How can I keep rabbits out of my yard?

The only surefire fix for rabbitts is a fence they can’t get under. You could try Hinder repellent, but it probably will not be 100 percent effective. Or get a weally weally big wifle.

The only other possible remedy would be to plant garlic really thickly around the garden perimeter. I’m talking the plants are almost touching each other. But it’s probably too late to try that this year. I’ve used garlic as a repellent before and it works if the garlic is started before or when the seeds are planted.

When I bought nasturtiums to feed my bunny the guy who helped me asked if I had a problem with rabbit’s in my garden. Apparently, these flowers are considered a gardener’s best friend, because rabbits love them so much they leave the other stuff alone.

My bunny really does like the leaves, a lot.

What worked for me was Scarecrows—these shoot water at the the bunies and work really well!

You can go red-neck style by adding a fence with a car battery hook up to the fence itself to design a no-no zone. Buy yourself a sling-shot to threaten the rabbit with a marble or rock.
My parents had a garden and the bunnies tend to come out near dark or even during the evening to nibble on the plants. A strong fence on the area tend to push them out until they start digging, when that happen, we made a small trap to push them out.

Live trap them and relocate them, if legal.

Get a cat. Although the cat may prove useless because it will prowl away from the house so it may miss the rabbits.
Maybe try putting hot sauce around your plants before going to bed or open some hot pepper near them. Make sure to wear gloves and not to rub your eyes. Maybe after a while they will start to avoid your plants.
Fence in your veggies.

@Pandora I tried that one year, now the first plants the rabbits head to are my jalepenos and habaneros. Fencing is the best option, but you have to dig down and bury the bottom or the fencing deep enough that the rabbits can’t burrow under it easily.

BB gun

a fence that has a buried base to they can’t crawl/dig under would be your best option. Also, if you live in an area where there are owls, maybe put up an owl house. by the way, bunny poop is great fertilizer.

Ah, maybe if you get some motion detector lights that are really bright and can shine on your veggies they will get spooked and learn to stay away.

Did you see what I posted above? That kind of scarecrow definitely works.

I’ve always preferred a .22 rifle.

@crisw: That device looks like the PERFECT thing to keep night walkers from letting their dogs poop on our front yard! I’ll fill our with the pickled brine from jarred jalepenos. Oh yeah, I’m putting it on my wishlist now.

@Neizvestnaya

Unfortunately, you have to hook it up to a garden hose rather than a water reservoir!

@noelleptc

Considering how much work the fence is, it may be cheaper :>)

@crisw: It’s worth it. I’ll practice with the squirt radius to make sure it doesn’t go beyond our yard boundaries. Yay!

you could try a little bit of human hair if you want. or there are some urine walmart sells that
might work.
You could also make a robot bunny that goes around to all the others and tells them how your veggies taste like poo. Then they wont bother coming. Instead they will hang with this robot bunny until he runs out of batteries and they violently eat him.

I got this scarecrow sprinkler
It is motion activated to scare them out of the garden. It should keep your dogs out too. I haven’t hooked mine up yet. The reviews are pretty good though.
(next time I should read the other answers first. )

@josie .22 rifle is a bit overkill for me within 20 yards. If it goes beyond my comfortable range, I would take the .22 rifle. BB guns works just fine to me.

Fencing will do, my parents did a double fencing, a weak one in the outside, and a stronger one on the outside. It seems to discouages the bunny away and eat my neighbors gardens.

We buried wire fencing two feet deep and braced it with a double layer of paver bricks on the outside. Kept the rabbits out, but not the insects.

In a one gallon milk jug, mix a dozen eggs, a quarter to half cup of cayenne pepper, a half gallon of water, leave it sit for a week, shaking and releasing built up gas, put in a pump sprayer (or hose end sprayer to reduce clumps), and spray wherever you want rabbits to stay away from.

It smells like hell until dry, but once it is, you cannot smell it, but the rabbits can for weeks.

Also, I found rabbits to be lazy hunters. They will not climb, so if you cut a small fence around a raised bed, problem solved. They will look for the path of least resistance~a clover patch or your neighbor’s yard.

Good luck.