Fleeing The Nematodes
(Garden)
A couple of years ago the nematodes got so bad in my back garden that I tried planing tomatoes in garbage cans full of sterile potting soil, set on bricks so the little critters couldn’t swim up into the new soil.
I hardly got any tomatoes that year, and considered it a failed experiment until I found at season end that the soil in the bottom of the cans was really soggy because I hadn’t created nearly enough drainage.
Maybe I’ll give it another shot this year, now that we’re possibly hours away from the advent of actual spring around here. I still have eight garbage cans with no lids, that aren’t good for much else than dumping dirt into to grow ‘maters.
I got a great deal from Home Depot when I informed them I was willing to take all the lidless garbage cans they had in stock – at a deep discount. Well, it would be a great deal if I could find something to do with those lidless cans.
The winter plant room, where I usually raise heirloom tomato and pepper and eggplant seedlings, was taken over by plumeria seedlings and cuttings this year. I have been bitten by the plumeria bug. How badly? I’ll save that for another post.
→ B.Dunn, Mar 11, 2008, 03 31 pm
