I'll tell you what's likely to happen. I'll end up spending too much money shopping, that's what I'll do. Maybe I'll single-handedly revive the economy! In fact, it's already started. I've been looking for an affordable salt mill and pepper mill set-- not a pepper mill and salt shaker. Mills. Both. I finally found these:
I've been searching for years.
The only other homefront news I think I have is that we have a tomato growing. I was starting to think the 2 liter bottle thing was a failure...and I still think it mostly is. We should have bought patio varieties and/or planted them in 5 gallon buckets and hung them from the carport. We'll try that next year.
In the meantime:
Now, if we can just keep the slugs off the strawberries, we'll be golden. We've had a constant stream of blossoms on the strawberry plants, but the slugs and snails just keep eating them! Since I sprayed the aphids away, I haven't seen them come back; however, the slugs are more than picking up the slack. So I'm gonna research some organic repellent. Since we tend to want to eat our own crops with just a rinse of water, I'd prefer to not spray chemicals if I can help it. Any tried and true solutions are welcome!
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Ducks do a pretty good job on the slugs, as coincidentally I just blogged about.
(Normally, of course, one doesn't have to bring the slugs to the ducks via one's dinner table.)
I think I read somewhere that if you put a pan with beer in your garden (hopefully keeping the dog from drinkig it) the slugs will crawl in that and drown leaving your plants alone...
Alas, I cannot spell, that should have been drinking... also the pan should be a pie tin, not a saucepan... SIGH
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