Everyone, is it possible that rabbits can eventually get past any of these products??? I have used Deer Away. I have used dried blood. I have used blood meal. And pepper mixtures. Everything works, at least for a day or two, and then on the third day, each and everything seems to just stop working. I have lost over 300 annuals this year. Just this week, about 90 impatiens..........gone. We have been very dry here in southeast Missouri, so raining isnt an issue. I use soaker hoses to water, so there is not overhead watering. Can bottom watering cause these repellants to wash away? I cant see how it would, if dew doesnt wash away either. Can you advise just how often to use the pepper mixtures?? I'd do it daily, if I thought it would work all the time. Our latest strategy is to shoot at them in the evening. We do not shoot them, I would NEVER allow that. But, it really does seem to help scare them away, just by blasting that gun a couple times. My husband and son were gone ONE night this week, and did not shoot at them. Sure enough, the next morning, I had lost all those impatiens. I cant understand why they would touch these plants, which are just outside of our dog kennel, with our dog barking at them all night, but leave the ones alone that are out of sight from the dog. During daylight hours, they run away when the dog barks. Doesnt make sense!

Rabbits seem to like beans and peas best but also take out lettuce and chew on broccoli. Deer have eaten potato & tomato plants and have also pulled off and crushed tomatoes - both green and ripe. They also seem to prefer beans to everything else. Coons are a problem in ripe corn but not otherwise. The key there as been to harvest the corn as soon as it ripens, never leaving any ears just sittin' around in the garden. If I didn't plant corn, I don't think I'd know they were in the neighborhood. Steve

Hi, I moved out into the country in NW Iowa two years ago, and excitedly bought "wildlife" bundles from my state forestry department. Dh and I planted over 200 little shrubs, trees, etc...we were so hopeful (and soooo naive!) By Spring the rabbits had decimated nearly every little tree, eaten my rosebushes to nubs, and so forth. Well, not learning my lesson, I spent a small fortune on larger shrubs and trees the next year; they were chomped on, too. You should have seen my "mad and angry dance" last Spring, as I discovered the damage. :-) Well, I'm older and wiser, now. My shrubs nearly all live in their *rabbit wire* cages (it's sooo ugly but a lot less infuriating) and I'm not sure when I'll have the courage to remove them. Rabbit wire--sold at my local hardware store--is a bit more expensive than regular chicken wire, but it's sturdier and makes tidier cylinders. It's heavier gauge, has small openings in the botton and larger openings toward the top (so the shrubs can grow through the wire) and I'll never plant without it, again! By the way, I have EIGHT cats and even though we've hardened our hearts and stopped rescuing the screaming, pitiful baby rabbits that they cull in the Spring (my daughters still scream in horror, though.) it doesn't seem to have cut down the rabbit population very much. My husband *does* go out in the dark of night and "mark his territory" (need I explain further? ;-) around the perimeter of our vegetable garden, and that seems to cut down on the predation in there...However, unless I force-fed him a keg of beer every night, I doubt he could do the same for all the shrubs, trees, and flowers on the property. LOL!

"They just take a single bite or a few bites out of one fruit. The only other thing ever got eaten was bush green beans last year." Talk about Deja-Vu, I am having the same _exact_ issue. I've never had issues in years gone by, but I this year I expanded my garden to grow more variety. I am growing bush green beans, cucumbers, beets, watermelons, asparagus, and a couple of other things. Whatever it was was eating the leaves off of my cucumbers, my bush green beans (leaves and beans), and eating tomatoes (leafs and larger unripe fruit), the last straw was when they ate a larger unripe tomato (probably about 2 weeks from ripe), two of my young asparagus plants, and a baby watermelon. I went out one night and put up rabbit fence around my whole garden, not knowing what it was, as I was heading out there to put the fence up - I was face to face with the culprit, a huge groundhog. He stood there and stared at me and didn't even bother to move until I ran towards him with the fence posts, lol. So here's my vote towards it being a groundhog. I have tons of rabbits in my yard, but they seem much more content eating the bountiful amounts of clover in my backyard and I rarely see them near my garden. I had suspected them until I saw a tomato taken that was about a foot off the ground and saw that it was carefully "plucked" from the plant, no way a rabbit could've done that.