AI6YR BenMar 1
Building up the sides of an existing garden bed, and putting on a squirrel discouraging top of some sort. Calendula, arugula, a few assorted edible weeds. Original bottom is pallet wood. Two current issues here I am fixing: not deep enough for soil, squirrels. Last year I walked out here and there were 6 squirrels UNDER the squirrel "proof" cover. #gardening
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Way too hot now, so deployed the heatwave tarp (metallic woven mesh, aluminet). Let's air through but reduces UV and sunlight. #aluminet #heatwaves
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First Monarch of the season. It apparently hatched out inside a squirrel excluding garden bed, had to rescue it. Yes, it's on my hat, lol. #butterfly #Monarch #gardening
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Garden bed. Needs a lot more soil, and sides. Arugula has gone bitter, too hot. #gardening
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Sunlight levels outside the aluminet (20.5), in shade (17), under aluminet (19). Don't know what that is in lumens or percentages. #shade
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Massive, ugly grubs in the soil here. These hatch out to become green beetles.. (apparently too big to be Japanese beetles... they are ugly though... and the big green beetles fly at your face when they hatch lol) . #gardening
Show threadDa_GutMar 1

@ai6yr

I’ll see your so-called large grub and raise you this. Which I found in Georgia. I was thinking it was a grub of a Hercules beetle which are native to Georgia. But since it was in a bag of red mulch from Home Depot, which had been busted open for several months, it might have been an Asian beetle which has been appearing in those and has similar sized grubs.

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@Da_Gut WOW that this is MASSSIVE
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