The That Damned Rabbit saga continues.....
Turns out the decimation of our garden may not be the fault of one rabbit. Turns out that there is also a mousie at work! We've dubbed him Basil, as scurrying under the basil plants is his preferred method of escape. As I looked out at the garden over the weekend I saw a small brown shape tugging at one of the leaves of the broccoli plant. It was Basil - he gnaws on the leaf stem a little, then pulls the leaf of & scurries back to his burrow, which we believe is under our garden, or in the neighbour's shed. Over the winter we'd often see him under the bird feeder, eating the discarded seeds. He had 2 little tunnels in the snow - one that led to the other side of the yard, and one that lead to underneath our garden. We discovered them once the snow started to melt. Clever little guy. And since it appears to be one little guy - we'll let him be. We didn't want those stinky broccoli, cauliflower & brussels sprouts anyway.
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Hooray for Basil! A garden always needs some residents. Unless you are a very fat Zippy lumbering around stomping on my onions. Bad Zippy! Bad groundhog!
Wonder how long it will take for him to invite his friends over to the buffett?
It won't be much of a buffet, there's not many leaves left! I suppose he could dig up the carrots but I'm not going to suggest that to him.
As for our onions, I wouldn't say the green bits are exactly erect. They are decidedly floppy.
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