I let the weeds grow around my square foot boxes and I paid for it - in lettuce. One of my squares had a couple heads of lettuce eaten down to the dirt. I also saw slug trails on my kale. I wasn't too worried about the weeds around my boxes until I pulled up one of the taller weeds and spotted a slug resting beneath it. As I started to pull up more weeds, I found more slugs.
Hopefully pulling up the weeds will solve some of my slug problems. I also laid some crushed egg shells around the lettuce squares.
The forecast today was for rain but the morning was beautiful - even hot! The chickens loved their fresh weeds - after some scratching, some of them settled into the weeds to cool off (I think).
Today there was a creature in the garden that I've never seen in the gardens before...and I've never seen one in the day either.
A little bat! I thought it might be hurt because it just flew a short distance and then laid in the dirt. But, it eventually flew away.
Chickens like to eat the little slugs. And, I hope you didn't touch the bat!!! They should NOT be lying around in your garden during the day.
ReplyDeleteSo, it was probably kinda cute but also maybe sick or injured. As a Mom, I have to ask if you think you should eat anything that he was touching?
The slugs were mostly big slugs...but I still threw them in the chicken coop with the weeds.
ReplyDeleteThe bat wasn't in my garden. Also, I didn't see him touch any plants, just dirt :)
Oh, good---thought it was in your vegetables!
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