Our Garden is a Rabbit Hole

Ryan and I were super pumped to finally be able to garden.  Prior to this year we were confined to container gardening, so this is new and exciting. So far we have two big beds and some giant planters that actually came with the house.  We have a massive slope in our back yard, and since I refuse to water grass in Colorado just on principle, I'd like to scrape the money together to install some tiered beds on that slope. Alas, one day!

Here's some pics of our adorable seedlings, as well as the latest home of one of our many, many, many, neighborhood rabbits.  I just discovered it freshly made this morning. Apparently she wanted a room with a view of her favorite restaurant and she's been hard at work on it all day. We are super bummed about this since she can easily dig her way into the garden bed and we are totally out of money for more elaborate bunny security measures. Though they are the enemy of lettuce these little boogers have at least given us a freakishly healthy lawn.  I don't water it, but they spread their little kibbles of fertilizer all over and reseed the lawn for us all day every day, then they nibble the tips off of every last blade. We're about one bunny away from not needing to mow it! Our neighbors went all out and bunny-proofed their yard and in spite of expensive sprinklers, their grass is far from happy.  I'm just saying mother nature knows a thing or two about gardening.

I'm trying to plant a lot of redundancy into the yard so that some food might be left when they're done, but I think under the circumstances we're going to have to get creative. I'm going to mount some extra shelves we have out in the garage onto our garden shed's exterior and do lots of back-up containers just in case.  There's a chance the bunnies will leave the garden alone since they have ample food already, but only time will tell, this our first time living in a rabbit hole......