The sun is shining!!!

Wow, it's gorgeous outside! I can't wait to get out there and plant! I know it's suppose to rain at some point, but I'll take the sunshine while I can get it.  We are hoping to thwart the slugs by getting the grass around the outside of the Main Garden Bed under control today.  Our plan is to drop the fence and both mow and cover with paper and wood chips the entire parameter of the garden.  I know the slugs love using the grass as a cover -I just can't always keep up with the mowing and weeding. Hopefully the wood chips will help keep the grass down and make the weeding easier to keep up with.  I am going to take a before and after picture so you can see what we are doing.  Then I will keep you posted on if the slugs are more under control.

Here are a few pictures of problems I have had and how we are combating them. This is a tomato plant that definitely needs nitrogen. We added Blood meal and it helped a lot.

       

This is a Zucchini plant with the same problem.  It was so yellow that it looked like a crookneck squash!! Honest it doesn't show here, but it glowed!! It is now a nice green after the blood meal application.  These are things that Paul Gautschi recommends in one of the videos I watched. At times, it is easy to think I have made a mistake going with the wood chips, but truthfully, I think its just going to take commitment and perseverance this first year and lots of prayer!!  After all, when I started this I pointed out to God that if it was going to work it would be up to Him because I needed all the help I could get.  So far he has guided it's progress and I'll trust Him to keep it going!  I'll post the after pictures later so you can see how well the blood meal and also fish emulsion worked. See you later.