YAWN YAWN WAKEY WAKEY PART 2....... 2019

Good morning all my friends ,thunder and lightening all night but not much rain,I am cream crackered had to stay up most of the night,looking after Penny she doesn't like storms,have a good day

 

Good morning @Flumpy my friend and thank you ,I will try this afternoon

 

Aloha everyone,

We've been away and had a lovely time.

The garden is doing fairly well but the damage from rabbits is extremely depressing and, at the moment, I feel like giving up gardening. They have now destroyed enough plants to have taken a few hundred pounds away from the handicapped children.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

The problem with that suggestion is that we watch plants that we have been nurturing for 47 years die or be destroyed (many of them of sentimental value) and that we stop growing plants that help support the charity. The biggest type of sale products (apart from those sold when we open the garden) are the vegetables, where we raise anything up to £1,000 per year for mentally handicapped children. This also encourages others to donate to the charity and they would lose at least another £1,000 per year. We already donate to other charities and there's a limit to how much we do so.

Just saying 'grow something else' doesn't really help when we have been growing our own favourite organic veg for over 50 years!

It's not just us and there's already some very drastic actions being proposed by people in the area. We're happy to live alongside the squirrels, deer, badgers and others but the rabbits are getting completely out of hand.

 

@Flumpy Thanks for the info. I saw it but, firstly it doesn't appear to work for rabbits and secondly, it needs an open space to work in as it uses PIR. Rabbits are animals that don't co-operate in that way. They tend to creep through all the plants and undergrowth - and chomp things as they go!

The more annoying thing with them is that they don't eat the plants but just cut them down. They've chewed through the stems of over 100 runner bean plants, chopped down hundreds of Lychnis (they just bite them off a few inches above ground), are now cutting down Verbascum and Dahlias and seem to be attacking a lot of the flowers that we grow for the bees so are removing their habitat as well.

We'd be quite happy if they stayed on the lawns and ate the grass or if they restricted themselves to the 3,000sq ft of wild garden - but they don't!