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I just hosed down our raised bed square foot garden with EIGHT, a wonderful spray that kills ants and other bugs, but is safe for our animals and plants. I will do it over and over again before finishing my harvest of our onions, since the minute I pull out a weed or onion, they swarm all over the place. :0(
The clean up of the garden will be a many-step-many-day enterprise.
- I will harvest the onions first, armed with more EIGHT spray, if needed.
- Then I’ll pull the dead plants and weeds.
- I will mix a BUNCH of fresh Mel’s Mix and keep making and distributing more until all six planter boxes are full to the brim.
- I will replace broken boards that hold the hoses and sprinklers, plus run wire criss-cross fashion to delineate square feet in one box that needs it.
- Finally, I will cover each planter with a tarp, probably holding them with bungie cords.
Hopefully, this will result in nice, fresh, happy planter boxes without a lot of weed growth to welcome my spring efforts to get my garden planted.
My 2-gallon sprayer seems to be giving out, though, so we have it on Monday’s list to get a replacement at our local hardware store.
It’s a really lovely day to be murdering fire ants!. :0)
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