eggplant attack

a trip to campus brought out some bad news at the community garden...the nascent egg plant i photographed two days ago is gone...nipped off at the stem...along with a couple of others...that squirrel that was scolding me last sunday may have had an ulterior motive in watching me so closely...rabbits could be at fault as well...either way something is at them...the peppers are still looking good so as a preventative i spread some organic critter repellant i have been using to good effect in the pgp and at home for a few years around them and the egg plants to try to deter any more predation...i will be back again over the weekend to have a look and apply more repellant if necessary...it's effective but probably won't hold off any sort of determined numbers of hungry rodents.