Our garden, which we began planting about a year ago after we'd taken possession of our new house from the builder, is designed to be as Nature-friendly as possible while, at the same time, enabling us to do what we so love - growing vegetables and fruits for the table. At the moment we're enjoying cavolo nero, kale, lettuce and strawberries, and we're bringing on broccoli, leek, onions, spinach, beetroot, raspberries, blackcurrants and potatoes.
All were doing quite well until we noticed that something was eating the broccoli. We steadily eliminated pigeons, caterpillars and slugs as the culprits, which left us very puzzled - until we saw a small, brown, fluffy animal with long ears at the end of the garden - it's visible at bottom right in the above picture.
Yes, we have a rabbit in the garden. It's a young one, and it seems to spend much of its time grazing on our grassy paths - but what it's NOT to do is to eat our broccoli. So today, reluctantly, I gave it a bit of a fright, and was pleased to see it running away in the direction of the road, where all its relatives graze quite contentedly on our neighbour's front lawn.
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