My fennel sprouts have finally grown enough to transfer to their own container. Since I had not expected them to grow, they had been overcrowding each other in the strawberry pot I had thrown them into. I readied a new planter full of soil, and decided to experiment with moving about half, just in case they didn't survive.
I dug my finger underneath the roots of a few sprouts and tried to pull them out as gently as I could, but they would not come. I tried again a few times harder, and then realized it was not soil I was hooking with my finger. IT WAS ALIVE! I had been jabbing the side of some poor toad who was burrowed in there! I never actually saw its face, and not even a leg, but I'm sure that's what it was. I felt terrible. I pulled the fennel off the top, dribbled some water in his burrow and re-soiled it again so he could nap in peace. I went out later this evening and he was gone, probably off to a new home.
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