Hello Hive

This is not the pleasant sight I had hoped to see this morning neither it is the new I have wished to talk about. I'm sure that you would have noticed my excitement when I got some unique Agric engineered seeds that germinated within just 4days to begin this garden journey

But I had a sad experience this morning waking up to see that lizards have feasted on these tiny sprouted vegetables picking and eating them up until the garden is now almost empty of veggies

Just take a look at the tiny stems of the veggies which lizards have now eating up all their first leaves.
I had no doubt the moment I noticed this that it must have been some lizards since we have no chickens in the compound and I couldn't find the prints of any other animals shape.
I wonder if birds could have done this too but if that has been the case I would have seen some pecking of birds beak on the floor, but the soil in the garden looked undisturbed. Only lizards couldn't have feasted on these with no traces

Here is how the veggies sprouted and formed clusters upon germination

But now what I am having is some scanty field. I can't kill nature or set a trap for the lizard, but I really have to find a way to keep it from further attaching the growing veggies both now and in subsequent planting.
Any idea on what to do will be highly appreciated.

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Another bad news 😔😞 is the loss of one of my fluted pumpkins.
Remember I had bought this and was very careful while transplanting it from the nursery bag into it's permanent site in this sac.
I never know what could have happened I noticed that one of the three seedlings started drying up and regardless of the constant wetting of the place morning and evening I still lost it.
I have a quality soil here and even added some organic manure before planting, I can't really say why I this happened, I'm really hoping that the remaining two would acclimatize to the soil quicky and begin to grow quicker.

The dead fluted pumpkins

Moving on I was lucky to have this water leaf seedling germinate with the veggies. Water leaf 🌿 is among the veggies I wish to have here and have been looking for where to purchase some of its seeds. This must have been some sort of luck for me to have this one here and I truly hope that it grows quickly, expands well and give me some seeds.

In the meantime my target is to grow these vegetables, Fluted pumpkins, jute mallow, spinach , water leaf, bitter leaf , scent leaf, tomatoes and chilli's. More additions will be made as I make progress until I have all these veggies established here.
And that completes my garden update for today

All images are mine and thank you for reading. Comments and suggestions are welcome