My garden has a lot of other inhabitants in it, and I’ve been pretty pleased about that up until now. It’s good to have worms in the soil and bees in the flowers. The slaters are eating up all the dead stuff and haven’t had a go at my vegetables yet, so they can stay, and although I’m not really keen on spiders, I can see that they have a place.
Spider in the front garden
But some cat has been using an empty patch of my vegetable garden as a toilet and I’m not having it. No cats allowed! And that’s not all. I have caterpillars eating my cabbages and broccoli and a possum has been nibbling on the leaves of my trees (and crapping all over the front porch). So, I’m fighting back.
Devastation wrought by caterpillars
I got some Skunk Shot cat and dog repellent for the garden. It reeks, which I guess is the point, and so far it has kept unwelcome critters off my vegetables. I also got some Derris Dust for the cabbages and have been getting up early once a week to apply that. I’ve seen the odd white butterfly floating about, but the cabbages are looking much better. I got the council to drop a possum trap off, but the little hobgoblin hasn’t shown its face since the trap arrived. Hopefully this is the end of the interlopers.
A bee
