Snow Pea sprouts - day 7
SP - day 9
I'm so stinkin' proud of these guys. Yesterday I came home at some point to find 3 freaking holes in this box. We have squirrels EVERYWHERE in my neighborhood. Usually they are pretty harmless; mostly they like to tease the dog (the fence is literally 3 inches too tall for the dog - who is apparently part pogo stick.....). However, our landlords warned us that the little rodents might try to dig up our pretty little peas. And they have....
Fortunately one of the holes was NEXT to the peas and they just threw dirt over the little plants. I was able to brush the dirt back where it belonged. But another hole pulled up a sprout! The nerve of those fat furry things! The sprout had no visible damage (thank goodness), and I put him back in his little hole and covered him up nicely.
We have no many neighborhood cats that you'd think they would keep the squirrel population down... The little old lady across the street puts out TONS of birdseed that draws both pigeons and squirrels alike to our block. But I think the problem really lies in that she also puts out food for the neighborhood cats... thus negating the need to the kitties to perform their squirrel hunting duties. I really don't think the squirrels even fear the cats. Although for a while there was this REALLY mangy squirrel running around that looked like he'd seen the wrong end of several cat fights...
Anyway, the peas are happy and healthy =)
Carrots - day 9
AND MY CARROTS ARE SPROUTING!!! Everything I've read online said that it takes, on average, up to 3 weeks for carrots to sprout, so I was planning on patiently waiting until next weekend before I would check them every day. Not the case here! I have about 5 itty bitty bitty little carrot fronds popping through the dirt! I know that I will eventually have to thin them out; the seeds were SO TINY that I couldn't really sprinkle them out very well. No worries though.
I'm so happy to be a little gardener <3
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