Bad Grub Kit

No...we aren't giving out bad grubs. Instead I'll show you my favorite Catch A Bad Grub/Bug method.

What you Need:
1 pair of hands
1 or 2 newspaper bags (or gloves if they are handy)
1 plastic container with a lid
Some bad critters

Put the newspaper bag on one or both of your hands

if you can't stand to touch the bad critters.

Reach for the critter you don't like

Put the bad critter in the container that has a lid

Put a lid on the container so the critter doesn't

escape when you aren't looking

Take the critters home and freeze them to kill them. Or put them in a blue bird feeder so the birds will eat them. I personally like the bluebird feeder by the birdbath because more birds go to it and the bugs get eaten faster.

 

Just keep an empty container stuffed with several empty newspaper bags in your "go the garden" work bag and you'll never find you don't have something to pick the bad critters up with. Or worse yet, let them escape you after you picked them up.

Welcome New Gardeners

Welcome to all the New Gardener's for 2013! Sunday afternoon was a gorgeous afternoon to spend at the garden getting oriented and meeting some of the current gardeners.

Don't hesitate to ask questions - someone will know or find the answer. I'm still asking lots of questions myself. In fact, I don't know any gardener that knows everything!

I know there are several new gardeners not pictured but don't worry, sooner or later, your moment of fame will come when I ask you to help me stage a photograph for the blog.

Change to Combination Locks

On March 1st ALL the combinations will change so that all the locks for the gates, water faucets and the shed will have the same combination.

 

NO, this is NOT the new combination

 

Be sure to scramble the combination each time you relock any of the locks. Yes, you have to move the tumblers more but it means that the lock won't accidentally slide open after you leave the garden. And yes, this has happened a number of times.

If you don't have the new combination or have forgotten what it will be, be sure and email Carol before March 1st.