Ants and spiders and slugs, oh my! [View all]

It's proving to be a very buggy year in the garden already. Good thing I'm largely over my arachnophobia b/c they are EVERYWHERE and in every size and color. The little ant hill between two of my pepper pots refuses to succumb to repeated sprinklings of diatomaceous earth and spews forth bazillions of the things in an every evening frenzy. And I can't tell you how many slugs I've accidentally touched and then been forced to smush. Eeeew.

We also had aphids for a bit, but the garlic spray seems to have taken care of them. Saw quite a few grasshoppers out and about this morning. I suspect they are the ones who've been munching on my morning glory seedlings.