YES, rabbits will indeed eat asparagus! I just put a new asparagus bed in this spring. I planted one year crowns only to discover that rabbits are nipping off the young asparagus shoots as fast as they emerge. This is NOT good as the first year, asparagus shouldn't be harvested at all. The shoots should be left to go to fern in order to place strength back into the crown for the following years harvest. This isn't possible when the rabbits are nipping the tops off of the emerging shoots. The shoots started to emerge about ten days ago and every morning I have found just the tops nipped off of the shoots. Today I found more shoots nipped off and decided this is enough of this crap! I went to the hardware store and bought fencing to place around the bed. Came home and installed it right away. Within two hours, project completed! From this day on, the darn wabbits can have all the asparagus that grows outside the fence but all that grows inside is mine!!! LOL
Rich