My Russian pen was built on an area of the driveway, which consisted of decomposed granite with little dirt. I re-habbed the pen last summer, adding compost and dirt, and sowed a Mediteranean Seed mixture that I bought online. The seeds came up and I was happy to see all these little broad leafed plantlets, but a couple more weeks and grass sprouted. There was so much grass that it shaded and crowded out the broad leaf plantlets. I was very disappointed, as my Russians don’t eat grass. So I was out in their pen the past several days, sitting on a short stool and pulling up the clumps of grass by hand, bit-by-bit. Took me three days to clear it all out of there. This morning as I was finishing up, a little male Russian walked over to the last clump of grass…a new clump that just sprouted last week…and started eating it!!!!!!!!!! So I guess I’ve been wrong all this time. My Russians DO eat grass. But they sure didn’t eat it last year! (Or did they??)
Yvonne
Yvonne
