…but produce stickers are forever. I was scooping compost into my wheelbarrow, to use in the lettuce and spinach bed that I was getting ready to plant, when I saw (yet another) produce sticker.
I find these in my garden, too. Someday in the far-off future, an archeologist is going to stumble across the site of my garden and find this record of my family’s produce-purchases. It will be quite a find, I’m sure.
The good news is that, while I was out working in the garden, I noticed that some of the peas managed to survive their too-early planting. There are spaces I will need to fill in with more peas, but I won’t have to replant every last one.
The weather is beautiful today–67 degrees F and sunny. More of the same is forecast for tomorrow!
Ruralrose–you are so right about the garbage. Even though I try to get all those stickers into the regular trash instead of the compost container, I miss quite a few.
I do wish, though, that those stickers weren't so totally plasticized. There must be stickers out in the garden that are ten or more years old!
Erin–I also am happy to see those pea seedlings. It renews my faith in seeds! Sorry a critter has found yours, though.
Last year at the Plant a Row for the Hungry garden we had a terrible time with birds (mostly crows) eating the tender, germinating seeds. What finally allowed some seedlings to get passed the tasty stage was covering them with a row cover. At home, I substitute tulle for the row cover. I don't know how well that would work for a non-bird pest, though.
Good to see your peas! Mine are coming up very scattered, I think something may have eaten my seeds as I found a few scattered about and holes dug…
Garbage will follow us forever – even out here deep in the mountain forest we find glass and nails and buried plastics from the past 100 years – they are even finding plastic at the Antarctic – always surprises you when you see it in nature though, doesn't it – peace