~ Gardening

* Highway roadside in for a surprise.

I can never recall a spring when
there have been so many slugs. I
know it has been damper than
usual, which snails and slugs just
adore, but that can’t account for
such numbers of them.

This time I have again lost all
the carrots, the second planting for
them, and after three seedings of
summer tumips, (every sprout now

@ devoured), I am giving up on them
entirely.
At this stage I am finding it
increasingly difficult to stay with
organic methods. By this I mean
using things such as beer, crushed
egg shells, and the past day or so, a
teaspoon of yeast, and a teaspoon
of white sugar dissolved in one
cup of water (to replace the beer in
the saucers).
I’ve even been drying egg shells,
crushing them and spreading them
around things such as baby squash
plants. All of these work, but not
well enough to eliminate such a
horrendous problem.
I’m going to replant the carrots,
@ but if slugs eat these as they arrive
on the scene, I swear I'm going
back to slug bait! It will be
covered of course, to protect both
® the bran, and any birds or animals
that might be tempted by the smell
of metaldehyde. I really am des-
perate!
Yesterday I dug up a mound of
slug eggs about the size of a golf
ball, and then when separating two
four-inch pots I found six tiny
slugs snoozing between them. It’s
like some sort of plague!
Have I talked to you about this
before? I have an idea, based on
the story of Johnny Appleseed,
who many years ago walked across
America catrying with him a sack
of dried appleseeds.
As he travelled, every once-in-a-
while, he would open his sack and
throw out a few appleseeds. Now,
so the story goes, all across Amer-
ica, along the paths he travelled,
are appletrees growing.
> They are beautiful beyond belief

in the spring when the flowers are
like pink clouds on the branches,
and then in the fall they are laden
with quantities of welcome ripe
fruit.

‘As he fravelled,
every once-in-a-
- while, he would
open his sack and
throw out a few
appleseeds. Now,
so the sfory goes,
all across
& America, along
the paths he
travelled, are
appletrees
growing’

Motor stolen

A two horsepower Mariner out-
board motor was reported stolen
from the V2 dock at North Saa-
nich Marina June 4, Sidney RCMP

@ said.

The theft occurred sometime
between May 27 and June 2,
police said. Those with informa-

tion about this crime are asked to
call pole or CameS toga.

I love the whole idea of planting
something that will live long after
we have gone on to whatever
reward (or punishment) is ours.

For this reason I am collecting
flower seeds from our garden, and
recycling all my old seed packages,
and as “himself” and I drive up
the Island I am going to scatter
flower seeds on any bare bank, or

weedy roadside where “his nibs”
will slow down, and just wait and
see what will happen next spring.

On a recent trip we saw the most
heavenly blue lupin, simply mil-
lions of sassy white daisies flounc-
ing in the ditches, masses of old-
fashioned yellow broom, the odd
tangle of wild yellow honey-
suckle, buttercups by the billion,
plus lots of flowers whose names I
know not, all of them volunteering
their beauty free of charge, just for
the fun of it!

I know this may seem a bit
simple to a lot of you, but, hon-
estly, what harm can adding to this
beauty cause? Who can it possibly
hurt?

Give me fifty-seven thousand
reasons why this is NOT a good
idea, and I might... just might...
not do it, otherwise you are stuck
with roadsides full of daisies, but-
tercups, wild broom and honeysuc-
kle, plus cosmos, calendula, pop-
pies, nasturtiums, larkspur, forget-
me-nots, bachelor buttons, godetia,
lavatera, marigolds, and lots and
lots of lupins (not necessarily
blue!)

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