Planting Summer Squash in June and Other Frugal Gardening Tips
June 26, 2010 by Katelyn
Filed under Frugal Mom
I just planted a second crop of summer squash in June. June? Yup. June. I had some seeds left over and just read an article that says squash borers won’t harm squash you plant later. This way, I can be completely organic still. If the squash borers got my older plants, new ones can just take over. I hope.
Slugs and flies are yummy treats when you're a duck.
Another tip? Chickens (and ducks) like slugs. Ick. They shake their beaks to get the slime off, but they gobble them up. I can hardly bear to watch, but I guess it is no worse than us eating snails and oysters. I don’t have any big slugs in the garden anymore and they really have to search for the little ones. (I also don’t have any lettuce. It was about to bolt, so I didn’t chase the hens off when they started pecking it.) They are also huge fans of pill bugs, but seem to avoid beetles. I still had to pick potato beetles and Japanese beetles off my plants this year.
The last tip for today is to recycle your cardboard right into your garden. I put a layer down under raised beds before I fill them with soil and compost. I also line paths between the beds with cardboard pieces and cover them with straw or gravel to make them easy to walk on.
Hmm. Frugal gardening and organic gardening have a lot in common, don’t they? All these things also make it possible for me to avoid either pesticides or herbicides.
