Grubs in the Garden

Dalita has been thoroughly turning, amending and refreshing her garden bed to prepare it for spring planting. She has found quite a few grubs like the ones in this picture. I know it is easier to just fluff a little and then plant the new plants but these are undesirable grubs and need to come out.

There are two ways you can fluff your bed - with a shovel or digging fork while the dirt/soil stays in the bed or by putting a tarp down and taking all the soil out and then putting it back in.

While you are fluffing your soil, be sure and watch for all the pecans the squirrels planted this fall. If you don't remove the pecans now, you'll be removing baby pecan trees all spring and summer.

The BEST way to remove the grubs is by hand picking. If you use Sevin you will kill all your good bugs and critters like the earthworms which have hopefully started moving into your bed. Sevin is not organic at all and kills everything.

                  Thanks Dalita for sending me this picture to share with everyone.