Tip of the Day - Bunnies Don’t Like Spicy Food
Posted on June 20, 2008 by
I promise to do a real garden update next week. Well, I don’t promise, but I’ll try to. In the meantime, I will give you a quick idea of what’s going on. Bunnies. Eating. Everything.
“But, Allie,” you say, “don’t you have a big, hulking, wolf-like dog? Doesn’t he scare off the bunnies?”
The answer is no. No, he doesn’t. They are brazen. He has no prey drive. They coexist. The bunnies will run away from me if I run outside like an idiot stamping my feet and yelling, but if I send Argo out first, those bunnies seem to know that he comes in peace. Argo goes to pee on his favorite pee spot (a humiliated shrub) and the bunnies keep munching on my strawberry plants.
I need another way to tell the bunnies they aren’t welcome.
WikiHow says bunnies aren’t a big fan of hot sauce, and have a recipe and instructions for making a spicy spray to fend them off.
Should I leave them some sour cream to cool off their little tongues?
What if you just plant a perimeter of spicy hot peppers around the strawberries?
I don’t know if that would work the same, unless they actually ate a pepper. If they just munched on the pepper leaves, I don’t think it would do much. But I’m not sure. I like the idea of a border of little red peppers though.
Those bunnies, they’re almost as bad as the deer. And I love the idea of a humiliated shrub.
They are!
I’ll have to take a picture of our humiliated shrub sometime. Poor, sad thing.