{"id":1150,"date":"2021-06-28T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T09:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mandalinarossa.com\/2021\/06\/28\/ways-to-protect-seeds-and-seedlings-from\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T16:26:11","slug":"ways-to-protect-seeds-and-seedlings-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Seeds and Seedlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1150 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/b1f98a8438805feea6424c14aed9c335fe8db6bd.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"638\" src=\"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/b1f98a8438805feea6424c14aed9c335fe8db6bd-1024x681.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" 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that I have to protect them from our kittens who tend to dig wherever there is beautiful open soil. Also slugs and snails love the newly sprouted seedlings. So I had to find a way to protect them!<\/p>\n<p>As I was trying to figure out how to weave baskets, I made frames with pruned branches and wove around them roughly with ivy and grape vines. I placed them where I sowed the seeds and waited for them to sprout!<\/p>\n<p>I also found a small metal basket at home and just placed it where I sowed seeds.Its holes were big enough so that I kept it in place until the seedlings got stronger. I lost 2 of them to snails but it worked for kittens!<\/p>\n<p>Another protection way that I use the most is plastic water containers cut in half.Sometimes wind blows them away, so just put a stone on top to keep it in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ways to Protect Seeds and Seedlings from cats,slugs etc.. When I started sowing seeds in the early spring when the weather was still chilly, I realized that I have to protect them from our kittens who tend to dig wherever there is beautiful open soil. Also slugs and snails love the newly sprouted seedlings. So I had to find a way to protect them! As I was trying to figure out how to weave baskets, I made frames with pruned branches and wove around them roughly with ivy and grape vines. I placed them where I sowed the seeds and waited for them to sprout! I also found a small metal basket at home and just placed it where I sowed seeds.Its holes were big enough so that I kept it in place until the seedlings got stronger. I lost 2 of them to snails but it worked for kittens! Another protection way that I use the most is plastic water containers cut in half.Sometimes wind blows them away, so just put a stone on top to keep it in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[114,32,117,38,115,116,113,26],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-growing","tag-direct-sowing","tag-growing","tag-kitten","tag-organic-gardening","tag-planting","tag-protecting-seedlings","tag-seedlings","tag-sustainable-living","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandalinarossa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}