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Aug. 21st, 2007 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruOkaywhatthehell.
A week or two ago I started a little windowsill herb garden, due to a sudden desire for fresh herbs and a lack of sufficient season growing time. Thus far they've been doing quite well, being all cute and seedling-like and all that.
But today...the HORROR. I went over to rotate them, since they all loves them some suns and need constant reminding that the correct way to grow is 'up', when I discovered that the thyme pot, which had a very large contingent of seedlings, was suddenly very bare. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that somebody had come along and CUT OFF THEIR LITTLE HEADS AND ATE THEM. SERIOUSLY. There were just some tiny seeding stumps where they were, baby leaves gone and everything. Only one managed to survive the slaughter.
Part of me wants to replace them with new seed, but another part is worried it'll only encourage the culprit.
I really want to know what did it too, in part because I feel a vague need for VENGEANCE. I know occasionally I've had issues with some little gnat-like creatures, and there have been one or two hanging around the seedlings, but they always seem much more interested in the soil than in the plants themselves. Perhaps I was wrong.
A week or two ago I started a little windowsill herb garden, due to a sudden desire for fresh herbs and a lack of sufficient season growing time. Thus far they've been doing quite well, being all cute and seedling-like and all that.
But today...the HORROR. I went over to rotate them, since they all loves them some suns and need constant reminding that the correct way to grow is 'up', when I discovered that the thyme pot, which had a very large contingent of seedlings, was suddenly very bare. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that somebody had come along and CUT OFF THEIR LITTLE HEADS AND ATE THEM. SERIOUSLY. There were just some tiny seeding stumps where they were, baby leaves gone and everything. Only one managed to survive the slaughter.
Part of me wants to replace them with new seed, but another part is worried it'll only encourage the culprit.
I really want to know what did it too, in part because I feel a vague need for VENGEANCE. I know occasionally I've had issues with some little gnat-like creatures, and there have been one or two hanging around the seedlings, but they always seem much more interested in the soil than in the plants themselves. Perhaps I was wrong.