Growing Vegetables

I like planting fllowers and small lovely plants. Recently I have started to plant vegetables. I think they should will be more useful than flowers as they can be used as food as well as being able to look at them. besides watching haha :D I water hardy the plants, I visit them every moring when I wake up and I can see that they are growing day by day.
Harvest time has arrived, however I don't want to eat them(may I say talk 'I am afraid to eat them' or 'I am hesitant to eat them' ?) (You can use any of your suggestions) as they are so lovely, and I have taken  took care of them for a long time. I still water them and watch them every moring.
This morning I was so sad to see my vegetables had been destroyed by the crazy mice, they ate all the tops of the plants, and dug holes in the soil.  they raked land into holes (I don't know what are the holes were dug digged for) and the roots had been dug up too. are fallen out.
Well, I should eat my vegetables before the stupid mice do. lol :D