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Gardening

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2. That and bacon on a string

Reply to Easterncedar (Reply #1)

Wed May 10, 2023, 10:56 AM

May 2023

It supposedly works.

Run some string (like kite string) 5-6 inches off the ground around planting beds. Cool some bacon and rub it along the string so the juices are soaked up. Supposedly rabbit don’t like the smell of bacon (and pee).

Bonus is you have bacon 🥓!!!

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