Christopher Howard
Seedling
Hi everyone. I'm looking for advice and experience regarding animals eating your trees.
In my area, I've dealt with rabbits for as long as I've been into gardening. They've eaten my roses, a Jacqueline Hillier Elm, a 3 foot Japanese Maple, a Pussy Willow, and a Japanese White Birch all to the ground. The roses I tried putting a plastic fence around and the rabbits ate a hole through the fence to get to them. Now it's chicken wire in the winter. The maple, birch, and willow were all in a fenced off area I thought nothing would be able to jump but I think they used a snow drift as an entrance last winter. Even though all the trees I'm ground training now are in that fenced area, I feel like they need even more protection. A fence around each tree it seems.
They're very persistent pests.
I wonder what others have had to deal with in their experience and what others have done to deal with such problems. I'd hate to have to keep growing my trees from the ground up every year because these nuisances keep finding a way to impede the growth of my plants.
Anybody's personal advice would be much appreciated. I live near Chicago and the animals I see around here are rabbits, chipmunks(horrible for digging holes in pots), squirrels, moles, & deer(though they never come around my neighborhood.)
Thanks everybody.
In my area, I've dealt with rabbits for as long as I've been into gardening. They've eaten my roses, a Jacqueline Hillier Elm, a 3 foot Japanese Maple, a Pussy Willow, and a Japanese White Birch all to the ground. The roses I tried putting a plastic fence around and the rabbits ate a hole through the fence to get to them. Now it's chicken wire in the winter. The maple, birch, and willow were all in a fenced off area I thought nothing would be able to jump but I think they used a snow drift as an entrance last winter. Even though all the trees I'm ground training now are in that fenced area, I feel like they need even more protection. A fence around each tree it seems.
They're very persistent pests.
I wonder what others have had to deal with in their experience and what others have done to deal with such problems. I'd hate to have to keep growing my trees from the ground up every year because these nuisances keep finding a way to impede the growth of my plants.
Anybody's personal advice would be much appreciated. I live near Chicago and the animals I see around here are rabbits, chipmunks(horrible for digging holes in pots), squirrels, moles, & deer(though they never come around my neighborhood.)
Thanks everybody.