Out-Gardened by a Guinea Pig?

Posted on Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 10:07

Have you ever been upstaged by a pet guinea pig? Most things we have planted outside in the garden has done poorly so far but Laura's guinea pig seems to be a master gardener!

Her name is Sammi and she has planted a nice garden in the corner of her cage.

I don't know how she did it, I guess she does have a green thumb. But wait, guinea pigs don't even have thumbs!

Seriously, we just noticed those sprouts one morning last week. We took the pictures and then cleaned out her cage. Obviously she spilled some of the seeds from her food bowl and her water bottle dripped on them. Maybe she even added some natural fertilizer.

Sammi spends most days out of her cage playing with her guinea pig brother, Fizzy. The day before we noticed her garden was one of those days. That would explain how the seeds could have undisturbed time to germinate.

The sprouts must have been there for a couple of days without our noticing. We all got a pretty good laugh when Laura saw it and exclaimed that Sammy's garden is doing better than ours.

It's not good to be out done by a guinea pig. 

I hope we grow better tomatoes than she does!

Blessings to all!

-Pa

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Posted by Rhen on Thursday, May 3, 2007 at 10:25 - Link

I love your little piggie!! I used to have 12 sweeties of my own. DH built a multi-level home for them that was 6 feet long, 3 feet deep and 3 feet high. They tubes to run through and it had a plexi glass front. I just removed the front to clean it. I miss those little piggies!
All for His glory,
~Rhen

Too cute!

Posted by Glammon on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 01:33 - Link

That's the cutest thing I have ever seen. I am an absolute animal lover! Thanks for sharing.
Take Care
~Gretchen