believe it or not, human hair will keep the rabbits away. my brother-in-law recently planted a whole bunch of petunias and overnight, the rabbits chewed every single plant right down to the ground. i told him to go to the hair stylist in town and grab up some of the sweepings. he poopooed me and just laughed. he called the local landscaper and a MAN told him the same thing. i don't have to tell you how that turned out! 🙄

Walmart still carries the stinky original Irish Spring. I'm still using it.....it DOES work....your right. Link I also have a supply of pink Dove soap...it also "stinks".

Ivory soap bars if you can find them...

Someone on Next door just posted that he uses bloodmeal to deter critters and it’s beneficial to your plants. Fortunately, I have resident foxes that keep the rabbits controlled, so I can’t say if the bloodmeal works.

you can get lots of homemade soaps that people sell that are very strong smelling. Most are even better then the Irish spring bars to keep the deer away.

Does Dove eegular scent work? It certainly drove me from my bathroom. Now the bar is in the garage and I haven’t seen any bunnies in there. Although, this year we do have one in our foundation plantings.

No answer for you, but I'm paying attention. We have have more rabbit trouble this year than ever before. They've eaten all our cabbages, all our eggplants, a third of our pole beans, 70% of our zinnias, all our newly planted Malva sylvestris and two gazanias. They are hungry! We have plenty of hawks in the city, but this year they don't seem to be in my neighborhood. I think they had been keeping the rabbit population down.

OH we have lots of rabbits this year too. Also, we have deer which we never really had before. I noticed yesterday that they'd eaten my Hosta blooms. :(

Repellex seems to work pretty well for rabbits, not so much for deer. But of course you can't use it on food crops. Same with other taste sprays, though they work for deer too--Liquid

Fence, Deer Off, etc.

I live in the mid Alantic area and we have for two years now had an obvious abundance of rabbits! Just extraordinary! You look outisde and the yards are just jumping with bunnies. And, for the first time ever in almost 40 years, I have rabbits under my deck! I wonder what is going on. The first thing that comes to mind is that the predators are missing, for some reason. Something happened to change the balance.

I can hardly grow hostas anymore because the deer will find them and eat them right to the ground! They have yet to find them this year. Anything in the lilly family the deer will eat.

If the Irish spring soap repells animals I can understand, It also repells me. What an awful nose searing smell! I dont buy it but cant help having smelled it in others people's homes.

Does this work on squirrels? I know more people with squirrels pulling up their just planted seedlings or digging for the seeds just planted. We had an entire row of green bean seeds dug up.

Wow! What does it say about the smell of this soap that it repels so many living things? It is one of the strongest smelling soaps, ever!

I used to like Dove in the "rose" version. It seems to me that something has changed about it and both the texture and the scent of it is different.

With smells, it can be personal. What one person will describe as being overwheleming and objectionable might be pleasant to others. But it is hard to argue about a scent when it is truely overwhelmingly strong.

As repulsive as this sounds saving up your own urine to spread around your vulnerable plants works very well for me to deter any critter be they rabbits or deer. Just re-apply it after each rain. The main objective is to turn off their appetite as the critters sniff around your plants and it does the job. Plus, it's free and plentiful.

I DO not put urine...of any kind in my garden. I really can't smell the Irish Spring or Dove...especially at a distance...but urine...or burned feathers...called feather meal...that's NASTY! I want a beautiful garden with sweet flower like smells in it.

I haven't found anything, plastic owls/animal spray/mirrors/propellers... to be effective against squirrels or rabbits.... predators. Great Horned Owls routinely hunt from my roof.....and I live trap squirrels when the population is out-of-balance. (I hauled off 14 domestic squirrels one year. They become a nuisance. The wild Abert population declines.)

nicole -- Have you used that new variety? I saw complaints online. People didn't like the new formula's oils.

A neighbor whose attic was plagued by squirrels gave up on trapping and relocating them. She submerged the trap in a water tank.

I'll look into the Dove idea. I've never used that so didn't know it was *strong*. Hmm...maybe Dial has an overly scented version. Oh, now about Yardley's lavender! I know spiders don't like lavender -- or peppermint.

I need to try this for my rose bush - it was covered with beautiful blossoms (the best since planted 2 summers ago) in the evening, and in the morning had been denuded. Deer. Overpopulated.

chisue....I'm currently "The head of Landscaping" for my HOA. I care for extensive gardens. I'm currently using Irish Spring soap shavings, I purchased @ Walmart. I have a dozen bars of pink Dove I'll use next....

I wish I had known abou this. Something ate all my tomatoe plants--right down the to the ground. Not deer because all my hosta were fine. I don't think the groundhog because he's lived wth us for year and never done that--he usually waits for ripe tomatoes--I was thinking mole/voles.