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| cute li'l ground cherry |
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I have had a couple slight problems along the way.
Shortly after my last post I realized that I got my ground cherry and tomatillo seeds mixed up, and planted a huge area of tomatillos in the middle of my seed tray, and just a few ground cherries off to the side. D'oh! I was in kind of a rush when I planted my seeds, and as you can see - the seed packets look very similar.
I wanted tons and tons of yummy ground cherries, and not so many tomatillos, so I ended up plucking out a row of my adorable baby Miltomate seedlings (broke my heart!) and planting more Aunt Molly's.
My other major issue has been the pets, specifically my calico cat, Ninja. She likes to pull out seedlings.
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| Nooooooo! |
Lucky for me she seems to prefer tomatoes, and so far has no interest in my precious ground cherries. She also likes to chomp tomatillo leaves, but due to my planting error I still have more tomatillos than I need, so no major harm done. She doesn't seem to like *eating* the seedlings. She plucks them, bats them around a little and that's about it - so I'm not too worried about her getting sick.
The good news is now that the plants are a little bigger she's not quite as interested in them. Still, a lot of my day is spent chasing animals away from my seed tray.
I think this is my punishment for not getting a grow light and instead moving the tray around the house from window to window all day. I hadn't thought about about the fact that the pets would have total access to my plants that way!
Outside, things are looking a *little* greener. The garlic I planted in the fall is starting to sprout!
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| garlic |
No sign of life in the asparagus bed yet, and the spinach I started in the fall hoping that it would over-winter and come back like gangbusters in the spring is still mostly dead.
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| asparagus bed |
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| two spinach tufts (rest of the bed is just dirt so far!) |
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| the garden - still mostly brown |
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| Ninja likes to help with laundry too. |
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