Bunny composting

Bunny composting

Any bunny owners in here that compost their litter and use it in the garden? I’ve got two house bunnies and I’ve started very lazily composting their litter, but I haven’t tried to use it in a garden yet. I just started a second pile, so I think I’m going to let this pile compost until next year when I’m prepping in my beds at the end of winter. Any tips would be appreciated.

I posted some photos of my backyard the other night.


Bunny composting
This is my fortress in the backyard. It’s not pretty but so far it’s kept the wild bunnies out. Last year they hit me really hard. I was determined to have at least one bed protected from them this year.

My main things in here are cucumber, okra, and eggplants. I have some random squash and leafy things also growing.

Bunny composting
I put a bed next to my water spigot because it has a very slight leak. I figured melons might be able to make use of it while also vining toward better sun. I planted a bunch of melon seeds from a honeydew melon and a cantaloupe we ate from a grocery store, but they didn’t seem to be coming up. I was already growing some cantaloupe from store bought seed inside so I transplanted those out and also bought some seedlings of yellow watermelon and honeydew melon. Of course after I planted them. There was a bunny attack and I lost one plant. Now this week I have several seedlings coming up from those originally planted seeds.
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It looks like tomatoes will be my first crop. These are growing in a pot on my front deck.
Bunny composting
This is the front deck recently organized this weekend. I’m mostly growing various peppers but there are a few other random things such as Thai basil, okra, dill, various tomatoes, etc. I’m also attempting to grow flower seedlings to transplant.
Bunny composting
This is the front of our house. I’m growing plants that supposedly do well in partial shade here: beans, peas, collard greens, broccoli. We recently reclaimed this bed from some crazy bushes and monkeygrass.
Bunny composting
This is the bed on the other side of the front door. Each day it’s more green. I’m hopeful if the wild bunnies decide they must destroy a garden, this is the bed they choose to attack, but so far I haven’t seen any signs.
Bunny composting
Unfortunately, these two beds were attacked shortly after the first planting. Luckily sweet potatoes are pretty hardy and I didn’t lose much. I’ve since added tomatoes and peppers. So far so good with the recent transplants. I did use a fair amount of ground red pepper to protect my seedlings so my first rounds of wild bunny attacks this year haven’t been too damaging.
Bunny composting
Speaking of peppers, here is one of my pepper plants that survived a winter inside with way too little light and way too much cold. It’s covered in flowers now. I hope it produces well this year.


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