Strange diet

Really I am a fairweather gardener. But despite the cold, these last couple of days have been sunny enough to tempt me out, to check the composting experiment (see 14 July 07) and to start tidying up. What a blessing winter is, cutting down August's intimidating jungle to something manageable!


This was an odd find, just lying on the soil where, I suppose, I'd carelessly left it some hot summer day. It is one of those very thin plastic plant pots that bought plants come in, made (so the maker tells me) of polypropylene; and it appears to have been nibbled. Well nibbled. I assume the nibbler was a small rodent, let us say a mouse. But why should it have nibbled the pot? I know mice will gnaw though plastic very effectively when it is a question of getting out (or even getting in), but I'd never thought they actually ate the stuff. That still still seems unlikely, so the initial question remains.