I have my worst rabbit problems in the early spring when I start sitting out my brassicas. They seem to like to take out my broccoli more than anything else , like cabbage. I 've been covering my broccoli plants with gal milk jugs to fend off the rabbits more so than for freezes. If that's the only green thing out there , they'll go for it. I've also used small chicken wire cages to put over the plants.

When the surrounding grassy areas green up more the rabbits tend to lay off , especially if the plants are a little bigger. I have cow pastures surrounding my garden.

Okie HU

A few years back I had a rabbit addicted to my cayenne pepper. Won't touch any of the other 30 pepper plants, only the cayenne. The rabbits certainly like asparagus, and I have some trouble with sweet corn when they're young. I figured they'd attack my Brassicas but never did.

Anne, if those 100 old milk crates are the metal ones you may have thousands of dollars sitting outside. They sell very well on EBAY for between $20 and $80 depending on the dairy they came from with people paying more for shipping than the price of the crate.

I sold two for $25 each at a garage sale last fall, and used ebay's "items sold" prices to price my crates.

Unfortunately I only have 8 or 9 of those metal milk crates, most of them are the heavy duty plastic. I'll sure watch for the metal ones, though, thanks for the heads up!

Annie

floral, wow I am shocked that you are harvesting all that already! whereabouts are you in the UK?! or are you using a greenhouse?! Annie can probably relate to me because we're both z5, but my rhubarb usually isn't ready to pick until nearer the end of May and kale is more like mid July. :p

Annie, I always have a potted parsley plant to bring in for winter but somehow this year it died! lol! I'm way behind on sowing seeds and need to do that today. New cats are a detriment to all of my normal activities. I do have more dahlias sprouted from seed, and my mini sweets and 'your' poblano peppers are up. I need to decide what I want to grow this year and plant my tomatoes and remaining peppers today! :)

Okie, all of that sounds like your season is almost two months ahead of what I'd see here, although we finally got some rain yesterday and again this morning and green stuff is sprouting up like mad out there! yay! I see daffodils and hyacinths blooming, if that tells you anything. :)

I direct sow, also.

I'm doing Dr Martin's pole lima this year.

https://www.vermontbean.com/product/V01211/207

I potted up some individual pots with one seed each which I'll plant on out when the times right

Okie HU

I was finally able to get some potatoes planted today. And will hopefully get more of them in tomorrow. Varieties: Mountain Rose and Satina. My favorite is Mountain Rose though it isn't the most productive.

Anyone have any ideas to make potato plants more productive?

I planted the first planting of sweet corn and ser out the broccoli and cauliflower today...held off on potatoes because of forecast.