Adele VS. Slugs
The garden is now in, for the most part. We bought some seedlings yesterday and I also planted some seeds. Now is the worst part of gardening - the waiting! Hopefully most of it should be up in the next two weeks. At least I have the seedlings to look at to give me hope.
So far we have four tomato plants, plus I think ten seedlings that planted themselves from last year. Tomatoes, anyone? I planted eight broccoli and eight cauliflower seedlings. It is really too late to do them by seed, plus the slugs attack them like crazy and destroy them if they are too small. Broccoli is tricky b/c one day it isn't ready and the next it flowers. Then it tastes bitter. You really have to keep an eye on them. Once the cauliflowers start to grow you have to tie the leaves up otherwise the cauliflower will be yellow, not white. Okay, enough gardening tips! I planted four rows of pea seeds and I think eight rows of bean seeds (two different kinds). I also planted a whole section of lettuce and spinach. There is nothing like going out to the garden to cut a fresh salad. Yummy! It lasts forever in a plastic bag too b/c it hasn't been sitting for weeks in a warehouse or grocery store. Plus it has great color b/c it wasn't picked too early! I can't wait!
I still have a little space left, but am thinking about what I want to plant there. I may wait and plant some more of what I already did so that I have alternating crops. We'll see.
I already spread the slug and snail killer so they don't eat up all my seedlings. I hate those little buggers! Did you know they migrate? They can sense (must have evolved, right?) where the good vegetation is - i.e. my garden. I can always tell which little plants are vegetables or weeds because they eat the vegetable plants and ignore the weeds. I think I might have a bean plant from last year too and the main reason I can tell is b/c the slugs have gone after it already. My grandma swears that beer in a tuna can also gets rid of slugs, but there is a slight problem with that remedy! 
Anyway, I'll keep you posted on my garden progress!
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