Cindy had the members of her Seed-Starting Guild over a couple of weeks ago to plant some seeds for winter crops. Their idea was to each start some of the same seeds at the same time, take them home and then compare notes about how the plants progressed.
Winter crops, such as the broccoli, Brussels sprouts, beets and cabbage she planted, prefer cool weather, so when we had a warm spell a few days later, she brought them into the house and I got to babysit them on my desk for a couple of days before she took them back outside.
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| Sprouts Up |
They were doing very well, germinating in a few days and beginning to develop true leaves. But then it got hot again, and Cindy took the tray out of the little green house we made out behind the garage, thinking it would be too hot in there for them.
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| Looking Good |
She left the tray on the platform that holds our rain barrels, and when she came back a couple of hours later, she was saddened to find a scene of complete devastation.
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| But Not Much Left |
Some varmint, probably one of the many California Ground Squirrels, had decided to treat the tray as its own private micro-green salad bar. Almost everything had been chewed off at the roots, not yanked out as if the birds had done it, so it was most likely a veggie-loving squirrel.
The only thing the critter didn't eat was the Arugula.
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