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.
Well turns out the bulbs I planted last fall were tulips which came up this week, hopefully the snow we got yesterday/today (not supposed to happen here) does not kill them off.
Here is one more component for "Project Everbearing" which requires the ability to toggle a 120V power source using my PC. Now there are a few interesting applications for this, home automation, music synced Christmas display, or just the nerd factor of being able to say I can turn on my coffee maker from your web enabled phone. Whatever your need, hopefully with these instructions you can do this…
Though I have made some significant changes to the grow box controller, the actual grow box has undergone some minor but important changes over the past few months. Automated watering Now I must say this one is pretty darn simple. Though I will be planning on a slightly more complicated hydroponic setup later I decided to start with a very easy bottom watering technique. Just take a regular old…
Unfortunately I only have one compost bin which I continuously add materials to, so I never have a complete “batch” of compost at one given time. In order to be able to filter out the finished compost from the non-composted material I created a soil sifter (sieve) I checked out soil sifters online but didn’t find anything that I liked so I decided to make one myself. I went…
This site was practically started because of my oldest daughters science fair project Why Don’t Strawberries Grow in the Wintertime? Now with my youngest in kindergarten she was very excited to have a science fair project of her own, which should be pretty obvious from the picture above. With no influence from me she decided on answering the question if smaller seeds will sprout faster. These days science fairs…
I came across this great new design and thought I would share. The inspiration is to provide a cheap way of capturing rainwater for developing countries. This would be a great way to prevent some water bottles from going into landfills but also a space saving way to capture some rainwater without requiring the large footprint or cost that rain barrel(s) can take up. No word on these going…
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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!