It has been raining a great deal lately. The days go from raining and overcast to sweltering and humid, the plants in the garden absolutely love it! Something is working right because our tomatoes, leeks, strawberries, cabbages and mint plants are nearly doubled in size since we planted them! Today I spotted tiny tomatoes on one of the peace-vine tomato plants and I got so excited I had to take some pictures!!
Yesterday my hubby and I bought some marigolds as a repellent to pests, we'll see how they work! So far we haven't had much of a problem with any pests - merely the slugs that love our strawberries. To every single luscious, ripe strawberry I find, a hungry slug has found it first. Since we are going organic we had to find a more natural way to deal with this issue. The unlikely answer to our slug problem came in the form of a can...of beer! We took an old pie tin and filled it with some beer, this we put in the strawberry patch overnight, the next day it was full of dead, bloated slugs! Wow! Perhaps this will deter them from eating our strawberries... Apparently they can't resist the smell of beer!
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| tomatoes! |
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| cabbages and leeks! |
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| strawberries! |
- Night Owl Gal
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