The Garden: Batch #1 Week 1 & 2

Here the experimenting begins! For this first batch of pet food plants, I tried to grow the food the hamster and birds always leave on the bottom of the bowl. They always leave some food in their bowls, and there is always a little bit of every kind of seed left. Why waste them when I can grow them? Below is a picture of the area left for growing pet food. It may be small, but i don't need much for experiments. I can ask for a bigger space once i know it's successful. The left side is for hamster food, while the right is for bird food.

Week 1:  Wow, in about 3 days, they sprouted! It was so fast that even mom was surprised! :D Maybe this will work after all. They came in many different shapes and sizes. Some skinny and grasslike, others with two small leaves at the top. I never knew watching plants grow could be so interesting! One day after another they grew, tripling in size. I wonder how they will look full grown?

Week 2: Many more sprouts have come out, and those that were there last week grew really quickly! Now it's even easier to differenciate them. To think that all the different kinds/colored seeds would all end up a lush green! I've noticed that more sprouts came out on the hamster food side... maybe it's because hamsters take the seeds whole, while the birds shell them and leave the shells in their bowl. because of this, when I scattered the seeds in the soil, there may have been more shells than seeds on the bird seed side. Oh well, can't do anything about it now! I'll put more in the next batch. So in 2 weeks, many of the plants went from 3mm large seeds to 100mm tall plants! That was really fast!