Another night, another earwig : Cast Iron Garden

I put petroleum jelly around the bases of the four test plants. I took pictures of two. I also covered the Brunswick cabbage again with a jar since it got eaten a lot last night when uncovered.

You can see the messy petroleum jelly right near dirt, at base of ground cherry stem. I took care to make sure no other parts of the plant were touching the ground.

Here’s the poblano. Its seed leaves (cotelydons) were touching the ground so I put the petroleum jelly above them.

While I was finishing up the other two plants in the earwig battle zone (raised bed 7), I noticed the newly planted William’s pride apple has flower buds. Wow! It might even get pollinated as the neighbors have a crabapple tree in bloom…

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Are you considering removing the mulch?

larksparrow says:

April 7, 2021 at 1:24 pm

Not right now because i don’t have anything to replace it with. Even adding cedar mulch, that would cost a lot of money.

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