Gardening

As a gardener seeing the little seedlings finally poking out of the dirt is literally the best feeling 😍

These are marigolds,  I've heard they are good companion plants as they deter pests,  has anyone had luck with this?

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Hmm. The grasshoppers that are my biggest garden pest love marigolds more than anything and eat them down to shreds of doilies, so I guess maybe the marigolds  act like sacrificial lambs that save some grazing on my other plants...

when we lived in Oregon slugs & snails were the primary culprits. In Utah it is so dry they aren't a big issue at all. I have hordes of grasshoppers in the garden though.

Oh nooooo lol,  I did leave a ton of weeds around my plants last year trying to create a *sacrifice barrier*. 

slugs are by far the worst pest for us I hate them so much 😭 so many during spring when the seedlings are tiny and weak