2024 05 26 - I closed the Bunny's Buffet (hopefully)

Picture: The former fence around my garden.

A couple of days ago my wife noticed that some of the onion sets were laying on top of the ground. We didn't see any holes in the fence so we thought maybe it had rained so hard that they had come out of the ground.

Peas were starting to come up and everything else looked OK.

Then last night we looked closer and all tops were gone off of the peas an beans and the pepper top was gone. And a few more of the onions were pulled up. So ... I looked it up on Google. Little bunnies can get through holes as little as one inch. This fence is 1-1/2 by 3 inches. So all the fence is doing as slowing them down.

So this AM, instead of doing anything else in the garden, I got to purchase a new fence and new seeds. Then take down the old fence, up up the new fence. This one a buried a couple of inches into the ground.

... and I re-seeded the peas and beans. The onions and peppers we will just see if they come back.

My plan was to be cheap and just buy a short, 2 foot high or so, chicken fence and put it inside the existing fence. When we found the fence at the store, the four foot high fence was $12 cheaper than the three foot high fence. We even found a staff person to scan it, yup, more fence for less money. And we bought three 25 foot sections so that was $36. 50 foot sections would have been a little cheaper but they are harder to work with when I want to move them.

My garden is one row too wide to use just two rolls of fence. But it works out OK, I'm using the third roll for one side and then from there, the rest of the fence will match up to my old fence that I plan on putting around my corn until it gets too tall for the deer to chew the tops off.

Besides replanting the peas and beans, I planted a row of peas along the fence that will be between the two gardens. I am hoping that my the time the peas are up and climbing that the bunnies will not fit through the old fence.