Today, the snails have been so prolific that not only have I lost any hope of growing vegetables this year, but they have actually eaten all the flowers off my crocuses, and the broom on the terrace looks like it’s wearing hair gel. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, our neighbors have the most beautiful garden, with hundreds of crocuses in spring. Actually, that was our former neighbors. The new owners have since dug up all the flower bulbs, thrown them out, and replaced them with some lovely decorations made of old car tires. FML
Today, it's been a few weeks since I took up gardening to relax, caring for my plants, and they finally started blooming. Excitedly, I posted a picture online, only to have a friend tell me that my "beautiful flowers" are actually weeds. Apparently, I have a talent for cultivating the unwanted. FML
Today, the lawn I've been devoting all my efforts to saving from a nasty grub infestation isn't going to make it, but apparently the grass I noticed growing in my gutters is doing just fine. FML.
Today, I spent the afternoon transplanting a whole bunch of corn seedlings that sprouted, even turning over the new soil with compost and fertiliser. While watering them in, I realised they're actually all just weeds. FML
Today, I left outside a bowl of fine herbs I had painstakingly grown from seeds, so they could get some sun. What did they get instead? My upstairs neighbor's filthy soapy water from washing her balcony. Three quarters of the seedlings are now dead. FML
Today, three weeks after I finally tried my hand at gardening by planting a bunch of herbs and was so proud of my work, I found out that I had actually been watering weeds this whole time. My herbs were actually the things I was trying to eliminate. FML
Today, I went into my kitchen after placing a line of salt across the floor in front of the back door the night before to ward off slugs that keep getting in, only to find 12 idiotic slugs dead and shrivelled up, leaving a horrible gooey mess. I don't know why I expected any intelligence from them. FML
Today, I took a big sniff of a flower in my garden. I spent the rest of the morning blowing little bugs out of my nose. FML
Today, after already living with two wasps' nests, as well as gnats that plague our flower pots, we've also discovered moths in our pantry, who've ruined all of the food. FML
Today, I bit into a piece of homegrown lettuce from my garden. Apparently, I'm not the only one to enjoy my produce, because I took a bite out of a small caterpillar. FML
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Yudith 28
Can you eat them with garlic butter?
TwoBytesCarley 27
I’m guessing you’ve tried all the different approaches to protecting your crop from snails such as putting a salt barrier, planting lavender or mint around your garden and adding physical barriers like sharp eggshells or gravel. I know how disappointing that can be. Here in Alberta we mostly have to contend with rabbits (who get my lilies every year no matter what I do!), aphids, spider mites and slugs. Hope you get some relief from the snails soon!
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Lost Reggie 22
Apple snails?
Yudith 28
Can you eat them with garlic butter?
TwoBytesCarley 27
I’m guessing you’ve tried all the different approaches to protecting your crop from snails such as putting a salt barrier, planting lavender or mint around your garden and adding physical barriers like sharp eggshells or gravel. I know how disappointing that can be. Here in Alberta we mostly have to contend with rabbits (who get my lilies every year no matter what I do!), aphids, spider mites and slugs. Hope you get some relief from the snails soon!
dreams2383 20
Amazon has garden nets that will fix this problem