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Finally gave up on my rabbit problem; went with plan b...

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Will Herring

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Basically, rather than cover the beans or try any trapping or anything, I opted to build some sections of fence out of some pine (currently in the process of painting it, actually) and covering it with chicken wire.

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I utilized a modular approach so that we can easily change direction, add or remove sections, or make it bigger in later years if necessary. Also, they are fairly lightweight and easy to work with right now.

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It's only about two foot high, but it seems to work fairly well. I used electric fence stakes for the end posts and then used #9 wire to anchor the sections together. I have 6 eight foot sections and 2 four foot sections.
 
I had to do the same thing to my pumpkin patch of all things...

When the critters start eating the tomato plants or the rhubarb, I give up. Frankly I wish some of 'em would and poison themselves out of existence.
 
That's a great idea! Unfortuntaly it wouldn't work here in S. Texas, the termites would have the pine eaten up the first year. Could do that out of treated pine, but then it get's a bit heavy which defeats the intended purpose. I had to hang a 16' treated 2 X 4 a few days ago 14 feet in the air standing on scaffold. That sucker got heavy by the time I was done.
 
For me..Woodchucks wait until the beans blossum,
then eat the blossums. I finally fenced, and
solved the problem.
 
I had 40% rodent damage to my Sweet Potatos and rabbits eating my lettuce on my 1.5 acre garden. I got 4 barn cats and the problem virtually disappeared.
 
Could have used two medium sized hinges on each end and pulled the pins out. That way you could set them up and drop the hinge pins in and you wouldn't have to wire the panels together.
 
Thanks for the feedback guys. And I do like the idea about using some hinges and pins. Definitely some room for added improvements to it, I think.

Finally got her painted up and staked down properly:

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White fence, silver wire, some green/brown "filler" sticks, and AC orange fence stakes.
 
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