Who would attack my lowly garden? Bunnies. Hungry bunnies. Sneaky bunnies. Highly intelligent bunnies that tested one of my tomatoes a couple of days ago and left it on the vine. Bunnies who ripped off my two beautifully ripe tomatoes (which I almost picked yesterday, but I wanted to let them ripen a tad bit more), ate half of them, and left them in the corners of my yard. See?
What irks me the most is that they didn’t even eat all of it!! The least they could have done was eat more than half. Don’t you agree?
At least the bunnies ate about half of this one and left the rest to share with the slugs in my garden.
Is that all I discovered this morning? Unfortunately not. I’ve mentioned my strawberries before, and just Monday, I was thinking, “Wow, I might actually get strawberries after all!” Famous last words. See…
Why does this look like dirt in this picture? Because the bunnies ate all the new growth on my strawberry plants. It was several weeks’ worth. Grr…
I’ll keep chugging along, fighting the bunnies, trying to harvest my own produce (instead of letting the bunnies do it). Please don’t think that everything is bad here in socal. Things are actually quite good, and I do have some garden successes to share.
My spaghetti squash plants are growing! These are my two biggest plants, and they’re just beginning to flower!
My summer squash plants are doing fabulously well! I have several yellow squash growing!
My eggplant plant has recovered somewhat since the bunnies nearly ate it to the ground, but it’s not thriving. I am making a couple of adjustments in hopes it will improve.
And, finally, my robust pepper plants from last year. All of them have fruit on them, and I am SO excited! This one has several, and one is almost ready to harvest!
Yes, I’m having some trouble keeping the bunnies out of some parts of my garden, but I’m having more successes than failures.