This morning I got out of bed quite early (more than an hour before my alarm). It allowed me to go outside and do some gardening before it got too hot. I was planning to weed a bit, but that hasn't happened yet. There is a reason why.

I'll give you a hint here, it relates to a 4 letter S-word. (I've put photos under spoilers so those who are grossed out don't have to look)

So I was out early enough when the greenhouse was still a bit moist from the dew. Apparently that's the time that those little (and not so little) S-beasties hold their church service. Or at least they congregate together like crazy. So I spent half an hour picking them off the greenhouse and putting them into my trusty orange gardening bucket! There were at least 4 times more outside than inside.  I decided that with so many of them around my much loved plants, that those besties must really love me. Like totally adore me. It is NOT reciprocated!

To get my revenge (some of them had been attempting to eat my seedlings again!) I decided to remove one of their compounds that they call home.

It looked a bit like this when taken out of the ground

Yes, that is a whole overflowing wheelbarrow of leek (4 of the 20ish rows we started with) that is trying to flower. It's forbidden for leek to flower in my garden this year because I'm trying to get some red onion seed this year (mine is all finished, not sprouting well). We have some red onions that regrew in December and I transplanted them last month and they now have flower stalks so that should be good hopefully. They looked like this a few days ago. It's a bad photo sorry.

Anyway to after I did the first cleaning of the leek, my fresh compost pile is nearly full up (oh crap!) and I still need to wash it all, remove the stalks, slice it, wash it again, dry it and bag it so we can freeze it. argh!

In the meantime some of the asshole beasts escaped and I found that my beertrap caught 6 overnight. apparently they were out in force.

I did get to yell at my bf this morning "omg, you're going to freak when you see what I just caught!". I guess that was an added bonus. I'm hoping they aren't now plotting their revenge against me, because it's nearly time to put some more seedlings outside.