Demon squirrels strike again!

So I've spent about a month eagerly getting seeds, planting them carefully in mini peat pots (the kind that start as pellets but grow when you add water), watching excitedly for the first sprouts to appear, carefully nurturing the seedlings, hardening them off on the back deck to get them used to being outside, then transplanting them to lovingly-prepared beds and planters.

Only to find the seedlings dug up the next day, or even hours later, tossed cruelly aside to bake in the hot sun. Sometimes the seedlings disappear altogether, with the occasional bit of peat pot or a few pitiful roots left behind as a taunting reminder of what I once had.

I suspected squirrels, but wasn't sure until I actually caught one of them climbing into one of my outdoor herb planters and starting to dig. Grrr. A couple of days ago, I found the same plants dug up THREE TIMES ON THE SAME DAY(a mint and a morning glory seedling). I replanted the seedling each time. The third time, the seedling disappeared for good.

I have sprinkled some chipotle pepper powder around those plants; I've heard that bloodmeal also works, but it also stinks. One of my friends helpfully suggested that if we lived in medieval times, it might have helped to chop off one of the squirrel's heads that I could stick on a pike as a message to others.

Hopefully the chipotle pepper will do the trick.

We'll see...

(insert sound of pike sticks being sharpened here)

Link O' The Day: Nerd Jewellry!

I don't wear make-up or have the usual obsession with clothing or shoes that many women share, but I do confess a weakness for earrings, especially nerdy ones like those above. The description on Etsy starts off "Make sure you don't walk around without a properly formatted Head."

:-D

Anyway, they're sadly sold out, probably because they were popular on Digg (which is how I found out about them). But what a GREAT idea for jewellry.






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