Every 14 Days When I Reapply Deadline

Bob Bauer

March 25, 2017 (Last Updated: March 06, 2023) | Reading Time: 1 minutes

March 25, 2017

Every 14 days when I reapply Deadline I'm rewarded with another batch of dead slugs the next morning. It draws them out of the mulch with its attractant, and kills them, before they smell the transplants. I found one inch and a half size slug on top of a cantaloupe transplant surrounded by a solid line of Deadline. That was discouraging..

Either they are building an immunity to the poison or he climbed up there to die. When I lifted the board covering my direct seeding of lettuce there were tiny baby slugs and snails under it. I think this battle will be going on long into spring..

March 26, 2017

" April showers bring May flowers" has never been one of my favorite sayings. We have enough flowers in March for me. If all the excess water was going into the aquafir that would be good, but I see it all running down the creeks, to the rivers and the ocean. A third of my garden looks like a rice patty. If we have more rain this year it will be very unwelcome. The best thing to do in a wet soggy ground garden is to stay out of it..

Smashing down the soil is unhealthy for it and all the benificials in it. My second planting of peas has not come up even though they are planted on higher ground and have a trench above them to drain the water off. I think they drowned like my first planting did. Neither the pumpkins nor butternut squash have germinated either but that may be temperature related..

March 27, 2017

I got to thin my double row of radishes today with the warm sun shining on my back. Felt good. With my kneepads on I didn't want to get up so I crawled along and weeded for awhile too. I also got to pick ten 8" asparagus stalks and a gallon size zip lock bag each of lettuce, chard and kale. It was a good day..

It felt more like gardening and less like yard maintenance. We got some ground drying out, pollinators about and I saw heat waves in the distance. A little sunshine sure cheered this gardener up..

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