osprey94's Blog

beds are PLANTED!
May 30, 2007 | 8:54 PM PST
Tags: ants , earwigs , strawberries

This weekend (gosh am I behind on this blog!) I planted... broccoli, dill, marigold, spinach, arugula, lemon and regular cucumbers, 3 heirloom tomatoes, carrots, bush beans, beets, chard, OH and 2 rows of corn. I liked divaqs idea about bay leaves keeping earwigs away from plants. Didn't you talk about that in one of your blogs? (See me assuming you're reading my blog? ) We had such a *shudder* huge earwig problem w/ our corn the first time we tried it that we've passed on growing corn since then. I despise earwigs. Don't know why. Bugs don't usually bother me that much. Actually, fly eggs, lice and tics make my scalp prickle and my skin crawl, but that's it. That and earwigs. Loads and loads of earwigs hiding out in the husks when I shuck those suckers. Falling out and crawling everywhere. Dear lord help me. Ugh. Ummm...what was I saying? Oh yes! Bay leaves! I will try that this year because I LOVE corn on the cob. I got the "Candy Corn" variety. If the bay leaves don't work I'll just make D shuck them.

So, a side effect of trucking logs and chippings from the forest into our veggie garden is that now we have ants ALL OVER the garden! Big huge ones, little tiny ones, they're EVERYWHERE! Ah well, that's what we get!

The first few ripe strawberries were pecked all to hell before we could eat them. We keep telling ourselves we can share a FEW...but I'm a teeny tiny bit selfish with my strawberries. Anyone have any good covering ideas for rows of strawberries? Something cheap and easy that'll keep the birds off, but let us get to the berries relatively easily? If nothing exists, I'll let the birds have free reign and just take what I can get.

The other night a coyote got into our trash. He woke us up (our trash can sits not too far away one floor down from our open bedroom window) at around 2 am. It was a full moon, so we could ID him. He ran away when he heard me whispering to D to get a flashlight. Very exciting! I haven't heard them howling yet this year, but I love that sound!

Ahhh, summer is right around the corner! Yipeeeeeeeeee!