Garden and stuff
Garden: The bunnies ate ALL the lettuce. I had a huge pile of it, and came home one day and it was all nibbled down to stumps. Those stumps are now sprouting fresh leaves, so we'll see if I get more lettuce or if the bunnies come back for round two. I have asked my neighbor to let her dogs come around my mini-farm and leave predator scent around.
Tomato plants are GINORMOUS BUSHES. I only planted 3 this year: two Roma and one Pink Brandywine.
Cucumbers and pony watermelons are in flower and I will soon need to defend those from the rabbits, too. They're on trellises. Yes, apparently pony melons (5-6 lbs max) can be grown on a trellis if you sling hammocks to hold them as they grow.
The peppers are fruiting a bit. We'll see how that goes.
Bunnies also ate most of the parsley, but seem to have backed off for a bit. I have rosemary planted near there now, which might be helping. The bunnies aren't interested in eating the sage or thyme, fortunately. The chives are done flowering, and hoo boy there were a lot of them. Something has been eating the catnip, presumably the cat from next door, so I planted another batch in a high-up planter. Random needs drugs.
Basil is basiling. There will be pesto.
Corn is growing, what the bunnies didn't eat as shoots, which actually is plenty.
The big gardening experiment this year is myoga. It's a Japanese delicacy, and a perennial. Trying to establish a patch of it. It seems to be taking well to the spot, and the bunnies aren't touching it. Considering the shoots are poisonous, this is not surprising. No, you don't eat the shoots, you eat the buds. I won't have any for a couple of years. But that is assuming it survives the winter. Myoga is good down to 0°F if it doesn't go on too long, but we can get lower than that, and have for the last two winters. I'm basically at the very, very edge of the growing zone for this plant. I'll mulch/compost to keep it warmer over the winter, but I have no idea if it'll come back. We'll have to see.