Stop Peter Rabbit and His Friends From Killing Your Trees and Shrubs
Posted by: Andrew Brunelle in Gardening Online Add commentsRabbits love tree bark, they gnaw all around trees and shrubs that have particularly tasty bark. When they manage to gnaw all the way around your tree it will die.
Last year my local rabbit colony managed to kill a flowering currant I had planted the year before.
This year the rabbits have taken a shine to a sweet chestnut tree I have in my garden that cost rather more than the flowering currant. I might be too late because they have taken off 80% of the bark at ground level in a ring around the trunk.
I am tempted to set rat traps to catch the little bunnies and make rabbit pie like Mr McGregor wanted to, but I was persuaded against that option, just yet.
What I have done is to wrap chicken wire around the trunk, about three times, which seems to have stopped the problem becoming any worse.
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