HELP !!!! The
rabbits are starting to eat the bark of my little apple trees. Does anyone
know an easy way to prevent this?
Jack Wigal
Washington, WV
[Gene Spears]
Jack,
After a disasterous,
rabbit-infested winter, I bought a lot of plastic tree guards through AM
Leonard (on-line now). Not too expensive, easy to apply & remove,
appear to last several years (2 seasons so far and only a little brittle
and discolored), and they keep the rabbits off the bark. They are only a
couple of feet high, so if you get a really deep snow, you might want to
hustle out & slide them up the trunk a
bit.
If the rabbits have
already done some damage, you might try a caulking gun and a silicon-based
caulk to cover the wounds. Someone on the list suggested this to me
& I think it saved a few of my trees (but not the Honeycrisp,
alas).
gene