This is whats left of the sunflower house:( The rabbits wouldnt leave it alone, and ate all of the beans and sunflowers. The calendulas made it though. I used to always think that rabbits deserved respect, that you should just expect part of your garden to be eaten...and while I still sort of feel that way, they are eating everything! Every garden is being nibbled on and they are not leaving anything for us.The are also eating and digging in the veggie beds. They decimated the beans so we ended up fencing it off.
We will probably end of fencing each individual bed next year *sigh*. I did not want to have to do that, not just because of the cost and work involved, but its ugly:( I am trying to make this an attractive and functional garden....oh well.
2 comments:
Oh Nicole, I am SO sorry about the death of your sunflower house at the hands, er, mouths of rabbies and ??? In my book Trowel & Error I share organic ways to thwart bunnies, like sprinkling talcum powder over tender young plants. A Mennonite man at one of my talks told me that his version is to sprinkle flour on plants that are being attacked.
I wrote Sunflower Houses in 1991 and have seen hundreds and hundreds of photos of successful sunflower houses. Please fence as you thought and try again. It's worth it for the children if not this year, then next year.
Thank goodness you have lots of energy!
Green blesssings,
Sharon Lovejoy
check sharonlovejoy.blogspot.com for a book drawing later this week
Thanks for the advice!! I actually do have both books:) I keep meaning to try the talcum powder but we had so much rain I didnt know if it was worth it.
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