Squirrels.

Back in the fall, when I was trying to grow kale, I kept on finding the plants uprooted, but otherwise untouched. I blamed the squirrels, who were surely burying their bounty in the loosely-packed soil around my newly-planted kale. It sucked. Also sucky: when I dug up the kale a few days ago, I found what they had been burying: ROCKS. Lots of rocks. How do these squirrels survive??

But in recent news: they've attacked my basil and my green onions!



Whyyyy squirrels whyyy. I don't know how to stop them. Chicken wire? Moving my plants up to the balcony (where I bet they could still get them)? The basil plant was particularly heart-breaking because it was looking SO happy this morning!

Also, please say hello to my two new additions:



On the left we have my lovely strawberry plant, which was given to me for my birthday along with the variegated thyme plant. New word: variegated! It means that the leaves have green and yellow, oooooh. I am so excited for that first little strawberry to finish ripening - it's got some red showing now... and the rest of the blossoms all have little green strawberries growing!

Watering: got the strawberry and variegated thyme going - the others were all pretty moist still.