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Article: Those Hungry Rabbits.(protecting flower gardens from rabbits)
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- Hopscotch
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- April 1, 2001
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Planning to plant pansies this spring? You should protect them! Pansies are among the tastiest of salads to rabbits. It can be very frustrating to find that the flowers you've so anticipated were eaten to the ground just a day or so before they were to bloom. Rabbit fencing or citrus soaps placed among your flowers are good ways to keep the rabbits away.
Rabbits can eat at least a pound of fresh green food each day, but they're choosy, preferring tender young shoots of plants to older, tougher stalks or grasses. That places those sweet, little primroses, violets, pansies, and daisies at risk. So protect your garden.
You're most likely to see wild rabbits ...