"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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Jayne wrote:

I'm trying to decide on a spot for a vegetable garden - at the front of
my
house there is a small area of useless lawn in front of my kitchen
window,
next to the driveway.

Just one word of caution Jayne, wireworms! They live under grass and are a
menace in newly cultivated veg gardens. They tend to head straight for root
crops potatoes and carrotts being their speciality although they will also
eat through seedlings etc. We dug up our place last Autumn and left it for
the winter, put the chucks on it for a few weeks in late winter/early spring
and take the worms out as we find them. They have a five year (according to
research but I can be corrected on this) cycle and are a major pain! They
are reddish orange about an inch long and although a grub of the click
beetle look more like a worm. You can try baiting ie. placing skewered
potatoe pieces or carrott pieces about two inches down and taking them up
daily and removing the worms or just leave out the carrott and potatoe crops
for a year or two. We've gone ahead with everything despite the infestation
and will probably lose some of our crop to them but we reckon it'll help
clear them out sooner.

Shan