Now onto the reason for this blog, weeds and nematodes. I am just about certain there was grass seed, at least some, in the dirt I had delivered. 😠 2 days ago I was out weeding the garden, I didn't start counting right at the beginning, but ended up pulling 420 weeds out that evening. Yesterday I went out again and pulled another 340 weeds! 😱 Now, given, these are tiny, sometimes single blades of grass, but I go out each day and pull everything I see so they don't get crazy and overrun my garden. And, obviously, they would be doing that rather quickly if I wasn't out there thinning them out! I didn't have problems with grass in my soil last year, just seeds from the trees that sit over the garden. So I'm irritated to have introduced new weeds into my beds. I'll just keep pulling them though, because I'm trying not to use chemicals on my garden this year. So if you need me, that's where I'll be, out pulling weeds.
As for the nematodes, I noticed when I was planting my strawberries that there were grubs in my dirt! 😡😡 There's no landscape matting on the bottom of box 1, so they could have come up that way. There's also native soil in box 1, so I could have introduced them to that box myself. Either way, I didn't notice them in box 2 when Avery and I were planting carrots, so I can only assume they're only in one box. I did some research online and found that a non-chemical way to deal with grubs is using beneficial nematodes. These are microscopic worms that naturally occur in soil and prey on various bad insects. Anyway, long story short, I bought some and put them in all 5 of my garden boxes. They keep a lot of pests away. I just hope the kill all the grubs in box 1 because they are super gross. We'll see.
That's all I have for now. I need to get going on my errands. Have a wonderful day!
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