The Rabbits Strike Again!

The first crocus are up and now blooming.  I took these shots yesterday - I chose this giant variety to line some of my pathways.  I intended for them to come up kind of randomly placed around the edges of some stone pathways in the yard, and they should look like this:

But instead, I got mostly this:

A full 80% of the crocus I planted last fall have been eaten! I don’t know if these can recover or not, with some new shoots; the bulbs need to store energy from the sun in the foliage in order to bloom again next year, and they’ve been mowed short at the ground.  Anyway, case in point for fencing the vegetable garden.

I don’t begrude those hungry mama rabbits for eating the first green shoots, but it sure is frustrating.  They’ve even been trying to taste the rosebushes.

After a gorgeous 70+ day yesterday, we’re getting rain today.  I spent the morning putting in some semi-permanent woodchip paths in one section of the veggie garden, before the rains started.  My idea is to divide into beds I can plant intensively, and reach across from either side, eliminating a lot of the unused space.  I hope to mulch better this year, cut down on weed growth – and if I really get inspired, put in a drip system.  Too wet for pictures of the paths today!