Mary, Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow?

I'm obsessed, my garden has wrapped me around it's weed infested landscape, and I can't help myself!

So as per my previous post, you know I planted the first vegie patch plot. All was going well for about the first 4 days, until one morning I came to check my little green babies only to find a number of them had disappeared! I couldn't work it out to start with, they we're totally gone. Not just a leaf or two nibbled on but gone! After some consultation with my Dad we decided to check the plants at night to see what was getting into them.

So armed with torches we ventured out. At first we couldn't see anything eating the plants, but once we looked at the rest of the soil we could see lots of tiny movements coming from crickets! And not just one or two crickets but LOTS of the little fuckers.

So to the Internet (at annoying dial up speed), and we read how garlic and chilli mixed with white oil and sprayed on the plants will put the little guys off. So we put the lot in a spray bottle and off I went to marinade my plants. So far it seems to have worked as nothing else has been eaten.

Yesterday late arvo, early evening I also planted some dwarf snow peas and some multi coloured silverbeet, along with more thyme and marigolds which also help but bugs off.

I just can't wait for everything to grow big and strong so I can eat it!! :D