You do not give up on Garden Club! The second rule of Garden club? You do NOT give up on Garden Club! Gardening is hard, y'all! You've basically got everything stacked against you: weather, soil, a zillion insects that want to come and eat your freshly planted seedlings... so it can be rather tempting to... Continue Reading →
Putting Up the Poultry Coop
As previously mentioned, we have a severe slug (and less severe snail) problem. It's beyond what we can combat on our own. We'd have to empty a tonne of slug pellets out there to get on top of the situation, if we went that route (which isn't suitable, since we have a dog and children).... Continue Reading →
If you can’t beat them, redirect them?
We have the most insane number of slugs in our yard. When I go out at night and shine a light around, the entirety of the backyard glitters with... well, with slug slime. And a bit of snail slime, but I've seriously curtailed their numbers by simply picking them up and tossing them out of... Continue Reading →