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Summer Goodness – Broccoli

Ippo456 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:04:53 +0000

We all know how hamsters love broccoli. But what can beat eating freshly picked broccoli from your own garden?

What Baby Hamster is eating is not the broccoli florets your normally find in the supermarket. Because it’s been quite warm lately, my broccoli plants have started going to seed. That’s why the broccoli that BH is eating looks slightly different. Had I cut the broccoli later, it would’ve flowered.

This was my last yield of broccoli To see how the garden has progressed throughout the summer, see here.

Summer Goodness – Strawberry

Ippo456 — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:07:08 +0000

Leaves that is!

The chinchillas love dried strawberry leaves! They can’t eat the strawberries because they’re too wet (& may lead to diarrhea). Since I don’t have a dehydrator (which is on my wishlist), I wash the leaves clean and just air-dry them. I have a tupperware full of strawberry leaves that I picked from my garden. Hopefully that’ll last for awhile.

To see how the garden has progressed throughout the summer, see here.

Summer Goodness – Cilantro

Ippo456 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:39:57 +0000

Since it’s summer, I’ve been keeping a vegetable garden growing all sorts of things. One of the things I’m growing is cilantro & my cilantros are going crazy! They keep going to seed every week & I have to keep trimming them. That’s surely a good thing for the hamsters

Daddy Hamster (above) & Baby Hamster (below) enjoying freshly picked cilantro

To see how the garden has progressed throughout the summer, see here.

ps: the chinchillas also like cilantros, but they like them slightly crispy & dry.