If wild rabbits hop around in the garden, home gardeners are not happy. A hungry family of rabbits easily eats an entire vegetable patch bare overnight and causes terrible damage to the ornamental garden. It's good to know that you can banish the cute long-eared birds from the field using simple means. How to get rid of rabbits from the garden using gentle means.
How do you get rid of rabbits from the garden?
To get rid of rabbits from the garden, you can make homemade repellents using pungent aromatics such as Tabasco sauce, garlic, pepper or chili sauce and spray them on affected areas. Alternatively, ready-made repellent products with plant-based raw materials such as lavadin oil are available commercially.
Make your own repellent – this is how it works
You already have the ingredients for an effective deterrent against wild rabbits in your pantry or at least on your shopping list. Since rabbits detest spicy aromas, the kitchen provides you with everything you need to make your own repellent spray. This is how it works:
- Pour 4 liters of warm water into a large container
- Add a tablespoon of Tabasco sauce
- Add a tablespoon of detergent or liquid soap as an emulsifier
- Shake the mixture well and place it in the sun for some time
- Pour the finished solution into a hand or pressure sprayer
If you don't have Tabasco sauce on hand, garlic cloves, 2 teaspoons of red or black pepper and chili sauce are a useful alternative. You can optionally use all the ingredients together. With this spicy mix you can spray the ground wherever the rabbits are up to mischief.
Ready-to-use repellent products for gentle repelling
For rabbit-plagued home gardeners who are short on time, specialist retailers offer ready-to-use deterrent products. These only contain plant-based raw materials, such as lavadin oil. We have looked around the range and put together these tried and tested products for you:
- Rabbit Stop from Neudorff as granules for spreading, 1 kg at a price from 9.90 euros
- Wild animal stop from Schacht as a spray, 500 ml bottle priced from 12.90 euros
- Contra-Katz from Stähler as granules or spray at a price starting at 8.80 euros
A new product from Celaflor demonstrates how you can drive rabbits to hell with clear water. The garden guard is equipped with a motion sensor and suddenly sprays the approaching flock of rabbits with a sharp jet of water. A single device protects up to 130 square meters of garden space from cats, martens, foxes, deer and other hungry animals.
Tip
Lavadin oil is useful in numerous areas of gentle, natural defense against uninvited guests. You can effectively keep underground visitors to your kitchen and ornamental garden at a distance with the lavender extract in the form of gas in cartridges. The fine noses of moles and voles cannot tolerate the intense scent either.
