Are you sure that it is just the bunnies' fault? Peppers in general need a lot of heat. I can grow jalipenos in my SF East Bay garden, but some years are better than others and it really seems to come down to heat.

Are you sure that it is just the bunnies' fault? Peppers in general need a lot of heat. I can grow jalipenos in my SF East Bay garden, but some years are better than others and it really seems to come down to heat.

Guaranteed bunnies. All little nibble marks and the bunnies out-number everything else in the neighborhood. I really need to take my friend up on his offer of the live-trap. Seems he belongs to a gun club that has a bunny hunt every spring, so the members catch local bunnies and release them on the gun-clubs grounds for each spring.

There's nary a night I pull into the drive after dark where we count less than 4 bunnies in the headlights. All different sizes as well, so they aren't even the same 4 bunnies each time.

I tried planting some jalepenos this year, but the rabbits won't leave the plants alone. I ended up with just a pair a scraggly plants with no leaves. :-(

If they are eating the peppers, it could make for some good tasting rabbit.

My wife has relatives who raise mint (amongst other things) commercially. They often will let one or two domestic geese graze in the mint for a week or two before Thanksgiving or Christmas, and then cook the pre-spiced bird. Tastes great.

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I tried planting some jalepenos this year, but the rabbits won't leave the plants alone. I ended up with just a pair a scraggly plants with no leaves. :-(

If they are eating the peppers, it could make for some good tasting rabbit.

My wife has relatives who raise mint (amongst other things) commercially. They often will let one or two domestic geese graze in the mint for a week or two before Thanksgiving or Christmas, and then cook the pre-spiced bird. Tastes great.

Couldn't happen in the USA due to food safety laws. Salmonella mint leaves ... farm quarantined.

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I tried planting some jalepenos this year, but the rabbits won't leave the plants alone. I ended up with just a pair a scraggly plants with no leaves. :-(

If they are eating the peppers, it could make for some good tasting rabbit.

My wife has relatives who raise mint (amongst other things) commercially. They often will let one or two domestic geese graze in the mint for a week or two before Thanksgiving or Christmas, and then cook the pre-spiced bird. Tastes great.

Couldn't happen in the USA due to food safety laws. Salmonella mint leaves ... farm quarantined.

Actually, it is in the US. But I'm not saying where.

And as far as I know the pre-spiced birds are not sold. Just for home consumption.

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I tried planting some jalepenos this year, but the rabbits won't leave the plants alone. I ended up with just a pair a scraggly plants with no leaves. :-(

If they are eating the peppers, it could make for some good tasting rabbit.

My wife has relatives who raise mint (amongst other things) commercially. They often will let one or two domestic geese graze in the mint for a week or two before Thanksgiving or Christmas, and then cook the pre-spiced bird. Tastes great.

Couldn't happen in the USA due to food safety laws. Salmonella mint leaves ... farm quarantined.

Actually, it is in the US. But I'm not saying where.

And as far as I know the pre-spiced birds are not sold. Just for home consumption.

It isn't the birds that is the problem, it is the chance their poop contaminated the mint, it would all have to be plowed under.

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Angela,
We live in Baker City Oregon. My father-in-law was trying to start some new trees and had a problem with the deer eating them. I was traveling a lot then and collected Hotel soaps for him. He hung a few of them in each tree and it seem to keep the deer away.

Have fun
Pellinore

Wow, not even deer want to clean themselves with hotel soap! Go figure. :p

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Are you sure that it is just the bunnies' fault? Peppers in general need a lot of heat. I can grow jalipenos in my SF East Bay garden, but some years are better than others and it really seems to come down to heat.

Guaranteed bunnies. All little nibble marks and the bunnies out-number everything else in the neighborhood. I really need to take my friend up on his offer of the live-trap. Seems he belongs to a gun club that has a bunny hunt every spring, so the members catch local bunnies and release them on the gun-clubs grounds for each spring.

There's nary a night I pull into the drive after dark where we count less than 4 bunnies in the headlights. All different sizes as well, so they aren't even the same 4 bunnies each time.

We had bunnies until a hawk discovered that we had bunnies. Now we occasionally have a hawk, and we have many fewer bunnies in evidence.

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Angela has her critters,
This one of mine is a bit bigger.

Yes he wandered into my backyard. No I don't live next to the forest it is at least two miles of all suburb before there are any wild lands. I guess he liked the rose bush but he checked out the vegetable garden too. I believe it is a California Mule Deer.

It is definitely a mule deer.

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I've tried to landscape my front yard with plants deer allegedly do not like. Problem is, the deer didn't read the same gardening book I read...

My mother discovered that ravens like moth balls. Supposedly, deer don't like the smell, however, ravens like the shiny things...

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I have the greatest respect for ravens. There was a Scientific American article on Raven Intelligence several months ago that was awesome, yet also depressing. It seems these darn birds are quite a bit smarter than many of the children I serve...

I've tried to landscape my front yard with plants deer allegedly do not like. Problem is, the deer didn't read the same gardening book I read...

My mother discovered that ravens like moth balls. Supposedly, deer don't like the smell, however, ravens like the shiny things...

Shiny bubbles, er baubles. ;)

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I have the greatest respect for ravens. There was a Scientific American article on Raven Intelligence several months ago that was awesome, yet also depressing. It seems these darn birds are quite a bit smarter than many of the children I serve...

And now You know why Birds/Dinosaurs dominated this planet for over 140 million years, Among other reasons at least.

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Do remember a dog of mine anno dazumal...

I didn't expect that phrase to be used in Finland! ("Dazumal" is definitely German :-)

I have the greatest respect for ravens. There was a Scientific American article on Raven Intelligence several months ago that was awesome, yet also depressing. It seems these darn birds are quite a bit smarter than many of the children I serve...

The local ravens enjoyed teasing the dog. There would be a group of ravens spread out through several trees. One would dive at the dog and then glide just out of reach as the dog gave chase. Just before it reached its target tree another raven would take off and do the same thing. This lasted until the dog was exhausted.

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Many years ago my wife had an office overlooking an inflated tennis bubble on Vancouver Island. When the bubble was wet from a recent rain or heavy dew, the ravens would land on top, then take turns sliding down the wet plastic standing up, with their wings outstretched. They could usually get to an almost vertical slope before flying away. Maybe I'm anthropomorphizing here, but it looked like a game of dare to me.

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Ugh! A skunk sprayed in our backyard last night. I suspect the cause of the spraying was a raccoon baby (or babies). Skunks only spray as a matter of last resort, but baby raccoons sometimes get skunks to that point pretty quickly.

I did not witness the incident, but my guess it that when Mask and Wednesday return tonight with their Mama, they will both be somewhat fragrant. Our backyard is only vaguely skunky today, which is why I suspect the primary target was something moving, like a baby raccoon.

Oh well, such is the price we pay for regular backyard evening entertainment...

Ugh! A skunk sprayed in our backyard last night. I suspect the cause of the spraying was a raccoon baby (or babies). Skunks only spray as a matter of last resort, but baby raccoons sometimes get skunks to that point pretty quickly.

I did not witness the incident, but my guess it that when Mask and Wednesday return tonight with their Mama, they will both be somewhat fragrant. Our backyard is only vaguely skunky today, which is why I suspect the primary target was something moving, like a baby raccoon.

Oh well, such is the price we pay for regular backyard evening entertainment...

Ah yes, Skunk warfare, Witnessed after the fact by impartial personnel and out of sight of the belligerents. ;)

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