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.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |