TIL that I’m going to have to protect my plants from marauding critters …
… chewed to the nub most likely by a possum 
They have been out in force lately, making a racket and hassling the chickens at night.
There’s two little side leafs so I’m gonna keep growing her just for interests sake but I don’t think this is what @ReikoX had in mind when he said split stalk technique 