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Anti-baby seed starting

So the 13 month old has decimated my trays of seedlings a few weeks ago (under his fathers "watchful" eye), so I needed to come up with a new solution. We don't have any space for a grow light, so windows are my only option.

So I've suspended a bit of bent wire fencing from the window frame, just out of reach from the little one.
Something to consider if you live with a home wrecker.
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Brilliant
Think that would keep the mice from my seedlings
(my home wreckers grew up
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Alternatively couldn't you suspend home-wrecker from the ceiling in a cage?
Just a thought ............... I'll get my coat .......................
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Goodness Dove, why didn't I think of that! Our house looks like a tornados gone through it... daily. The four year old takes care of his messes, with enough nagging and threats, but that baby is something else.. he can turn a tidy house pretty much upside down in half an hour or less. Cupboards emptied of pots and pans, shelves voided of bags and shoes, every single book off the boy's bookshelf, 90% of the toys out of the baskets, etc. All within the blink of an eye. Maybe an open plan home wasn't such a brilliant idea after all.. there is no escaping the mess.
But that's the solution Dove..
My home wreckers have got their own versions but what I do have is a lack of window sill space so this brilliant bit of thinking just might solve that problem.
That is just brilliant, Blue Onion. I might try that next year, because I don't have windowledges here. Talk about 'necessity being the mother of invention', you have just proved it.
Ha ha, great idea! Doubles your windowsill space too.
Dove, that actually made me laugh out loud.
Brilliant idea. There just isn't enough space at this time of year. X
When my son was five years old and just getting into Big Boy's Lego, his sister was about 20 months and a walking and climbing disaster area! (Have you met Wonky Womble yet?
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She could not be contained in a playpen - no way, no how!!!
So big brother played with his Lego in peace in the playpen and she trashed the rest of the house!


Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So funny Dove. Xx