Rabbits

Rabbits eat lettuce and spinach (and beans and potatoes and peas and anything else you don't want them to eat). They'll eat it all if they can, and they'll favor the young, tender seedlings. Rabbit fencing is supposed to keep them out, but it often fails.

For the winter garden, the worst time is spring when the spinach is growing vigorously and the foliage is thick. It provides excellent cover for baby rabbits who satisfy their voracious appetites on spinach and then venture out into the rest of the garden at night to destroy spring-planted seedlings like lettuce and peas.

After many years of valiant and futile efforts to keep rabbits out of my garden, I finally stretched chicken wire around the perimeter of my entire backyard. I attached it to the bottom of a chain link fence. That seems to have worked, at least for the last couple of years.

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