Ideas please..
The garden I look after is mown by a couple of large very heavy robot mowers - they are generally my friends - they remove the bore of cutting the lawns which used to take 2 full days a fortnight with a large ride on and smaller mowers/strimmers around the edges. The robots have a weakness though, the garden has rabbits - over the years the rabbits have dug under the 8' cob walls that run round the entire garden, which is surrounded by countryside and fields - which are also full of them.
Rabbits do what rabbits do, digging [small pits, and full on burrows) - fill them and they are reexcavated within a week or so. The robots seem be totally expert in finding and falling into these holes.
Does anyone have anything they fill the holes with, that the rabbits dont like - and therefore re-excavation is less likley to occur - it cant be anything poisionous as there is a much loved pet dog and small children in the house. Before you suggest it (because I have suggested it many times) - guns, air rifle, catapault and other items are not approved of by the owners.
Thank you
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Adam. I had a past client who used to put light gauge chicken wire over the worst areas retained by small wooden pegs hammered in to level with the surface. Has to be well done but it did work with the sward recovering and hiding the wire. Any good?
I will certainly give it a go Peter, and report back - just top soil and the mower still loses traction and then sinks in. I was thinking along the lines of buying a few bags of scalpings, ramming the hole with those and topping off with top soil and seed - but this sounds like an easier alternative
I have heard about grating a bar of soap over bulbs to stop squirrels digging them up. I don't know if it works. Might be worth a try
I just pop down with the shotgun. No rabbits no problem and a free meal
My preferred method too... but the owners seeing me taking aim, or hearing a shot gun would be the end of me being at that garden
Guessing it's the problem of townies moving to the country 😫
I am a country boy & I wouldn't shoot bunnies. There are various rabbit repellants including unltrasonics. A hose pipe left on sprinkler might work as could one of these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuPmyI0woGM
If the rabbits are coming in from the outside, use one or two drop traps to keep them under control (if you don't do anything, they may start burrowing inside the garden). Of course, you have to kill the rabbits when you have caught them....