So the 4th of July came and went with a bang. I don't have any corn, but plenty of cabbage.

I was asked this week how I avoid the garden becoming a bunny feast. I would like to think it is due to my expert gardening skills, but the truth is something very different. Basically, I simply try to avoid crops that bunnies eat. However, every year I have to learn that lesson again.

This year I have planted 4 packs of Sunflower seeds... FOUR.... my small garden should be awash in Sunflowers if it weren't for the appetite of bunnies. I try to combat the rabbits, but at the same time they are very cute.

Well they were very cute...

As you may be aware this year I grew a lovely crop of peas. The rabbits, each Spring, never seem to bother my peas. My guess is that they have so many other young greens to choose from that they can't be bothered. Even the most basic barrier can dissuade them. This years pea crop matured without incident and I harvested and cut down the plants a month ago.

In the peas place I planted a pack of soy bean. I have never grown soy before, but thought we would try it out. Really I just to see what the plants were like, how they grew. It was your basic backyard garden experiment. And the result of this experiment... Rabbits Love Soy Bean.

Of my approximately 20 plants only 6 survived the first two weeks after sprouting. Those that survived I covered with chicken wire and nursed back to health. Yesterday, I noticed the little soy plants were poking through the chicken wire. Tonight, I noticed THEY ARE GONE.

Now, I mean gone. No leaves. No stems.. no half eaten parts. GONE!!! I can only imagine they were pulled helplessly from the ground and eaten whole. The monsters.

I wonder sometimes what the rabbits must think. Does the glimmer of the "thank you" ever cross their little rodent minds? I hope it does. I hope they think, "thank you mister for the young fresh Sunflowers and beans. We really appreciated it." That is my wish that they at least realize that the plants don't come.. well naturally. But I know they don't.

I hate those Rabbits... Now on to the cabbage.

July 6th.. solid little head of cabbage at this point. One of its peers is so large that you can see it creeping in at the top of the photo. You can see him in the top photo catercorner from our little cabbage. He is just a perfect little cabbage, huge leaves. Unfortunately in May you can't test a cabbage for photogenic qualities. (I think it is a union thing).