I was so excited this year for our garden - we planted a bunch of sweet peas (yummm... nothin better than eating sweet peas right out of the garden!!), a bunch of corn, and a bunch of carrots, among all of the other things, but those were the three I was most excited about...
And one by one, they all met their demise... when the corn first popped up, it had the misfortune of looking just like the weeds I had shown Sarah when we were weeding in the early weeks. One day, she came in so proud to tell me that she had just weeded a whole bunch of 'weeds' in the garden...
I have to give her credit - she was extremely thorough and got every last one...
We also have a little rabbit colony somewhere in the neighborhood, but I haven't done much rabbit protection since we have our own little rabbit chaser in Bailey, who has pretty much kept our backyard clear of our long-eared friends...
That is... until we decide to leave on a mammothly long cross country trip, and board Bailey, leaving the backyard wide open to a rabbit feast...
... and feast is what they did... first on the carrots...
... and then on the peas...
... the squash did survive the rabbit frenzy (I guess they don't like squash any more than I do!), as well as some peppers and basil.
Where is Elmer Fudd when you need him??!
3 comments:
Oh...how sad! The best laid plans...
Do you have a good Farmer's Market close by? I hadn't heard about Elmer Fudd and the waskiwy wabbit in years.
Love, Mom - near the Antarctic
That stinks! :(
Oh, the disappointment of the peas, carrots, and corn. Your square gardening does look so good otherwise and nice the kids can be involved... And then try again next year. We have cucumber or pea bugs or maybe it is rabbits, too.
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