rabbit and deer problem

[drxerox]

our garden backs onto fields and this year we've got a real problem with them grazing the garden - I've just put in a load of perennials and the buggers nip off the flowers - leaving them on the ground, or they just dig up the whole plant and eat it. It's too expensive to fence them out, but I'm getting tired of my garden being destroyed. Any suggestions?

[quoteunquote]

net type electric fencing, go and see what your local farms merchants has on offer, if you put it up properly it will keep the rabbits out, we use it to keep badgers and rabbits out of kitchen garden, poly tunnels and vines.

a scare crow on which you hang the sweaty clothes, keep changing the sweat clothes every couple of days, the deer will not come in if they can smell fresh sweat,

you need to get on top of rabbit numbers, have a cull,

I guess you don't own a lurcher.

[dreamingofsun]

i got some spray from the garden centre. its in a green box and you mix a little with some water. starting using it last year. seems to have worked really well, stopping the deer. think it might be called grazeoff

[flatpackhamster]

Is there nobody in your area who'll come and shoot them? A gamekeeper? You could negotiate with him for some of the processed animals.