plant control of rodents in vege garden

[forsythia]

Hi! I am starting a vege garden and was wondering if there are any plants known to deter rabbits, nbvandicoots or any other marauding animal from invading my patch? We have dug down with the fence but thought an extra deterrent might be good. Thanks, forsythia :?:

[Richard on Maui]

What about casuarina? I am thinking you cut off a nice thick branch and make a club out of it. When you see the bandicoot eating your sweet potato's you hit him on the back of the head with your club. They're not bad eating those bandicoots. Sort of like a cross between chicken and pork. :shock:

[Bluerose]

What about frames over the plants?

[SueinWA]

What about a dog?

Sue

[gardenlen]

g'day forsythia,

yes a good dog & fence well anchored for the bunnies (give me hares & wabblies any day of the week much easier to control any sort of fence will work), also if you have possums you may need to go a step or 2 further like ahve the fence around 2 meters high with a run of that flat galv' tin around the outside at the top to stop them climbing over. with scrub/bush turkies you will need to cover the area with mesh.

also try human urine (neat) poured around the parameter of the garden fence.

len

[heuristics]

Do you know I was once talking to a ranger from the Moss Vale Pastures Protection Board (very official, important role!!) and he said that rabbits could climb a 2-metre chain wire fence.
He said he'd been told as much, and thought it ridiculous, until the day he saw it with his own eyes!!!
He said it was a quite a few years ago when he saw it, - yet the shock and awe was still evident in the tone of his voice!

[Mungbeans]

>and he said that rabbits could climb a 2-metre chain wire fence

Whoa! Attack of the Were Rabbit! How about having the dog dress in a bunny suit and lure them away.

(Sorry - the DVD has been on high rotation since we bought it a week ago.)

[Bluerose]

I read a book on wolves a few years ago about a guy who 'marked his territory' to keep the wolves away!

[dryland dweller]

Do you know I was once talking to a ranger from the Moss Vale Pastures Protection Board (very official, important role!!) and he said that rabbits could climb a 2-metre chain wire fence.
He said he'd been told as much, and thought it ridiculous, until the day he saw it with his own eyes!!!
He said it was a quite a few years ago when he saw it, - yet the shock and awe was still evident in the tone of his voice!

Simple solution is to arc the top over so they fall off they cant walk upside down
Pete

[SueinWA]

You don't even have to make a deliberate arc. Just let the top 30cm or so flop loose, and if they try to climb it, their weight pulls it down over them. It works with cats.

Sue