Growing Food for Bun

[Lee]

So we have recently started a herb and veggie garden (we are yet to see if it successfully thrives though ha!). I purposely bought a few things that are good for Bunnies such as parsley, kale, mint etc. I also wanted to grow some fresh grass too, was wondering if their was a particular kind that is best for Bunnies? 

[Bam]

Timothy grass is good.

I also grow a little clover. It’s a treat but they love it, esp the flowers.

[Lee]

Thanks! I will try and source both of those to plant

[JackRabbit]

Rye grass, mixed grasses, and wheatgrass are all fine. Clover is a legume (like alfalfa) and is ok as an occasional treat, but I’d stick with grasses.

[Bam]

Yes of course, clover IS strictly a treat. It’s very rich.

I’ve sown Lolium perenne (rye grass) in an old litterbox, there are a variety of name-brands. It’s suitable for small animals like chickens and rabbits. This is how it looks now:

[JackRabbit]

Bam — have you tried anything other than ryegrass in a litterbox? I just bought ryegrass seeds as well as some other seeds but haven’t gotten around to planting yet.

[Bam]

Nope, just rye grass and another one with clover. But I do know they sell timothy grass seeds for planting in pots, as “decoration”.

Here’s the pic, Windows had a melt-down just now. Terrible quality of the pic but I hope you get the general idea =)

I think you can sow grass any time as long as it’s over +4 degrees (39 F), it will grow.

[Little Dove]

I, too, have started an herb garden for my rabbit! If you’ve planted mint, be careful where you planted it, you might wind up with TONS of mint plants. They’re little prolific fellars, they have lots of runners and will spread pretty rapidly. I’ve got 3 plants I keep in containers, so as to not choke my garden, and my other herbs are in seeding trays to see if they’ll come up. So far, I’ve got several dill and some chamomile, most everything else is still not germinating.

I also suggest soaking your parsley seeds overnight before you plant them – if you’re planting seeds, it helps with germination. They take as long as a month to begin coming up! I plan on using bunny poop to fertilize my garden, my mint plants seem to really be appreciating it!

Seems like everyone else has given you good advice on grass! I thought about growing grass but I don’t think I have enough containers given that I’ve got so many other things growing too, lol!

Correction: Just checked on my parsley and I have several little babies poking through the soil! So it seems like it took about a week and a half for them to sprout vs the month I’ve seen online after I soaked them the night before I sowed them. Thought I’d share!

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