Single dowel stick – not steady enough
The 30 broad beans seeds I’ve received recently from Wendy, have germinated and started to appear one by one through the sawdust mulch.
I was worried that the grasshoppers I saw this morning will chomp down my green babies as well as the strong wind blowing today will dry the seedlings out and I will loose the whole lot of broad beans today.
So I suddenly had an idea and see what I came up with as a protector for my seedlings!
I’ve cut the very thinnest dowel stick into pencil lengths (check first that it will fit from the inside top of the bottle to the base of the little white bucket) and made five sticks from one length of dowel and another one from a left over short piece of dowel. These I’ve pushed next to the seedling and placed a see-through plastic, used honey bottle over it to protect it till it has grown strong enough.
I’ve tried using only one stick to keep the bottle upright, but due to the strong wind, I’ve decided to use the two sticks to keep the bottle stable and on top of the bucket, come wind or high water!
After coming back from a beautiful sunny day spent in the Natal Midlands and also at the Dovehouse Organics Farm, where I bought a fresh, free-range chicken as well as other organic vegetables to make a lovely chicken broth soup tonight with my home-grown mushrooms, I’ve checked on my little green babies and noticed that the bottles are still intact and the babies have grown somewhat.
Suddenly all the other broad beans came through the mulch as well, and all now need the same protection as the other three babies. So tomorrow I have to go and search for empty honey bottles or cut-off cooldrink top sections to do the same duty as these bottles do.
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