More space, less slugs!

Here is a picture of the slug buffet remnants:

Clearly, it was a fabulous feast!

Removing the weeds from around the raised boxes and putting some crushed egg shells on the wooden dividers around the lettuce seems to have helped.  However, I did pull a couple small, whitish slugs off my lettuce yesterday.  There are some weeds between the boxes and the fence so I think I'll have to pull those and continue to reinforce my perimeters with crushed egg shells.

Most things are growing fabulously, though!  Here is a picture from yesterday (apologies for the blurriness, it's from my phone and I didn't notice when I took it):

The top right and left are two types of kale (lacinato and rainbow), middle are nasturtiums, bottom middle is spinach, beside it is lettuce.  The nasturtiums are blocking the view of more lettuce and radishes.


This week I put in some cucumbers and dill as well as a few more broccoli seeds and another patty pan squash plant.  I'm slightly concerned because I don't see a single soy bean plant emerging from the dirt and I planted them a couple (few?) weeks ago.  I haven't lost all hope - and haven't looked to see how long it takes them to sprout either.


In other news, after some discussion with my husband, we decided that we would like more garden space and decided to take on another plot!  I'll be able to start work on it within the next week and can't wait!  

Slug Homes

Apparently this is what a good slug home looks like:

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.