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