I went out this afternoon with every intention of planting carrots, chard, and some lettuce seeds. Somehow I wound up with a wheelbarrow full of bermuda grass runners and jackson’s vine rhizomes. Seems like I’ll never get rid of them all, but I had to dig this stuff out before going any further into my 2008 garden plantings. Just had to!

I raked back the mulch and worked down a 20 or so foot patch of garden pulling up yards and yards of wanna be vines and lawn. Uncovered some great soil to work back into the beds (herbs, asparagus, sugar peas). Found about 20 grubs while I was doing all this. I know they are ugly, but what they do is far worse than they look. They want to eat the roots of my plants: veggies, roses, and grass alike. And then they would mature in to Japanese Beetles no less, further devouring my roses. Sluggishly flying around like kamikazee planes while munching up my beautiful buds.

I squished them all. Unfortunately, one squished a little later than I expected – right on my face and neck (ugh!) – staining my t-shirt. That’s what work clothes are for I suppose.

Score-
me: 20
grubs: 1

Not bad.