Gardening Woes

I decided a couple of months ago I would try to grow a few vegetables since I'm missing my dad's fresh produce from the B-N-V; I started with broccoli and two types of lettuce as mentioned in this post.  Sadly most of the lettuce either got too much water or was frozen by some of the cold nights we had.  I just figured, "no huge loss, at least the broccoli looks great!"  Well, I went to the backyard one afternoon last week and this is what I saw:

Something had completely destroyed the broccoli leaves and the little bit of lettuce that was left!  I immediately started searching online for what might eat broccoli in the city.  We've never seen rabbits and our yard is completely fenced in, so the only thing I can figure is that the culprits were either squirrels or chipmunks- that's what we've seen a lot of in our yard.  Then of course I called my dad, to see if there was any hope for our broccoli without its leaves.  He recommended that we start over with summer veggies, since rodents aren't supposed to like the leaves of those as much.  So now I've planted tomatoes, bell pepper, squash, and zucchini.  I read online that hanging CD's in the garden will discourage squirrels because they'll run away when they see their reflections.  So far, so good; I'm just holding my breath and hoping we get SOME vegetables out of this.  Anyone have ideas of how to keep away pesky varmints? ;)

We have really enjoyed watching the dogwood trees begin blooming, and we have TONS of violets popping up all over our yard!

Happy Spring!