Now is the time to start thinking about gardening for this year.

[brycen]

Anton ... i was picturing you as the kid in charlie and the chocolate factory

You mean Violet Beauregarde, who chews the 3-course dinner gum and turns into a giant blueberry.

Bryce in Utah

[AntonLee]

if that were to happen I would be afraid I'd eat myself

[porcupine kate]

Something has been eating my tasty leafy greens in my garden and it is not me.  They decimated my spinach, beets, radishes, lettuce in a matter of two days.

I wasn't sure what was eating them.  I kept looking for slugs and digging around for cutworms and didn't see any till this morning. 
I found both.  Yesterday I had cleared out all the damaged stuff and replanted seeds in those places. (don't worry I rotated crops) I set out two beer traps and caught 2 slugs in one of them.  I also found a beautiful romaine lettuce seedling about 5 inches tall completely devoured except for a few bits of the leaves.  This time digging around in the dirt near where the plant was I discovered a very fat and happy black cutworm.

I had put out diatomaceous earth late last week before all the rain.  That slowed down the carnage but it didn't last since we had so many days of rain.  So today I went out and covered all three beds in diatomaceous earth.  My garden looks like it has a weird dandruff problem.  I hope this works.  I sprinkled it all over the ground on all three beds and was careful not to get it on any of the bigger plants with flowers starting to bud.  I do not want to kill the bees.

[Russell Kanning]

some of our rhubarb has been eaten by bugs
our greens are amazing right now with all the rain
we saw a big black bear headed for the far garden today .... he might be the one that eats the blackberries before me

[AntonLee]

I would fight a bear for my blueberries.

[Pat K]

Burp- Antons with blue berries are delicious says local Bear.

[Tom Sawyer]

Shit... Anton is bigger than that bear... I think Anton will eat him.   

[AntonLee]

Never underestimate the rage within.  My rage within might come alive at the sight of someone molesting my blueberries.  I can picture myself as a fat lilywhite Rambo crouched in a corner saying "they drew first blood not me"

[Kat Kanning]

You need a new flag, pirate themed, "Don't tread on me blueberries"

[AntonLee]

[porcupine kate]

I love the flag. 
Hang it at your campsite at Porc Fest.

Just be glad that cutworms do not eat blueberries.  I found 2 more of the little bastards today.
Good news I also found several little tomatoes forming on the early girl and the Roma plants.

[Scott Roth]

Nice, Anton.  I want one of those.

[porcupine kate]

You need a new flag, pirate themed, "Don't tread on me blueberries"

Would that make him Captain Bluefingers?

[AntonLee]

you assume I eat them with my hands and not fill a hopper and strap it to my head like a feed bag.

what's sad is watching me at a pick  your own.  Picture a guy knocking over old ladies and kids to get to a foul ball at Fenway Park.

[MaineShark]

you assume I eat them with my hands and not fill a hopper and strap it to my head like a feed bag.

what's sad is watching me at a pick  your own.  Picture a guy knocking over old ladies and kids to get to a foul ball at Fenway Park.

I think I should tell you that there are some blueberries under this stack of rocks I need moved.

Joe