Hamster DIY- Grow your own healthy hamster treat.

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 these to Tim as a treat (after washing them of course!). He loves it. If there is about an inch of the shoot left it regrows, funnily enough just like grass... I don't sew many seeds at once as they are growing inside and there is not a lot of air circulation, if the shoots are crowded mould may occur which is definitely not healthy.

There are some sunflower sprouts growing but I'm ignoring these, I may plant some outside just to see what happens at a later date but I won't be feeding them to Tim. Next time I sew some more seeds I'll take the sunflower seeds out.

There we go a home grown and healthy hamster treat, that adds a bit of green to the windowsill.