Another plant & garden-related blog today.  Last year, I had a terrible time with rabbits eating my flowers down to the dirt.  I was so frustrated, because after you spend the time, energy, and money to get them in the pots, you really don't want to see it all disappear overnight.  I sent out a plea for help and someone told me human hair would keep the rabbits away.  I know, it sounds gross, doesn't it?  But I was so desperate, I was willing to give it a shot.  I called my stylist and asked him to save some hair clippings for me. Much to my surprise, he wasn't at all taken back by my request.  In fact, he said people asked him to save hair clippings all the time...for the very same reason I was asking for them! I went home, and put the hair clippings all around my plants, and wouln't you know it?  The rabbits stopped eating them.  My stylist gave me so many hair clippings, I actually had some left over for this year.

When I put the plants in the ground, I didn't put the hair around them right away. I figured I would wait and see if the bunnies were "biting".  To my surprise, my plants flourished, and the rabbits stayed away....right until around the 4th of July.  I was out of town one weekend and when I came back...my flowers were a mess!  Almost all of them had been eaten off in some spots. Thankfully, I was able to track down the left-over hair and salvage my plants.  While most have grown back pretty well...there are a few that will be bare until fall, I just know it.  It's funny. I would think the rabbits would "strike" early in the spring...not so late in the summer. Maybe they were staying busy in the neighbor's garden, and just recently found time to wander into my yard!