I enjoy growing plants that I can eat, there is just something about growing my own food from seed that I love. Especially basil, I adore basil. At the minute my house is rented so I can't trash the garden with food experiments so I'm stuck using the kitchen windowsill. My windowsill is full of herbs and 'speedy salad'. Anyway onto hamsters. I feed Tim bird seed just to add some variety to his diet, it's perfectly healthy as an occasional treat. While giving him his bird seed I had a random thought; I like to grow things from seed....these are seeds.... Oooooo. So I sprinkled a little bit of birdseed in a little pot of soil (my DIY Recycled Plant Pot no less) watered the soil quite well and allowed it to drain then sprinkled a little extra soil on top. After a few days I had some green shoots coming up, then after a few more days I had this: Most of the shoots just look like grass, I cut a few pieces of the grass shoots about an inch above the soil and give ...