My project I started before Christmas is coming along nicely, so I thought I would get some feedback from ya'll before I try it on the furballs.
I started with a package of cheap, thin latex sponges. 2 of them have regular wild finch bird seed sprinkled on them, one has wild rice,and one has watermelon seeds. I keep them in rectangular sushi dishes in a sunny windoe and keep them damp. I watered them one time with Miracle Grow when stuff first started sprouting and they are really starting to take off now.
I think I may put the 2 bird seed ones into the flyer's cages tomorrow night. Maria's cat, Holly has started showing intrest in them so I'll probably let Maria take 1 into her room for the cat. I took them all from the dishes tonight and ran tap water through them so that the Miracle Grow feeding shouldn't be an issue... do you think?
I bought some packs of garden seeds today and will start them in sponges too. I have sweet peas, cucumber, and coliflower.When the seeds are bigger, like the watermelon, I made some little slits with a knife in the sponge when there weren't enough holes in the sponge surface that the seeds would fit into. I'll post about how the furballs respond to their mini gardens.
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Well the furballs like the sprouting greens pretty well. I don't know if they really eat much, but they like to sit in it, mash it down, and have hidden acorns in the one in Molly And Munch's cage. I took them out to water them today and put them back in the window for some sun. I put the same ones back in tonight 'cause they did perk up a little bit out of the cages today, but this stuff won't last too many days.
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