Re: Those motion-detector sprayers
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  • Subject: Re: Those motion-detector sprayers
  • From: J* S* <i*@q.com>
  • Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 18:23:24 -0700
No idea about the rabbits, but interesting about the cats. Don't care for it
much myself, either. But wonder why the cats don't like it.


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On Aug 4, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Theresa G wrote:

> I have recently discovered that the neighborhood cats don't like the
> smell of the shredded cedar mulch.  Maybe rabbits don't like it
> either??
>
> Theresa
>
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Johnson, Cyndi D Civ USAF AFMC 95
> CS/SCOSI <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil> wrote:
>> Hmmm. I guess I need to think about this. My vegetable garden area is
>> all fenced off but it is about 40' or more on a side and there are gates
>> on 3 sides. Long ago we ran small-mesh wire around the bottom of the
>> fences to try and deter the rabbits, but they manage to get in anyway.
>> Now we have some big shrubs and the sheep and horse corrals on the
>> sides, it will be a lot harder to repair or re-fence all that.
>> But maybe there are just one or two places they are getting through and
>> we can figure out where they are.
>> The wind dies down at night, and we see the rabbits at dusk and dawn, so
>> the scarecrow might work in a limited area.
>>
>> Cyndi
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>> Behalf Of Cersgarden@aol.com
>> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 4:21 PM
>> To: gardenchat@hort.net
>> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Those motion-detector sprayers
>>
>> Cyndi, I use the scarecrow in warm weather for the deer and I only set
>> it
>> for overnight protection.   They are very sensitive, a bird or any
>> movement
>> will set it off.   Also, you need to move it about, at least for deer,
>> or it
>> becomes ineffective. When you have deer you become less concerned with
>> rabbits.   The negative is it is connected to running water. I didn't
>> get the
>> connector in just right one time and we woke up to a flooded back yard
>> however
>> it beats anything I have used so far.   It would be desirable to have
>> more
>> than one.   The price has come down on these.
>>    I do use green plastic fencing to keep the rabbits from my lilys.
>>
>> The roll comes in approx 6' height.   We cut it in half and then make
>> cylinders to fit each clump of lilies.   My plants are planted very
>> dense and I have
>> hundreds of cylinders but the fencing just seems to disappear.   I leave
>>
>> them in the garden all year round however the deer make a mess of them
>> in the
>> winter.   My vegetable gardens are completely fenced so rabbits can not
>> get
>> in. We ran a heavy wire at about 4' height to discourage the deer.
>>    Ceres
>>
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