See this sorry sight???
I am about 90% positive that the perpetrator was a chicken and not a squadron of slugs and snails.
The seedlings aren’t merely chewed – they are stripped!!
Grrrr. Lucky I didn’t buy those seedlings huh? Lucky I can just dig up another bunch and plant them in to replace them.
Regardless, it was a little sad though to see those woebegone little stalks.
No more cake!
I’ll have to revamp the fence and get my other cover off Ruby before replanting.
On a happier note – remember my strawberries that were trying to grow five minutes before winter?
Today the big one is looking even better than yesterday
I am also visually tracking my latest tomato harvest to see how much they change daily.
The difference is pretty clear!
I have them in the dining room where they are in quite a warm place.
Enjoy your day!
Cheers
PS
If you have expressed interest in the photo challenge I have sent you emails. If you have not seen the emails check your spam folder! 🙂
PSS
Remember the roll of newspaper as the toilet roll?
Jeff: What’s with all the newspaper craft?
Me: Just taking photos to illustrate a blog story.
Jeff: oh
Me: Did you see the toilet paper?
Jeff: Yes.
Me: Did you tr…
Jeff: No
Me: Weren’t you curio…
Jeff: No
Me: We could save a lot of mon…
Jeff: No
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Re: roll of newspaper as the toilet roll
In the 70s through 90s, my parents traveled regularly to Europe for my father’s business. This included going behind the Iron Curtain. While growing up both my parents used Sears and Roebuck catalogs and newspapers, my mother was fascinated at the wide variety of toilet paper she had the opportunity to use in Europe. Thusly, she started her toilet paper collection! Each “artifact” is labeled as to date and location acquired as well as some have the event indicated. As she traveled and met people, including distant relatives, she shared what she had collected. Many were surprised and thrilled at the collection, as she was, that they volunteered samples (un-used thank you)!
Today, that collection resides with me, as I was sometimes an eager enabler to its growth. The sheets range from slick, shiny paper to wood chips sure to injure the skin.
Not all inheritances are worth cash!
Oh my gosh that is awesome!!! I wonder who on else in the world has a toilet paper collection!
That was a really wonderful story and I am glad you shared it!
Woodchips!! Brilliant! 😀
I just want to climb into that box of tomatoes and live there, smelling their lovely goodness. I can just IMAGINE! I’d have to be rather tiny though, and that would take a miracle.
I’m sorry to see that your generosity was taken for granted. Perhaps you should inform your chooks that they ate one of their potential offspring in said cake?! That might keep them in line.. or at least make them not ask for cake.
haha – I sprung the miscreant today! Photo and all!! Fence fixing is next on my agenda!!
We had a few tomatoes tonight with dinner. Enjoying them while we can!
Wish I could help! My b oldest girlfriend and I used to do fences for the horest we kept together in high school and I always loved the sense of accomplishment. Best of luck. 🙂
Fried green tomatoes are a favorite of mine…..
Mind you, I don’t know if straw will work, but I have seen strawberry plants mulched that way. Just seems like those snails would find the texture tough to ‘glide’ across!
I have used pine needles before for mulch – also tricky terrain for slugs, plus strawberries like the slightly more acidic soil. Still… am hoping to finally find and pick up some hay at the market this coming weekend!!
the hay will break down quicker than pine straw. using layers of both alternatively will probably do the trick!
I found some hay today so I made them a bed!! Its a start!