like, it IS going to rain. very soon. it would almost have been better if the jar had landed on it and killed it because i basically condemned it to a slow death in the rain.

What I sometimes tried to do is use little bits of scrap wood and sawed-off end of planks to make sorta of slanted wooden huts by putting them in a upside down V shape in the ground. In big pots and planters this can work with bigger wood scraps, but small pots can be tricky. I often used it to keep a useful spider safe or just make a little safe area for things like pillbugs to surface and have a look around.

Oh! I don't think I've said it out loud yet, but I love that you Gremlin are making a little garden! I hope they're doing well, too!

Our garden is too young to have cool bugs yet, which is why im so sad about the ladybug. Barn spiders like to build webs on our porch tho because its so close to a bright light so lookin forward to that 💖🕷

And yeah. Apart from the ladybug, the plants themselves are doing pretty good. We just need to get larger pots. On a budget of 0, larger pots.

augh im sorry abt the bug :((

if the ladybug could properly talk, im sure it would know it was only a mistake, hopefully it will be alright somewhere, atleast your plants are getting a nice drink!

@jaiden i apologised to it at the time, but its a bit like somebody breaking your legs, leaving you in the middle of the motorway and saying "get better soon" as they drive away. its really bad luck too because we found a leafhopper on our pepper plant. leafhoppers eat pepper plants. whereas ladybugs eat leafhoppers. we have yet to find any jumping spiders in our garden :(