So, after a few weeks of seeing absolutely nothing come up, out of my whole crop of basil, tomatoes, squash, and beet-root, I talked with a permaculture friend and he knew exactly what it was. He said that it had nothing to do with my soil or me doing anything wrong, but that what was happening was that as soon as my plants sprouted up, probably in the night sometime, snails would come and eat them up. So by the time I got there it looked like nothing had happened at all.
I'm debating over methods of warfare to use. I don't think I have it in me to use salt. And I can't use snail pellets because my friend's cat could eat them. I've found some homemade recipes, but haven't picked one yet. So far my first step is to gather a bunch of plastic bottles that I'll use as walls around my plants. I started with my new sunflowers that I transplanted yesterday.
I think that these snails might be symbolic of things in my life like procrastination, which I can see, but think that it won't be a problem. And it eats away at all these things that would've been sprouting in my life, but get's killed before I even know it's there. Hmmm, I don't think I'll expand much more than that, because it could bore you, but as usual I'm finding parallels.
There have been even more big openings through some generous friends who are want to support and who even have extra supplies that they want to give me. One friend is going to be giving me more seeds (including corn) as well as a worm farm, which will be really good for my garden as well as for learning. I've been offered so much that I'm just about at the point of having to turn some of it down. I start gardening for that handicap organization on Thursday, so I'm getting excited for that. Looks like I'll be able to do it for 2 to 3 different homes, but one at a time of course. We'll see how that goes.
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