The word is slugs are supposed to hate garlic, guess no one told this guy. The reality is they do not like the bulb underground apparently the garlic leaves are delicious. Appears that I need to step up my war with the slugs.
Excited to try out my new to me food dehydrator, I collected some peppermint leaves from my 2 year old peppermint plants which is fighting the confirms of the 1 gallon pot I have used to keep it from consuming my entire flowerbed, lawn, house, etc. For the best potency, it is best to collect mint right before they start to flower and first thing in the morning when…
There is more than one way to harvest seeds sure can grow your own but there is also another option. Use seeds someone else grew by buying them at a grocery store or farmers market. Have you ever have bought potatoes, sweet potatoes or yams and noticed sprouts coming out of them, dig a hole and plant them in the ground and in a few weeks you may have…
Researchers at Cambridge University have come up with a method to significantly reduce the cost of creating LED light bulbs. LEDs use gallium nitride and requires being grown on sapphire wafers. The new technique allows growth on silicon wafer reducing the cost significantly from $28 to $3 per bulb. The big news for the bulbs is they use 12 times less energy that incandescent bulbs, last for 60 years,…
Here in the Seattle area we are, as you say, latitudelly challenged. We are fortunately to have the Pacific Ocean to give us mild winters and summers though our distance from the equator provides our plants with less intense light and a relatively short growing season for summer crops. One in particular difficult summer crop are peppers. This is important because one of the major exports of my garden…
Last year over at The Genteel Recessionista their trellis made of twine rotted away. This year they chose to use wire salvaged from some old CAT-5 Ethernet cables to create a new one. They were able to create two trellises for about a dollar each which in my opinion look great.
I enjoy when I can be rewarded by overcoming mother nature, so when my 6 year old mentioned she wanted to figure out why strawberries will not grow in the winter for her science project I couldn’t have been prouder. Once she determined the reason was because it was colder and the sun wasn’t up as much, she suggested using lights to help them get more light and…
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That is the craziest thing I have ever seen.
He must be really hungry.
He’s having a great feast! Look at all that slug slime!
Give him a little salt for his dinner!
Onion leaves too – just picked a couple of hundred off mine tonight – you can even hear the so and so’s munching as the hollow leaves amplify the sound!!!!!!!!!!!
Gosh, what a pciture. Cheeky little thing. I agree with the above post- a bit of salt for dinner should help him keep his hunger at bay 🙂
Forget about the “don’t like the bulbs under the ground” part! I found a slug on two different bulbs as I was digging them up this evening!
fionasfarm, Were they consuming the bulbs or just making a house in the roots?
What’s up, I check your blogs like every week. Your story-telling style is awesome, keep up the good work!