed it all winter. So it probably wasn't effective.
My DA roses look dead. We have had a late spring in Minneapolis. Just a couple warm days and hydrangeas buds are bursting with new life and weeds everywhere. Hopefully, my roses will be fine and show new growth. Some old Therese Bugnet shrub roses that were never bothered in the past I see someone gnawed on branches bark this winter. Time to thin the old shrubs.
I have only had deer eating my roses but not rabbits.
Olga, I've been a subscriber for over a year now and enjoy your channel. I live in a wild area of Montana and was told I could not grow things like roses and tulips because of the deer and rabbits. However, I do grow roses and tulips and many other things. I use a combination of spray repellent (Plantskydd), physical barriers like yours, and garden design. Re design, I keep the perimeter of my 2/3 acre wild. This gives the deer, rabbits, grasshoppers, etc. something to eat and they mostly leave the flowers (which are closer to the house) alone. I use things like nepeta around my roses since rabbits don't like that plant. Also, we have a dog and I think that helps. I bought a Lady of Shalott rose because of you.
I have found that sprinkling human hair around my susceptible plants does the trick for rabbits. I just ask my stylist to reserve some from her dust pan. Easy peasy and it’s invisible. We also had a problem with raccoons under our garden shed, and I just filled the entry and exit holes with dog waste. Then thoroughly watered it down the hole. They moved on! Thank goodness 😅