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Re: [SG] Rabbit Problem (was Tall Autumn Joy)

Thanks for the advice on fencing to prevent ground hogs.  Unfortunately,
what I'm looking at is not just one garden bed, but borders along lots of
fencing, a border around my deck, etc.  This is a lot to fence.  SIGH.
Right now I'm planning to plant some more stuff, but just using things that
I know the hogs won't eat (or at least they haven't yet), along with a
couple of new things to see what happens.

In my garden the untouched plants are Mountain Laurel, Peonies, Hellebore,
Iris, Daffodil, Pacysandra (sp), Vinca, Bleeding Heart, Russian Sage (I
forget the Latin name), Astilbe, Ferns.  The deer don't eat these either.
I'm going for lot of herbs in one of my few sunny areas!

Lucinda
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> I used to have a lot of groundhogs and the only way I found that actually
> worked to keep them from munching my plants was to fence the garden with
> wire fencing (doesn't have to be too tall - 3' or so) buried about a foot
> deep in the soil and angled outward - they start to dig under and hit the
> wire and are not smart enough to realize it has an end (these are not
> rocket scientist types).  Used the cheap old  kind with the relatively
> large holes and realized I should have used the kind with the smaller
holes
> at the bottom known as "rabbit" fencing because the baby groundhogs can
> slip right through the regular holes.
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